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Why Obey God? Pt. 3 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Here to help you to get your day
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  Speaker 1: started the best way possible, and that is by listening
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  Speaker 1: to God.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if you are aware that God wants to
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  Speaker 1: speak to you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, not just to all of us, not just general truth.
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  Speaker 1: God wants to speak to you personally today in your life.
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  Speaker 1: God knows you.
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  Speaker 1: He knows everything about you. He even knows the things
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  Speaker 1: no one else knows. He even understands things about you
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  Speaker 1: that you don't understand about yourself. God knows you intimately.
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  Speaker 1: He knows what the keys are that are going to
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  Speaker 1: make life full and meaningful for you. He created you.
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  Speaker 1: He knows your nature. He knows how He created you
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  Speaker 1: and what will make life come together for you. And
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  Speaker 1: at the heart of all that is your relationship with Him.
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  Speaker 1: If you want God involved in your life, you have
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  Speaker 1: to deepen your personal relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: Talking to him and listening to him is at the
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  Speaker 1: heart of that.
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  Speaker 1: I want to take you today as we are talking
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  Speaker 1: this week about why we should obey God in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: I want to take you to Ephesians chapter 4, verses
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  Speaker 1: 29 and 30, where Paul writes to the church in
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  Speaker 1: Ephesus and in writing to those believers, those Christians there,
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  Speaker 1: he says to them, Let no unwholesome word proceed from
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  Speaker 1: your mouth, but only such a word as is good
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  Speaker 1: for edification.
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  Speaker 1: That is for building someone up.
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  Speaker 1: According to the need of the moment so that it
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  Speaker 1: will give grace to those who hear.
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  Speaker 1: And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by
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  Speaker 1: whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
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  Speaker 1: Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you obey God, it helps your relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Him to grow stronger and more meaningful.
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  Speaker 1: And God's reminding us today in this passage that our
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  Speaker 1: relationship with Him is not just a way of life.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a Christian club whose meetings we attend once
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  Speaker 1: a week on Sunday or twice a week if we
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  Speaker 1: go to a home group meeting. No, we are in
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  Speaker 1: a living relationship with God, and you know the reason
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  Speaker 1: to obey God in your life is not so that
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  Speaker 1: you don't feel guilty. The reason to obey God is
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  Speaker 1: not because you have this sense of right and wrong
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  Speaker 1: and you want to try and do what's right.
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  Speaker 1: The heart of why you should make godly choices, do
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  Speaker 1: what's right, obey God in your life, is to grow
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  Speaker 1: closer to God, is because it's good for your relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Him, is because you want to walk with Him
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  Speaker 1: in close relationship.
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  Speaker 1: And in this passage God is pointing out that when
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  Speaker 1: we disobey Him, it grieves Him. It hurts His heart
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  Speaker 1: of love for us.
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  Speaker 1: And if we've truly made our relationship with God the
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  Speaker 1: most important relationship in our lives, which it ought to be.
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  Speaker 1: Then we'll hate to hurt him more than anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in another passage, the apostle Paul challenges us
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  Speaker 1: to keep in step with the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And God's inviting you to walk with Him today.
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  Speaker 1: The only way you can do that is by honouring
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  Speaker 1: him and obeying him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North.