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Obedience.

What is Obedience?

Two types of obedience:

Two types of obedience:

Obedience to human authorities :

This is that all people, including Christians, should submit themselves to divinely instituted secular authorities. This can include presidents, governors, mayors.....AND pastors, elders, deacons, and teachers in the body of Christ.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 3

Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 3

1 Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,

Obedience to human authorities

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Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.

Obedience to God:

Submitting oneself to the will of God and to put it into affect.

It is easy to say we heard from god, to say we know this scripture or even that you know what you should be doing....but your not being obedient if YOU DON'T MOVE. You have to put it into affect.

Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible Obedience

Act or instance of submitting to the restraint or command of an authority; compliance with the demands or requests of someone or something over us.

Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary Obedience

To hear God’s Word and act accordingly. The word translated “obey” in the OT means “to hear” and is often so translated. In the NT several words describe obedience. One word means “to hear or to listen in a state of submission.” Another NT word often translated “obey” means “to trust.”

What does Obedience Look Like?

Obedience can look like many things.

Work: Jesus Says:

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 17

I glorified You on the earth, bhaving accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

Love:

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but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here

Faith: Abraham was told

New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. (1995). (Jn 14:31). La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

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Go forth from your country,

And from your relatives

And from your father’s house,

To the land which I will show you;

2 And I will make you a great nation,

And I will bless you,

And make your name great;

How many people know that Abraham had it good were he was at. He was comfortable, had great food and shelter. He was living the sweet life.

Sacrafice:

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 26

39 And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”

Here we see Jesus’ plea for relief, and yet is still is obedient to the Fathers will.

Disobedience:

For contrast and comparison and for understanding we look at disobedience

Disobedience: The refusal to obey someone, especially someone in a position of authority.

What does Disobedience look like?

Lust or greed:

so,

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 3

6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate;

You see, we wanted the knowledge of right and wrong for ourselves even though God strictly forbade eating from the tree.

Impatience:

When moses was on Mt. Sinai getting the two tablets the people grew impatient

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 32

For they said to me, ‘Make a god for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 32

23 “For they said to me, ‘Make a god for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’