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- 0:12Pastor Robert Young: If you love me you will kill me like a man Jesus never meant for obedience to be a burden of carrying alone.
- 0:25Pastor Robert Young: He wasn't to prove your love by trying harder.
- 0:30Pastor Robert Young: He was going when my brother helps you.
- 0:34Pastor Robert Young: Obedience becomes possible.
- 0:37Pastor Robert Young: Even joyful.
- 0:39Pastor Robert Young: Obedience is not ridding our teeth or forcing ourselves to be holy or trying to meet God's standards in our own strength.
- 0:51Pastor Robert Young: Obedience is responding to God's love, empowered by his spirit, and flowing from a transformed heart.
- 1:03Pastor Robert Young: We don't obey to earn God's help.
- 1:07Pastor Robert Young: We obey because God has already helped us.
- 1:10Pastor Robert Young: Our role is simply to say yes to the strength he provides.
- 1:22Pastor Robert Young: Let's take three minutes to reflect on the following question.
- 1:27Pastor Robert Young: Where is God inviting you to obey him?
- 1:31Pastor Robert Young: And how can you rely on his strength instead of your own effort?
- 4:44Pastor Robert Young: I obey God with the strength that He provides, not the strength that I produce.
- 4:53Pastor Robert Young: Again, I obey God with the strength that He provides, not the strength that I produced.
- 5:07Pastor Robert Young: Our closing prayer.
- 5:10Pastor Robert Young: Heavenly Father, think that obedience is not something I must force.
- 5:17Pastor Robert Young: Help me to respond to your love with a willing heart.
- 5:21Pastor Robert Young: Empower me, Lord, to walk in your ways through your spirit.
- 5:33Pastor Robert Young: For Christ's sake, I pray.
- 5:36Pastor Robert Young: Amen.