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Episode 55: The Obedience · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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I will, I will bless the Lord at all times, and his prayer
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shall continually be in my mouth. Our Father, which art in heaven,
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Hollywood, be thy name, Thy Kingdom. Come, Thy will be done
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on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread,
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and forgive us our trustpasses as we forgive those who trustpass against us.
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Lead us not Old Lord into temptation, but deliver us from all the evil.
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For Thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory, both
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now and forever. Amen and Amen. All right, God bless you again.
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We welcome you to another edition of In Time Revival Ministries USAY Broadcasts and
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Podcasts. I am your host, a man, Pastor al Zachary, and
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today we are going to continue in our series on a Man, the question
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of are you saved? This is the title question of this defining series,
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where we of course are now examining the biblical proofs of salvation. Again that
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must be in each of us who name the name of Christ. There are
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biblical proofs of our salvation. And today we're going to be a man examining
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another one of these proofs a man, the proof of obedience, Amen,
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obedience to the Lord, Amen. First and foremost before we began, we
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certainly want to recognize and honor all of our mothers. Today is Mother's Day,
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a day that has been set aside where we honor mothers. Amen.
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And certainly I want to a man, honor and recognize as my mother,
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my mother in law and my wife, Amen, three very impactful women in
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my life. And certainly certainly grateful to the Lord for allowing amen, me
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to come forth into this world from my mother's womb. Amen. She carried
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me, she prayed for me, She even fasted while I was in her
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womb. Amen. And I am eternally grateful for her not only praying for
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me, but also for my siblings. And I know she continues to do
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so even to this day, and we are certainly the beneficiaries of her faithfulness
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to the Lord. Also, again, my mother in law, a man
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who a man, raised her children also the way we certainly see seemingly they're
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not mothers like we had many years ago, decades ago, when we were
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raised in the fear and admonition and also with a sense of respect and honor
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and duty. Amen. And that is not again a slight on mothers today,
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but it's just we certainly understand the change in the shifting that has happened
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in our culture, and this is why the truth of God in his word
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is so important. Amen. But as always again we honor our mothers and
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certainly those of you who are loving and nurturing and rearing your children, Amen,
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in such a very difficult, very difficult time in which we now live.
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We certainly honor you. Certainly my wife, of course, I'm certainly
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grateful to her, Amen, for her beautiful and wonderful care of our children
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when they were being Amen raised years ago, and we certainly honor her also
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on today, and all again, all of your mothers out there, and
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we again certainly cherishing and never taking for granted, Amen, the Amen,
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the great sacrifices that you make on behalf of your children. So again we
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honor you on this beautiful, glorious day, Mother's Day. Amen. All
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right to our session on today again we're going to be talking about obedience,
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the obedience that we must have, and we certainly hope that you have been
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obedient to your mother, Amen, on this Mother's Day, honoring your mother
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and your father, Amen. Obedience is very important and very crucial, as
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one of the biblical proofs of our salvation. Amen. So this is what
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we're going to be examining today, Amen, and seeing what the Bible,
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the Word of the Lord, has to say about the obedience a man.
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The word obey, of course, you should know the meaning of it,
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to comply with or to follow commands, restrictions, wishes, instructions, to
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respond conformably, in action, in other words, what you do, Amen,
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to be obedient. Amen. That is the definition of the word obey,
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from which that's the root of the word obedient. And the word obedience,
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by the way, is defined as the act. This is action.
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This is not lip service, the act or practice of obeying, Amen,
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the act or practice of obeying dutiful or submissive compliance. And please make no
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mistake about it. Everybody in this world understands obedience. Everybody in this world
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is submissive or compliant practicing some form of obedience. Somewhere, a man conforming,
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complying with commands, restrictions, the wishes or instructions of others or entities.
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And we all understand this. And certainly when it comes to the faith,
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Amen, When it comes to the faith, those of us who have
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been redeemed and set free by the sacrificial offering of Jesus Christ of himself.
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Amen. He gave himself for us. The Bible lets us know we as
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his people, as his sheep. Amen. We are set apart to this
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extraordinary walk of faith, in this faith that calls for us. Amen.
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To be obedient to this faith. Amen. A lot of people make amen.
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Amen again the profession. But we have to walk to walk in obedience.
