Listening to God

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Listeningto God
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Listeningto God

• The Psalm calls
• us to listen
• to God.

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What Does It mean toListen to God?
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What Does It mean toListen to God?

• Deuteronomy 527 You go near and hear all that
  the Lord our God may say, and tell us all
  
  that the Lord our God
  
  says to you, and we
  
  will hear and do it.

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What Does It mean toListen to God?

• I Samuel 39 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go,
  lie down and
  it shall
  be, if He calls
  
  you, that you must
  
  say, Speak, Lord,
  
  for Your servant
  
  hears.

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What Does It mean toListen to God?

• James 212 So speak and so do as those who
  will be judged
  
  by the law of liberty.

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Some People DontListen to God
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Some People DontListen to God

• Cain - Genesis 43,4

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Some People DontListen to God

• Cain - Genesis 43,4
• that Cain brought
  
  an offering of the
  
  fruit of the ground
  
  to the Lord And
  
  the Lord respected Abel and his offering.

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Some People DontListen to God

• Cain - Hebrews 114 - By faith Abel offered to
  God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain

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Some People DontListen to God

• Nadab and Abihu

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Some People DontListen to God

• Nadab and Abihu
• Leviticus 101 - Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons
  of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in
  it, put incense on it, and offered

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Some People DontListen to God

• Nadab and Abihu
• profane fire before the Lord, which He had not
  commanded them.

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Some People DontListen to God

• Matthew 158 -
• These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
  And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is
  far from Me.

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God Wants His Peopleto Listen and Obey
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God Wants His Peopleto Listen and Obey

• Romans 616 - Do you not know that to whom you
  present yourselves slaves to obey, you are
  
  the ones slave whom
  
  you obey, whether of
  
  sin leading to death or
  
  of obedience leading
  
  to righteousness?

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God Wants His Peopleto Listen and Obey

• Romans 617 But God be thanked that though you
  were slaves
  
  of sin, yet you obeyed
  
  from the heart that
  
  form of
  doctrine to
  
  which you were
  
  delivered.

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God Wants His Peopleto Listen and Obey

• Titus 31 Remind them to
  
  be subject to rulers and
  
  
  authority to obey, to
  
  be ready for every
  
  good work.

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God Wants His Peopleto Listen and Obey

• Hebrews 59 He became the author of eternal
  salvation
  
  to all who obey Him.

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What Are the Results WhenWe Fail to Listen to
God?
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What Are the Results WhenWe Fail to Listen to
God?

• Ananias - Acts 5

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What Are the Results WhenWe Fail to Listen to
God?

• II Thessalonians 18 in flaming fire taking
  vengeance on those who do not know God, and on
  those
  
  
  who do not obey
  the gospel of our
  
  Lord Jesus Christ.

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What Are the Results WhenWe Fail to Listen to
God?

• II Thessalonians 19 These shall be
  
  punished with
  
  everlasting
  destruction
  from
  the presence of the
  
  Lord and from the
  
  glory of His power.

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What Are the Results WhenWe Listen and Obey God?
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What Are the Results WhenWe Listen and Obey God?

• Ephesians 13 Blessed be the God and Father of
  our Lord
  Jesus Christ,
  who has
  blessed us with
  every
  spiritual blessing
  in
  the heavenly places
  
  in Christ.

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What Are the Results WhenWe Listen and Obey God?

• II Timothy 47-8
  
  I have fought the good fight, I have finished
  the race, I have kept the faith. Finally there is
  laid up for me the crown of righteousness,

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What Are the Results WhenWe Listen and Obey God?

• II Timothy 47-8 which the Lord, the righteous
  Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me
  only but also to all who have loved His
  appearing.

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What Are the Results WhenWe Listen and Obey God?

• Revelation 210 Be faithful until death, and I
  will give you the crown of life.

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Are You Listening to God?