Obedience Hereby We Know n Learned obedience by

Obedience Hereby We Know

n Learned obedience by His suffering, Heb. 5: 8 -9 n Author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, Acts 10: 34 -35 2

n The action of faith, Heb. 11: 8 n hupakouo: “To listen, to harken…to a command …to obey…submit” (Thayer) n To heed, obey, 1 Sam. 15: 22; Jer. 7: 23 -24 3

n To obey God: Must listen and then submit to the commands of Christ, Acts 3: 22 -23 n God’s promise: When we obey we can be assured and confident of our standing with Him (2 Cor. 5: 17; Rom. 5: 1 -2) 4

WE KNOW n That we KNOW Him, 1 Jno. 2: 3 -4 n Know Him: “A knowledge grounded Personal in personal Experience experience” with Jesus is n ginosko: “to learn to obtained by know, come to know, OBEDIENCE! get a knowledge of … to know, understand, perceive, have 5

WE KNOW n To obey the doctrine of Christ is to have (to experience) the Father and the Son, 2 Jno. 9 Personal Experience n Disobedient do not know God; their sin is with Jesus is punished, 2 Ths. 1: 8 obtained by OBEDIENCE! 6

WE KNOW n That we LOVE Him, Jno. 14: 15, 21, 23 -24 n Do not obey Christ… LOVE do not love Christ is not an emotional n Love is an action of overwhelming; your will that yields to It is an action the will of Christ of your will 7

WE KNOW n That we LOVE Him, Jno. 14: 15, 21, 23 -24; n Plan of salvation LOVE (Mk. 16: 16) is not an n True worship (Jno. emotional overwhelming; 4: 24) It is an action n Godly living (1 Pet. of your will 2: 11) n Apostolic examples 8

WE KNOW n That we LOVE Him, Jno. 14: 15, 21, 23 -24 n The love of God is LOVE mature in the is not an obedient person, 1 emotional John 2: 5 overwhelming; It is an action n Let us not boast of of your will loving God when we will not obey His word! Mk. 12: 29 -30 9

WE KNOW n That we ABIDE in Him, 1 Jno. 2: 5 -6 n With His word abiding ABIDE IN in us we obey His To remain with; commands, 1 Jno. to be in 2: 24; 3: 24 relation with n Refuse His Christ word…forfeit fellowship, 2 John 9 10

WE KNOW Obedience has an impact on Eternal Life n That we have ETERNAL LIFE, Heb. 5: 9 n Obedience affects eternal salvation, Matt. 7: 21; Acts 10: 34 -35; 2 Pet. 1: 10 -11 n Obedience is not meritorious - it is the service of faith, Lk. 17: 10; Rom. 6: 16 -18

WE KNOW n That we have ETERNAL LIFE, Heb. 5: 9 n To repent of every sin (Lk. 13: 3) Obedience n To confess Him (Matt. 10: 32) acts when God speaks… n To be baptized to be unto saved (Mk. 16: 16) Eternal Life n To cleanse our hands and hearts (Jas. 4: 7 -8) n To be faithful even to the 12

GOD KNOW S n That we FEAR Him, Gen. 22: 1 -2, 7 -8, 12 -14 n Pharaoh’s disobedience showed he did not fear God, God rejects Exo. 9: 28 -30, 34 -35 lip service! n Israel paid lip service to God yet did not fear Him, Isa. 29: 13; Micah 3: 11 -12 13

GOD KNOW S n That we BELIEVE Him, Heb. 3: 16 -4: 2, 6 n God knew by Israel’s disobedience that they Obedience did not believe Him, shows our Psalm 78: 56 -57 trust in God knew Abraham’s obedient faith, Gen. 18: 19 14

n Does God know you OBEY JESUS NOW! because of your obedient faith? n Do you know God due to your obedient faith? n Wrath is reserved for those who do not obey the truth, Rom. 2: 8 (2 Ths. 1: 8 -9) 15