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Amen. If Jesus Christ is indeed our Lord and savior. Amen.
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If we name him as Lord, and he said in his own words,
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why call ye me Lord Lord? And do not the things that I say?
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Amen? If you love me, keep my commandments. Amen. So
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Amen. Obedience This is what we're gonna be talking about today again. Obedience
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is a biblical proof of your true salvation in Christ. Jesus Romans chapter one,
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Verses five and six. The apostle rights through him. He's talking about
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Jesus. Through Jesus, we have received grace and apostleship. The law was
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given by Moses, remember John chapter number one, but grace and truth came
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by Jesus Christ. So through him, Paul recognizes he received grace and apostleship.
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Listen what he says, for obedience to the faith among all nations for
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His name, among whom you also, He's writing to us, are the
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called of Jesus Christ. So we have been called to this faith for obedience
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to the faith, the Bible says, among all nations for his name.
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And again in Roman's Champion number six, verses fifteen through seventeen, these words
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are recorded. He asked the question, what then shall we sin? Because
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we are not under the law, but under great certainty, not or God
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forbid? Do you not know? Listen what the Bible says. That to
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whom you present yourselves to obey, to whom you present yourselves to obey,
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you are that One's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death,
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or of obedience leading to righteousness. So you are either a slave of
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sin or a slave of obedience, which leads to righteousness. But God be
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thanked. Verse number seventeen. He says that though you were see that's the
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old man. Remember we already talked about these other biblical proofs. Amen number
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one. The change that happens in us. If any man be in Christ,
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he is a new creation. The love of God should have brought in
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our hearts by the Holy Spirit that's given to us the faith. Without faith,
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it is impossible to please God fruitfulness. God expects a return on his
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investment forgiveness. We are forgiven, we are to forgive. And so now
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in this obedience to God is just as if not. There's no ranking of
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these, I mean, you really just no way to rank, and I'm
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certainly not trying to in any way rank these in importance, because you cannot
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even receive the Holy Spirit without obeying God. As we're going to see from
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the Word of God. You cannot even receive the Holy Spirit without obedience,
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just as you cannot receive it without faith, because faith comes by hearing,
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hearing by the Word of God. Amen. You can't receive or be a
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part of this salvation without forgiveness. That's what repentance brings a man ushers in
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forgiveness, Aman, That's why Jesus died for the forgiveness of our sins.
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Amen. And so all of these I mean are just again biblical proofs of
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our salvation. And so obedience to the faith is what we are called to
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be. We're no longer slaves of sin, We're no longer servants of sin.
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But we are to be obedient to our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ,
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who gave himself for us. That's why he says again in verse number
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seventeen of Romans cheptifive. But God be thanked, Thank you Jesus that though
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you were the slaves of sin, that's our past. Yet you obeyed.
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Listen what the Bible says. Yet you obeyed from the heart that form of
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doctrine to which you were delivered, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the gospel.
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Now the doctrine that has been delivered to the saints is is following Christ
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and obeying him. Amen. I will walk with him. I will walk
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that is in him a man. That is what obedience to the faith is
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all about. No one who is truly saved is walking in this world as
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their own person, making their own rules, living their own individual life,
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in the sense that they again are their own, separate, isolated, do
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as they please, kind of person. No, no, no, you
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now belong to him. Our life is now in Him, of Him,
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through Him. Amen. And and we are conforming. Amen. Yes,
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you are an individual person. Well, I'm an individual. My individuality has
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not been stripped from me. Amen. And as we're going to see,
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obedience is an act of the will. It is an act of the will.
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And so a man, we no longer live of ourselves or to ourselves,
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Amen, doing our own will as we see fit to do. No,
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no, no. When you have been saved by Jesus Christ, you
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are now to walk in his predestined path that he has already determined for you,
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which for every one of us calls for our our conforming ty, Amen,
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our transforming, transformation change. Amen. This is an act of our
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again, act of our wheels, submissive, being surrendered to his will,
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just as Jesus. Then again, Jesus was our example. He prayed in
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that garden of Gassemite, not my will, but thine be done. Amen.
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So this is an act of our will. Amen, to surrender our
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will to his will. Amen. And so that his will will be done
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in our lives. Amen. And this is why, even in the Old
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Testament, we are to acknowledge him Proverbs three and five, in all of
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our ways, so that he will direct our So we submit, we understand
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that he's the all knowing, the all powerful, the almighty. Amen.
