Enabling Obedience

Final discourse before His death

Motivations for obedience/anything (Some pure, Some selfish)

(Love one another, World will know. Love for Me means Trusting Me, Trusting Me Means Obeying ME)

Why are you obedient?

Some of you aren’t obedient.

Next Step of Trusting God is Obedience. If we trust Him we will obey.

ME:

Jess is a rule follower. Law, rule, expectation , doesn’t question. Layne & I question EVERYTHING

Layne & I question EVERYTHING

I’ve battled between FORCED obedience w/Layne VS motivating/teaching to her heart.

WE:

Obey your boss in fear or respect?

Obey your boss in fear or respect?

Obey your parents in fear or love?

Obey community laws in fear or respect?

YOU can be OBEDIENT for many reasons. Motivations for obedience/anything (Some pure, Some selfish)

More Importantly Why Do You Obey God?

More Importantly Why Do You Obey God? (MOTIVES)

Don’t want to go to Hell?

He’s punish you?

Why do you Obey God?

TODAY:

Jesus is speaking to the Disciples Heart.

They’re scared. Fearful & Abandoned.

They’re deciding between obedic

YOU can be OBEDIENT for many reasons. Motivations for obedience/anything (Some pure, Some selfish)

Why are you obedient?

Some of you aren’t obedient.

Jesus gives them the reason to obey. Possible to OBEY HIM but NOT love HIm.

Possible to OBEY HIM but NOT love HIm.

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Jesus expects Obedience

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 14

15 “If you love me, you will keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor,t to be with you forever. 17 He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be in you.

3 Times = emphasis.

15 “If you love me, you will keep my commands.

21 The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.

23 If anyone loves me, he will keep my word.

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 14

The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 14

21 The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.

Love is revealed NOT in rebellion but in submission.

Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.

Who loves Jesus? Do you keep His Words? Commands?

Jesus modeled this LOVE

31 On the contrary, so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do as the Father commanded me.

16 "For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

1 God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

Chapt 13: A new command to LOVE another like this! RESULT? The World would know that you are Christ’s disciples!

Love is a verb. Action! A Choice!

Basic Commands/Words of Jesus:

“come to me”, be baptised, repent, seek the Kingdom 1st, deny yourself, follow me, forgive others, pray & fast, don’t fear, love your neighbor as yourself, take up your cross, make disciples, give 10%, love your enemies.

Love Enables Obedience (Motive)

How YOU doing? NOT perfectly?

LOVE is a motivator.

Love Enables Obedience (Motive)

Our love for Jesus motivates our obedience.

Love is revealed NOT in rebellion but in submission.

3 times:

Love is revealed NOT in rebellion but in submission.

Jesus modeled this LOVE

31 On the contrary, so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do as the Father commanded me.

"For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

Chapt 13: A new command to LOVE another like this! RESULT? The World would know that you are Christ’s disciples!

Love is a verb. Action! A Choice!

MOST say that we LOVE JESUS!

Jesus say’s IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME.

What do our actions reveal?

Basic Commands/Words of Jesus:

We can’t love Him

“come to me”, be baptised, repent, seek the Kingdom 1st, deny yourself, follow me, forgive others, pray & fast, don’t fear, love your neighbor as yourself, take up your cross, make disciples, give 10%, love your enemies.

NOT perfectly? failure

YES! NOW PRIDEFUL? = Pharisees’ Problem

23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of[i] mint, dill, and cumin, and yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness.[j] These things should have been done without neglecting the others. 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel!

25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed[k] and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup,[l] so that the outside of it[m] may also become clean.

27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and every kind of impurity. 28 In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

We CAN’T love Him on our own! HOW DO WE LIVE OBEDIENT? ---TENTION!

The Holy Spirit Enables our obedience

Holy Spirit Enables Obedience (Means)

Lots of confusion around the HS

Another Councilor: 2 words in Greek for “another” 1. Another unlike/different 2. Another SAME = to Christ

The Holy Spirit REMAINS (not orphaned)

Someone abandoned you?

Jesus never will (NOT an orphan)

The Holy Spirit RESIDES (in you)

even better. Always there.

how did Jesus overcome temptation?

The Holy Spirit RESIDES (in you)

you can overcome

The Holy Spirit REVEALS(teach)

Teach His ways - illuminate scripture - SEE JESUS, YOU SEE THE FATHER!

The Holy Spirit REVEALS(teach)

convict, convince, give confidence

The Holy Spirit REMINDS (convict, convince, confidence)

The Holy Spirit REMINDS (convict, convince, confidence)

What you’ve already learned!

Right way

right things

How do you know if you Love Jesus?

How do you know if you Love Jesus?

Obedience resulting from Love and Enabled by the Holy Spirt

The Result of Love is Obedience .

The Result of Obedience is Peace.