The Righteousness of God
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· 11 viewsGod calls us to obey the faith and to proclaim obedience to all the nations.
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OBEDIENCE
OBEDIENCE
Romans 1
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
INTRODUCTION
What God is after is for mankind to become His family: for men to freely choose to live together with Him and with all other believers in a perfect world. God wants mankind living together in perfect love, joy, peace, worship, praise, and service as the family of God. He wants men living soberly, righteously, and godly before Him. He wants men obeying Him as His dear children.
• to obey Him.
1. Therefore, when God saves us, He saves us primarily to obey Him and to carry the glorious message of obedience to a rebellious and corrupt world.
2. God calls us to obey the faith and to proclaim obedience to all the nations.
• to lead other persons to obey Him—persons from all nations.
Note several facts about obedience.
Note several facts about obedience.
What God is after is for mankind to become His family: for men to freely choose to live together with Him and with all other believers in a perfect world. God wants mankind living together in perfect love, joy, peace, worship, praise, and service as the family of God. He wants men living soberly, righteously, and godly before Him. He wants men obeying Him as His dear children.
1. There is a massive difference between forced obedience and free obedience. ask students to discuss the difference.
Therefore, when God saves us, He saves us primarily to obey Him and to carry the glorious message of obedience to a rebellious and corrupt world. God calls us to obey the faith and to proclaim obedience to all the nations.
⇒ Obedience demonstrates that a person is wise.
Matthew 7:24
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
⇒ Obedience demonstrates love.
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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.
John 14:
Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
John 14:
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
⇒ Obedience demonstrates that God is worthy.
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
b. Obedience assures several things
b. Obedience assures several things
⇒ Obedience assures a prosperous life and success.
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
If they obey and serve Him,
They shall spend their days in prosperity,
And their years in pleasures.
“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11
“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11:13-15
“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
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“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.
And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
Deuteronomy 11:15
⇒ Obedience assures entrance into the kingdom of heaven.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”
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Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.
⇒ Obedience assures being blessed.
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Deuteronomy
the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today,
⇒ Obedience assures that we know the truth.
If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
⇒ Obedience assures deliverance from enemies.
“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.