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And he not only knows the way, he is the way He has prepared,
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the way for which we should walk. Amen. And so we want
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to walk with obedience, knowing that a man we can have a blessed assurance
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of victory, a man of blessedness, peace, Amen, joy fulfillment,
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all of the things that we really want and need. Amen, that we
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long for a man is to be had through our obedience to him. Amen.
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And so when we submiss submissively a man, and willingly a man,
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yield ourselves over to his will. This is where obedience comes into I mean
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full bloom, if you will, as the biblical proof in our lives of
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our salvation. Now, by the way, as it is with any biblical
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proof of one being a child of God, obedience is not a New Testament
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phenomenon or attribute that came to man in the Church age. God has always
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required obedience unto righteousness. And so when we examine the scriptures, we're going
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to look at a few examples, examples, if you will, in the
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Old Testament. So when we examine the scriptures, we can see clearly a
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man that God is consistent. He's the same yesterday today in f evermore,
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God is consistent in his forbearance in his patience that he has demonstrated toward man
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a man throughout history. Amen. And as we speak of God's patience and
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forbearance, let me hasten to say, let me hasten to emphasize emphatically by
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the way that none of us are perfectly obedient at all times and in all
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of our ways. Again, this is this speech to again God's patience,
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God's tolerance, God's forbearance, God's mercy, God's goodness. The Bible says
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that leads us to repentance. Amen. Because he knows our frame. The
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Bible says, he remembers, and he understands that we are dust. Amen.
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And he knows that we go astray his words, as all we like
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sheep, have gone astray. Amen, down that path the way that seems
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right. Amen. And and so God, in his loving kindness a man
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as a father who loves and cherishes and nurtures his children. He by the
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gentleness of his Holy Spirit, and I'm talking about those of us who are
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saved, he leads us in that path of righteousness. He leads us besides
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to steal waters. He restores our souls when we go astray, when we're
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not obedient, when we don't do what we ought to do, when we
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don't act as we ought to act, when we don't conform as we ought
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to conform. Amen, and so, a man, what we must have,
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even though again we all sin and fall short of the glory of God.
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What we must have in us that is a proof of our salvation is
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a heart, a heart of obedience, a heart that is willing to be
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obedient, a heart that is willing to repent, a heart that is willing
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to turn, a heart that is willing to be disciplined and corrected. If
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you have that kind of heart in you, a man, it is a
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proof of your salvation. You're willing, you will if you be willing and
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obedient. The Bible says, this is a This is an act of our
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will, and the Holy Spirit is working in us a man, to bring
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us consistently during this process of sanctification, in each one of our lives,
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to bring us into conformity, to bring us to that place of perfection maturity
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a man in Christ Jesus. And we can only get there. We can
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only progress, ladies and gentlemen, people of God. We can only progress,
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Amen, by our willingness to be obedient by our obedience Abraham, who
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was the father of the faith. Amen, he obeyed God willingly, because
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first and foremost he believed God. Jesus twenty two eighteen tells us this is
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the promise that God reiterated to him as he spoke to him from the very
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beginning. Faith comes by hearing, hearing, by the word of the Lord.
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He made all of these promises to Abraham. Abraham obeyed God. Amen,
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he obeyed. Get out, he got out, Leave he left.
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See when the Lord speaks. That's for faith is produced. Faith comes by
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hearing here in by the word of the Lord. But faith is not activated
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if we don't do anything. Faith without work is what dead. So Abraham
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believed God, and he obeyed God. How did he obey with his action
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action Genesis twenty two eighteen. God reiterates again his promise to Abraham. He
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says, in your seed. Listen what he says in your seed, Abraham,
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all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. Why this is what
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the body says, Because you have obeyed my voice. Abraham was not to
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be blessed without obedience, all of the aman nations of the earth being blessed
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because of Abraham. Would not could not happen without Abraham stepping out in faith,
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in action, obeying God. Now, when you have the polar opposite
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of an abraham Amen, such as, for example, the Pharaoh of the
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Exodus, who refuses to obey a man, you can see a clear amen
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again, a case of defiance in the heart of this man who in Exodus
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chapter five, when Moses was sent to him, his response to Moses demand
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from God, amen to him. Thus, at the Lord, God of
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the Hebrews, let my people go. Pharaoh's response Exodus five, verse number
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two. He says, who is the Lord that I should obey his voice?
