TOPIC: True Obedience. TEXT:Ephesians5vs6 Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, (ESV) AIM: true obedience is from heart. BODY: A true obedience is obedience from the heart not an head obedience. Head obedience is a calculating obedience but heart obedience is a faith obedience. If truly you are a child of God, surely people ought to see and testify to that obedience in you. Your earthly Master started from your parent, your Boss, your Pastor, and others. Jesus said that Let your light so shine before men(your Parent, Boss, e.t.c.), that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (KJV) Mathew5vs16. You see, dont allow the holy, holy brethren to testify to your obedience alone, let everyone did(including your enemies). People were encouraged today to be fasting, fasting and fasting. Your fasting doesnt change and move the devil at all, it is your obedience to the word of God. Can I bribe God with my sacrifice? No, for he is not partial in action. Soul did that and Samuel said 10 Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying, 11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king:for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night. 12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal. 13 And Samuel came to Saul:and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord:I have performed the commandment of the Lord. 14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? 15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites:for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed. 16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on. 17 And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel? 18 And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. 19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord? 20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal. 22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, (KJV1Samuel15vs12-22) A true sacrifice is from the heart of man not from his brain. Not as to pretend to gain honor but as the will of God through Gods word. Not as what even any Pastor say but as the Spirit bear the witness in the word. shalom. PRAYER: FATHER, GIVE ME THE HEART OF OBEDIENCE.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:43:05 +0000
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