7 Ways to Know if You Follow God - Obey

I) Introduction

Man can escape death by obeying the word of God

How do we know if we really know God?

If God exist man cannot know it

by his own reasoning

or effort

Man cannot enter the spiritual world

God has to come to our world.

HE DID SO IN JESUS CHRIST

(ESV)

13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

II) The False Professing Man

It is impossible to know God and not obey God

God created us for a reason

He gave us those reasons in His word.

If a person says He know God, but does not walk with God he is a liar.

(ESV)

6 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “ ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

III) There is the Obedient Man

He obeys and keeps God commands

He knows God and Loves God

He learns all there is to know about His

Will

Desires

Wants

To know Him we must DRAW NEAR TO CHRIST

Follow the word

Live as He lived

(ESV)

50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

(ESV)

23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

(ESV)

10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

III) The Responsible Man

The word walk means a continual action

Responsible to walk as Christ

Lives his PROFESSION

believes and trust God

worshipping and praying to God

Fellowship with God

Sacrifice for God

Teach about God

Love other

Obey Commands

(ESV)

1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

It is impossible to know God and not obey God

God created us for a reason

He gave us those reasons in His word.

If a person says He know God, but does not walk with God he is a liar.