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Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice? You know,
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that's the same attitude of many people today, in their obstinates, in their
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arrogance, in their self will, in their pride, even though they knew
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him. The Bible says Roman chef the one they know, they know,
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but they refuse to glorify him as God. Who is the Lord? Who
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is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I
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do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go. That was
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his response to Moses. I will not obey the Lord. Amen, and
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and and and of course you know the story. And I want to take
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you later into the book of Exodus by the way, and and and and
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the Lord setting these slaves free, as he again made his promises to Abraham,
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Isaac and Jacob that he would do what he promised to do. He
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now, Amen, brings his children, the children of Israel, the children
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of Abraham, the seat of Abraham, out of bondage. And he's carrying
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them. Amen to the promised land. Amen. And in Exodus chapter twenty
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three, and again, I'm just showing you a few examples in the Old
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Testament how God consistently has required of man obedience Exellus, chapter twenty three,
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Verses twenty through twenty two. Behold, he says, I send an angel
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before you. Now this is not just an angel. This was the angel
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of the Lord, the preincarnate Christ. Behold, I send listen to the
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words of the of the of the text, because you're going to see that
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it was indeed the Christ himself, pre incarnate. I send an angel before
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you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which
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I have prepared. Listen what he says verse twenty one twenty three. Beware
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of him and obey his voice. Do not provoke him, for he will
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not pardon your transgressions. For my name is in him. That's Jesus.
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He always was, he always is a man. But if you indeed listen
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what he says verse twenty two. But if you indeed obey his voice and
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do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies
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and an adversary to your adversaries. God required of his people from the very
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outset obedience. I'm going to send my angel before you. He's going to
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bring you. And that's what he was. He was the light amen,
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the cloud by day, the pillar of fire by night. He was the
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light that led them to the promised land. And again the Lord spoke very
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clearly to them, obey his voice, obey his voice. Don't be like
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Pharaoh. Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice? I don't
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know the Lord, Amen, he says, But if you indeed obey his
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voice and do all that I speak, then he says, I will be
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an enemy to your enemies and ancessary to your adversaries. And a lot of
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us want God to be for us to fight for us, to defend us.
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Amen to amen, bless us to prosper us, to keep us whole
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and healthy and energetic and vibrant even in our old age. Amen. We
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want the Lord to be with us, to never leave us, to never
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forsake us. But are we obeying him? You want you want the Lord
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to fight your enemies. You want the Lord to amen, be against your
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adversaries what he says to them. If you indeed obey my voice, do
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all I speak. Obey his voice, the voice of the Angel, the
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Christ preincarnate. They didn't know that at the time. Who's going to go
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before you? Who's going to bring you to the promised Land? This speaks
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all. This all speaks of Jesus. That's who he is. He's the
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one that brings us to the Promised Land. You want to get to Heaven,
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you gotta go by him through him. Amen. And if you indeed
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obey his voice and do all that I speak, he says, I will
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be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. God will
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fight our battles. Amen. We can amen in our obedience. We can
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rest assured in our obedience. We can rest assured that God will avenge his
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own elect that's the promise of the Word of God. That's the promise of
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Jesus himself. Amen. Look at Deuteronomy twenty eight, verses one and two.
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Very quickly, before we get to the New Testament. He says,
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now, it shall come to pass if you are diligent. This is Moses
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given a charge to the people. It shall come to pass if you diligently
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obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully. That's our
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action. All his commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your
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God, listen, will set you high above all nations of the earth,
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all that we would oh, that men would owe, that we would obey
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him, and all these listen, all these blessings shall come upon you and
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overtake you because you because this is what the body who says, because you
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obey the voice of the Lord your God. Obedience to the Lord is hear
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this very carefully. Hear this very carefully. And it might say it will
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probably save some of you some money, perhaps even really because some of you,
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perhaps many of you, think that you can do quit with God.
