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Growing in Grace Through Obedience

• Having no rules may seem like a lot of fun, but
  when you honestly think about it you realize
  there would be no personal rights or protection.

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1 John 53

• For this is the love of God, that
  we keep His commandments. And His
  commandments are not burdensome.
• God, in His wisdom, calls us to obey His will, to
  protect us as we live here on earth. He
  established authorities to guide us in our lives.

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Examples of Authority

• Government Civil
• Romans 131-4

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Romans 131-4

• Let every soul be subject to the
  governing authorities. For there is no
  authority except from God, and the authorities
  that exist are appointed by God. 2 Therefore
  whoever resists the authority resists the
  ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring
  judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers are not a
  terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to
  be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good,
  and you will have praise from the same. 4 For he
  is God's minister to you for good. But if you do
  evil, be afraid for he does not bear the sword
  in vain for he is God's minister, an avenger to
  execute wrath on him who practices evil.

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Examples of Authority

• Government Civil
• Romans 131-4
• Parents Family
• Ephesians 61-4

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Ephesians 61-4

• Children, obey your parents in
  the Lord, for this is right. 2
  Honor your father and mother, which is the
  first commandment with promise 3 that it may be
  well with you and you may live long on the
  earth. 4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your
  children to wrath, but bring them up in the
  training and admonition of the Lord.

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Examples of Authority

• Government Civil
• Romans 131-7
• Parents Family
• Ephesians 61-4
• Christ Church
• Ephesians 122-23
• John 1011

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Ephesians 122-23

• And He put all things under His feet,
  and gave Him to be head over all
  things to the church, 23 which is His body, the
  fullness of Him who fills all in all.
• I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives
  His life for the sheep.
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  John 1011

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The Authority of Christ

• Given by God
• Matthew 2818 Ephesians 122-23
• 1 John 22 Matthew 721-23

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Matthew 2818

• And Jesus came and spoke to them,
  saying, All authority has been
  given to Me in heaven and on earth.

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Ephesians 122-23

• And He put all things under His feet,
  and gave Him to be head over all
  things to the church, 23 which is His body, the
  fullness of Him who fills all in all.

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1 John 22

• And He Himself is the
  propitiation for our sins, and not
  for ours only but also for the whole world.
• God gave His perfect Son to be our Savior. He
  alone is qualified to save us from our Sins.

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Matthew 721-23

• Not everyone who says to Me, Lord,
  Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he
  who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many
  will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we
  not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in
  Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?
  23 And then I will declare to them, I never knew
  you depart from Me, you who practice
  lawlessness!

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The Authority of Christ

• Given by God
• Matthew 2818 Ephesians 122-23
• 1 John 22 Matthew 721-23
• Salvation Through Blood
• Leviticus 1610 Hebrews 104
• Colossians 29-14

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Leviticus 1610

• But the goat on which the lot
  fell to be the scapegoat shall be
  presented alive before the LORD, to make
  atonement upon it, and to let it go as the
  scapegoat into the wilderness.
• The removal of sins was not possible under the
  Old Covenant. True atonement is found only in
  the blood of Jesus Christ.

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Hebrews 104

• For it is not possible that the
  blood of bulls and goats could take away
  sins.

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Colossians 29-14

• 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses
  and the uncircumcision of your
  flesh, He has made alive together with Him,
  having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having
  wiped out the handwriting of requirements that
  was against us, which was contrary to us. And He
  has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to
  the cross.
• Old Covenant Nailed to the Cross

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The Authority of Christ

• Given by God
• Matthew 2818 Ephesians 122-23
• 1 John 22 Matthew 721-23
• Salvation Through Blood
• Leviticus 1610 Hebrews 104
• Colossians 29-14
• A Higher Standard
• John 33-5
• Ephesians 51-2

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John 33-5

• Jesus answered and said to him, Most
  assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born
  again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4
  Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born
  when he is old? Can he enter a second time into
  his mother's womb and be born? 5 Jesus answered,
  Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born
  of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the
  kingdom of God.

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Ephesians 51-2

• Therefore be imitators of God
  as dear children. 2 And walk in
  love, as Christ also has loved us and given
  Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to
  God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

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Obedience

• Ultimately it goes back to God
• Romans 131-2
• Colossians 320

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Romans 131-2

• Let every soul be subject to the
  governing authorities. For there
  is no authority except from God, and the
  authorities that exist are appointed by God. 2
  Therefore whoever resists the authority resists
  the ordinance of God, and those who resist will
  bring judgment on themselves.

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Colossians 320

• Children, obey your parents in
  all things, for this is well pleasing
  to the Lord.

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Obedience

• Ultimately it goes back to God
• Romans 131-2
• Colossians 320
• Obedience under all circumstances
• Colossians 322-25

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Colossians 322-25

• Bondservants, obey in all things
  your masters according to the flesh,
  not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in
  sincerity of heart, fearing God. 23 And whatever
  you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to
  men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will
  receive the reward of the inheritance for you
  serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong
  will be repaid for what he has done, and there is
  no partiality.

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Obedience

• Ultimately it goes back to God
• Romans 131-2
• Colossians 320
• Obedience under all circumstances
• Colossians 322-25
• To God Above Man
• Acts 419-20 529

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Acts 419-20 529

• (419-20), But Peter and John answered and
  said to them, Whether it is
  right in the sight of God to listen to you more
  than to God, you judge. 20 For we cannot but
  speak the things which we have seen and heard.
• (529), But Peter and the other apostles answered
  and said We ought to obey God rather than men.

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Conclusion Obey God!

• Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience
  by the things which He suffered. 9 And having
  been perfected, He became the author of eternal
  salvation to all who obey Him.
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  Hebrews 58-9