SF361 - WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU OBEY GOD (John 14 23)
@TITLE = WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU OBEY GOD
@LEVEL ONE = JOHN 14:23
@LEVEL ONE = INTRODUCTION
@LEVEL TWO = Seven Realities In Knowing God's Will
@LEVEL THREE = 1. God is always at work around you.
@LEVEL THREE = 2. God pursues a continuing love relationship with you that is real and personal.
@LEVEL THREE = 3. God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
@LEVEL THREE = 4. God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
@LEVEL THREE = 5. God's invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
@LEVEL THREE = 6. You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
@LEVEL THREE = 7. You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work through you.
@LEVEL TWO = Obedience is the key!!!
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@LEVEL ONE = 1A. YOU EXPRESS YOUR LOVE FOR GOD
@SCRIPTURE = "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching."
@LEVEL TWO = 1B. You Will Obey Promptly
@SCRIPTURE = John 14:15, 24
@LEVEL FOUR = Obedience is the outward expression of your love for God.
@LEVEL THREE = 1C. If you have an obedience problem, you have a love problem.
@LEVEL THREE = 2C. God is love, His will is always best.
@LEVEL TWO = 2B. You Will Obey Completely
@SCRIPTURE = Deu 28:1,8 (NIV) If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth....The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
@SCRIPTURE = Deu 28:15,20 (NIV) However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:... The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.
@LEVEL TWO = 3B. You Will Obey Sincerely
@SCRIPTURE = Mat 7:21‑23 (NIV) "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23 Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
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@LEVEL ONE = 2A. YOU WILL ENJOY UNINTERRUPTED FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD
@SCRIPTURE = "My Father will love him"
@SCRIPTURE = Jer 7:23 (NIV) but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways I command you, that it may go well with you.
@LEVEL TWO = 1B. Obedience Is Doing What Is Commanded
@SCRIPTURE = Matthew 21:28‑30
@LEVEL THREE = 1C. Do I believe God has clearly guided me to respond to Him in this way?
@LEVEL THREE = 2C. Have I done all God has asked me to do up to this time?
@LEVEL TWO = 2B. Obey What You Already Know To Be God's Will
@ILL TITLE = Trust and Obey
@POEM TEXT = When we walk with the Lord In the Light of His Word<R>What a glory He sheds on our way!<R>While we do His good will, He abides with us still,<R>And with all who will trust and obey.
@POEM TEXT = But we never can prove The delights of His love<R>Until all on the altar we lay;<R>For the favor He shows and the joy He bestows<R>Are for them who will trust and obey
@POEM TEXT = Then in fellowship sweet we will sit at His feet<R>Or we'll walk by His side in the way;<R>What He says we will do, Where He sends we will go;<R>Never fear, only trust and obey
@POEM TEXT = Trust and obey, for there's no other way<R>To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey.
@LEVEL TWO = 3B. Affirmation Comes After Obedience
@SCRIPTURE = Exo 3:12 (NIV) And God said, "I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain."
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@LEVEL ONE = 3A. GOD WILL WORK THROUGH YOU TO ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSES
@SCRIPTURE = "we will come to him"
@SCRIPTURE = Exodus 7:1‑6; 8:16‑19
God's Pattern
@LEVEL TWO = 1B. God Will Invite You To Join Him In What He Is Doing (7:5)
@LEVEL TWO = 2B. God Will Tell You What To Do (7:1,2)
@LEVEL TWO = 3B. You Must Obey (7:6)
@LEVEL TWO = 4B. God Will Accomplish What He Purposed To Do (8:19)
@LEVEL TWO = 5B. You And Those Around You Will Come To Know God More Intimately
@LEVEL ONE = 4A. YOU WILL COME TO KNOW GOD
@SCRIPTURE = "make our home with him"
@SCRIPTURE = 1 John 2:3‑6 (NIV) We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. 4 The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
@LEVEL TWO = 1B. Intimate Knowledge Is A Result Of Obedience (vv. 3,4)
@LEVEL TWO = 2B. You Will Experience God's Love Fully When You Obey (v.5)
@LEVEL TWO = 3B. You Will Walk With Christ When You Obey (v.6)
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@LEVEL ONE = APPLICATION
@LEVEL TWO = Bow Your Heads and Repeat after me...
@SCRIPTURE = Psa 119:33‑35 (NIV) Teach me, O LORD, to follow your decrees; then I will keep them to the end. 34 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law and obey it with all my heart. 35 Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight.