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It doesn't work that way, that you can follow some seven step, twelve
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step thirty step program to obtain the blessings of God. It doesn't work that
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way, ladies and gentlemen. The blessing plan of God is very, very
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simple, very straightforward. Obedience is the blessing plan of God. It is
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so, it is, it is so. I don't even know. I
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don't I don't have the word, because the best way I can describe it
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is that is automatic. You don't even have to ask, because he said
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in the same chapter twenty eight of Deuteronomy, all of these blessings will come
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on you and overtake you if you just diligently hearken to the voice of the
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Lord your God. So the blessing plan of God is simple obedience, and
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God will just sin blessings your way, give you more than you can handle,
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so that you then can be a blessing to others. Oh my God,
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Oh if God, Oh if we oh If. And I'm talking about
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me too, this is me. I'm preaching to me today too. This
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is this is to me, this is to all of us, if we
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would just obey God's word, Oh my God, the blessings not just for
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the blessings. But I'm just saying, you wouldn't have to Oh, my
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God, we wouldn't even have to ask. He said, before you call,
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I will answer before you even call. It's automatic, it is automatically
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activated in our obedience. The blessings of God, the protection of God,
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the joy of the Lord, the beauty of holiness, the wonderful a man,
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a glory of his presence and his you know, his, his promises
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coming to fruition in our lives. It's just it's it's automatic. It's automatic
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in obedience. Deuteronomy thirty. I want to take you there. I'm gonna
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read a few verses there, beginning of verse number one. Let me,
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let me, let me hurry along. Here again, this is Moses given
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this final charge to the people and stressing the importance of their obedience. Again,
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this is not a New Testament phenomenon. A man God has always required
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of his people obedience. It shall come to pass when all these things come
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upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you,
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and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God
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drives you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey his voice.
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Listen, obey his voice, now Moses is speaking of and he spoke
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prophetically by the way, of course, because if you know the history of
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the children of Israel, of course, they did not obey the Lord.
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They broke covenant with him, and they were driven away from their homeland.
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Amen. Both the Northern and the Southern kingdoms were eventually uprooted away from the
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promised land a man, and Moses had already spoken prophetically of this happening if
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they disobeyed the voice of the Lord. But even in God's mercy, he
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says, when you are driven away, Amen, and you return to the
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Lord your God, and by his voice, according to all that I command
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you today, you and your children with all your heart and with all your
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soul, that the Lord your God listen what he says, will bring you
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back from captivity. Obedience brings restoration, y'all. Obedience brings restoration and power,
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and authority and dominion, and all again, all of the promises of
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God predicated upon our obedience. Amen, we want all of them. We
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want all of the power. We want all of the authority, We want
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all the dominion. We want to be above only and not beneath. We
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want all of the blessings of God. But we don't want to obey.
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How we can't. We can't, ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living
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God. We can't have it both ways. Again, you can't eat at
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the Lord's table in the table of devils. So in their disobedience, we
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know they were driven away in captivity. But God in his mercy, God
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in his compassion, God and his forbear, God and his forgiveness, and
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Man in his loving kindness and his patience towards all of us. Listen what
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Moses says prophetically that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity,
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have compassion on you, gather you again from all the nations where the Lord
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your God has scatter you. If any of you who are driven out to
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the farthest parts unto Heaven, from there the Lord your God he will gather
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you, and from there he will bring you. Then the Lord your God
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will bring you to the land which your father's possessed, and you shall possess
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it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. And
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the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants.
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To love the Lord your God with all your heart. And with all your
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soul that you may live. Also. He's not finished. The Lord your
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God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you
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and persecute you. You and you will again obey the voice of the Lord
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and do all his commandments which I command you. Today. The Lord your
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God will make you a listening what happens. The Lord your God will make
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you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your
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body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your
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land for good. For the Lord will again rejoice over you for good,
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as he rejoiced over your father's. If you obey the voice of the Lord
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your God to keep his commandments and his statues which are written in this book
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of the Law. And if you turn to the Lord your God with all
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your heart and with all your soul, listen, listen, listen again.
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There it is again obedience. If you obey the voice of the Lord your
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God. If you turn, that's repentance, y'all, if we repent,
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if my people that are called by my name, If you turn to the
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Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, listen,
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what he says, for this command which I command you today is not too
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mysterious for you, nor is it far off. Listen, Lord, listen,
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y'all. Come on, church, Come on, people of God.
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This is not confusing, hey man, there's nothing there's nothing ambiguous about this
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at all. You don't need any you don't even need an elementary school education
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to understand this. Moses said, this commandment which I command you today,
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is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. It is
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not in heaven that you should say, who will ascend into heaven for us
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to bring it to us that we may hear it and do it. No,
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no, no no. Nor is it beyond the sea that you should
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say, who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us
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that we may hear it and do it. No, no, no,
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But the word is very near you. Paul picked this up in a New
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Testament. The word is nah you, the word of faith which we preach.
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It's in your mouth, Moses says, it's in your heart that you
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may do it. You know it, I know it, We all know
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it. We all know what we ought to be doing, how we ought
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to be walking, how we ought to be pleasing God. Amen. In
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the final analysis, the obedience is resting within the power of the will of
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those who are saved, who have been delivered from the sin slavery of this
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world. Amen, the devil the flesh. Amen, yield not to temptation.
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Yielding is sin. If you yield yourself to sin, you are the
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servant of sin. If you yield yourself to obedience, you are the servant
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of obedience. Unto right. Since Romans chapter six, read it earlier,
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you see we have been empowered by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost to have
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dominion over sin in our lives. The Holy Ghost, that same Holy ghost
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in us gives us the ability, the ability, the ability we didn't have.
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The Holy Ghost gives us the ability to obey. Like no other people
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ever in the history of God's dealing with man, he whom the Son sets
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free is free. Indeed, Amen, there is absolutely no substitute for obeying
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the word of the Lord, no substitute. King Saul, for example,
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found this out the hard way. The Lord rejected him as king and replaced
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him precisely because of his refusal to be obedient to the word of the Lord.
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Sought that he could somehow appease the Lord by sacrificing the spoils of war
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in the place of obedience. No, no, no, And when Samuel
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arrived, you know the story. If you don't know the story, you
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can read it in First Samuel beginning back. I believe in chapter fourteen,
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but certainly in chapter fifteen. I'm gonna read a couple of verses there.
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First Samuel, chapter fifteen. When Samuel arrived after Saul's disobedience, Samuel rebukes
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him. Verse twenty two has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and
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sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord. Behold, listen.
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What he says, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than
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the fat of rams for rebellion. Oh, listen, listen, listen.
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Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
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And because Saul you have rejected the word of the Lord, he also has
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rejected you from being king. To obey it's better than sacrifice. Some people
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there and again, there are people today who have in the church who have
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the mindset, well, let's call them church attendees and God forbid that they
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are the wheat. Amen. Listen, every listen. I persuaded, I'm
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persuaded by the scriptures, by the word of God, that every true child
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of God has the heart of obedience. Again, even though we all sin
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and fall short, we don't always fully obey, Amen, We don't always
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fully want to do or even understand. Sometimes, like Peter, for example,
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I give you a quick, quick, quick, quick example, Acts
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chapter number ten. When Peter had the vision, when he was fastened in
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praying. He was fastening in praying, the Lord brings him a vision.
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Rise, Peter, kill and eat. What was Peter's response, No,
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not so, Lord, I'm not no, no, no, I'm not
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doing that. And Peter struggled even after this with the Gentiles, with the
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ministry to the gentiles. That's why God already had a ram in the bush.
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If you will, Saul the apostle Paul, Amen that he sent Amen,
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because Peter was very reluctant. Amen. And even later Paul rebuked Peter,
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you know, for dissembling Amen from the Gentiles when the Jews were around.
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And you know, and and but but but but but nevertheless, listen,
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please understand, we all, Amen, have our faults, our seasons,
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our times, our instances, if you will when we don't always obey
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and walk in full obedience to the Lord. And again, thank God.
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And I can say I'm speaking for myself. Thank you Jesus for your mercy.
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Thank you Lord for your forbearance. Thank you Lord for your long suffering.
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Thank you Lord for your patience with me. Amen, Thank you Jesus.
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That's my personal thank you. Amen. And I'm I'm I'm gonna need
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it even more, I'm sure, Amen. But the heart, it has
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to be the heart. If you are truly say, if you have a
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heart that you and I give you quick another very very quick example of the
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man who replaced Saul by the way David. Amen. This was a man
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who sinned egregiously on several occasions. But yet how did God describe him a
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man after his own heart? The difference between David and Saul. David had
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a heart of repentance, not a heart of rebellion. David had a heart
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even though he sinned and fell short of the glory of God. He prayed
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some fifty one created me a clean heart I could offer to you, Lord.
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I have the abundance I could offer to you sacrifices and offerings. But
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those things are not what you want. That's not what God will. You
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can't buy him off, you can't bribe him. There is no quid poor
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quo. What God requires of every one of us Old Testament New Testament obedience,
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obedience. And we really as New Testament saints. Oh God help us,
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We have no excuse because now we have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
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David, pray, create in me a clean heart, renew within me
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the right spirit. We have the Holy Spirit, We have the power of
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the Holy Ghost working in us. The Bible says it is God who works
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in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure. But he
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does not and he will not force any of us against our will. He
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will work gently. His Holy Spirit will again be patient with us. He
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will compel us, he will chasten us, he will correct us. But
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he does it in love in order to bring us into conformity. He doesn't
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force us into conformity. But his love is so overwhelming. Oh thank you
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Jesus, Oh thank you Jesus, Oh thank you Jesus. His forgiveness,
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his patience is forbearance. And if you are again, truly saved, and
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have the heart, the true heart of a believer, a true believer,
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you will come into conformance, conformity, compliance, obedience. Amen. Now
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listen, let me finish this in First Samuel. Real quickly, Saul said
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to Samuel in response, because of I'm sorry, let me back up again.
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I gotta read verse twenty three again. First Samuel, Chapter fifteen,
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Verse twenty three, Samuel says to Saul, rebellion is as the sin of
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witchcraft. Stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. And because you have rejected the
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word of the Lord, he has rejected you from being king. And so
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in response, Saul then says to Samuel, I have sinned. Well,
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that's a good star, that's a good confession. That's that's always good to
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acknowledge. But you know who else said those same words. Pharaoh Paarareh said
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it after the Lord, you know, brought some plagues. So a lot
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of times some people will make a confession with their mouth and reconnect say yeah,
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I did I was wrong. I did wrong. But where is the
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brokenness, where is the contrition? Where is the willingness to be obedient?
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And because Saul was not willing to be obedient. That is why God and
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God knows the heart. See we we don't will. I'm not to judge.
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I'm not to judge. Somebody says, they're sorry, I saw,
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I saw, I can I saw all I know. I don't know.
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I can't see the heart. I mean, we can see actions. We
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can see you know all of those things, and and and God, can
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you certainly give us the spirit of discernment. But Saul was not serious.
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He was not contriteing his heart and his actions after it proved it. But
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Saul was more concerned about his public image. So he says to Samuel verse
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twenty four, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the
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Lord and your words because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. He
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feared the people and obeyed their voice. Now, therefore, please pardon my
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sin and return with me. So he wanted Saul to Saul wanted Samuel to
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not leave him. In other words, he wanted a show of you know,
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of being in conformed, to a show of Samuel being with him,
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a show of God being with him. Please pardon my sin, return with
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me that I may worship the Lord he was again, he was more concerned
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with his public image and approval rating. If you will with the people rather
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than with God. Oh help us, Jesus, Oh help, Oh,
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I wish I had enough time. Oh my God. Seesaw readily admitted that
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he sinned and obeyed man rather than God, and he did it out of
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the spirit of fear of what the people could or would do or think of
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him. I listen what he said. I feared the people. Well,
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you need to fear God, you need to obey God, he said.
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I feared the people and I obeyed their voice. Oh. You see,
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you can't be in leadership. You cannot be in leadership if you are not
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willing to obey God. If you're going to obey the people rather than God,
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you cannot be in leadership, not in the church especially, And it's
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no good in government either. Amen. Amen, fear God and keep his
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commandments. This is the whole duty of man. Not fear the people,
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not people. Please, Amen, not be afraid of the people. What
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they're gonna think about you, what they're gonna say about you. Now you
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contrast that with how the apostles handled their situations. The zach opposite stands that
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Peter and Apostles took when they were facing the very real, by the way,
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possibility of imprisonment and martyrdom. Now, in Saul's case, they had
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just gotten a great victory amen, and the people were with him. But
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the Apostles Acts chapter five, by the way, if you have your Bibles,
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they faced a very real possibility of imprisonment and martyrdom. And it was
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from the same corrupt leaders who had betrayed and murdered Jesus. This same group
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commanded Peter and the Apostles to cease and desist. They in essence issued a
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cease and desist order decree law oral law to the Apostles to cease and desist
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teaching in the name of Jesus Christ. But thank god they did not look
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at Acts chapter five, verse twenty seven. The Bible says, when they
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had brought them, the Apostles, they set them before the council, and
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the high priest asked them, saying, did we not strictly command you not
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to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your
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doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood on us. They're talking about Jesus,
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the one they murdered. But Peter and the apostles answered and said,
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listen, Oh my God, help us, Jesus, help us, Jesus.
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We ought to obey God rather than man. The God of our fathers
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raised up Jesus, whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. Him God
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has exalted to its right hand to be prince and savior, to give repentance
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to Israel and forgiveness of sins. I want you to hear this very carefully,
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verse number thirty two. And we are His witnesses to these things.
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And so also is the Holy Spirit. Listen what Peter says, whom God
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has given to those who obey him. Oh, I pray, I pray,
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I pray that you have the ears to hear what the apostle Peter said
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in his rebuttal, God's Holy Spirit is given to those who obey him.
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No one can even receive the Holy Spirit. No one can receive the Holy
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Spirit without obedience. Repent acts Chapter two, verse thirty eight. When Peter
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was asked, men and brethren, what shall we do? What shall we
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do? What do I need to do to be in conformity? What do
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I need to do? What do I need to obey. This is the
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command. Repent and be baptized, every one of you in the name of
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Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the
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gift. It is a gift of the Holy ghosts. But you can't if
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you don't repent. If there's no repentance and obedience to God, there is
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no receiving of the Holy Ghost, and therefore no salvation to those who do
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not obey. If you do not repent, if you have not repented,
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you are not saved. You cannot be saved. It's all about obedience.
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It begins with obedience. It's a walk of obedience. The obedience that we
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are called to is not predicated upon situational circumstances, but rather upon our being
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committed to the one who gave himself for our salvation. We are not to
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make up our minds based upon how the political winds are blowing, or upon
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the wayward direction of the culture or the times in which we live. We
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must possess the resolve within our souls, being emboldened and empowered by the Holy
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Ghost to take the unpopulous feats. The unpopulous stands that we are going to
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obey God rather than man, rather than the evil, spiritual wickedness that is
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driving their activities in this rupt world in which we live. Galatians three and
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one, Paul asked this question, asked two questions. By the way to
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the Galatians Chapter three, verse number one, he says, all foolish Galatians,
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who has bewitched you? Who cast a spell upon you? That you
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should not obey the truth? And again he asked him in the Galatians Chapter
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five, verse seven, you ran well, who hindered you? Who hindered
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you from obeying the truth? Oh? I pray today. My prayer today
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is that we let nothing hinder the Church of the Living God from the obedience
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that we have been called to. We have been called to obedience to the
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faith. Romans Chapter five, Obedience Romans Chapter one, Brother Verse five,
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Obedience to the faith. The question again is are you saved? That's the
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question of this series. Are you saved? Do you name the name of
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Christ? Have you obeyed God? Because He only gives his Holy Spirit to
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those who obey Him and the obedience the first order is repentance. That's what
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he's talking about, Peter. He gives his Holy spirit to those who obey
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Him in repentance, and then God will do the rest. Once He has
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given you his Holy spirit, he will lead you and guide you into all
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true Now we have to have a made up mind. So again another question.
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Have you made up your mind that you're going to obey God rather than
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man? Or are you going to obey the culture? You're going to obey
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the hot topic of the day of the season. Are you going to give
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in to the desires of the evil and the wicked. The obedience to the
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faith is not only a test of our faithfulness to Christ, but it is
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also another one of the biblical proofs of our salvation. And God help us.
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God help us in this day. God help us in this culture.
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Father, we stretch our hands to thee nor the help. We know it
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is you who work in us, both to willing to do of your good
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pleasure. Strengthen us or God in this walk, help us to stand by
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faith, to live by faith, to be obedient to the faith. In
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Jesus name, we pray and give you things a man and a man