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The Life of Virtue, Part 6

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Obedience to God

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The Life of Virtue, Part 6 – Obedience to God

Objectives:

  1. The study the importance of obedience
  2. To see why I should obey God’s commands
  3. To see examples of obedience and disobedience
  4. To examine God’s commandments
  5. Instruction to obeying parents, priests, and servants
  6. To learn the blessings of obedience

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The Importance of Obedience

“but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17)

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The Importance of Obedience Cont.

  • Any sin is basically disobedience to God’s commands
  • If you know God’s commands, you should honor them and follow them
  • Before you do something, ask yourself I am obeying or violating God Commands

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The Life of Virtue, Part 6 – Obedience to God

Objectives:

  1. The study the importance of obedience
  2. To see why I should obey God’s commands
  3. To see examples of obedience and disobedience
  4. To examine God’s commandments
  5. Instruction to obeying parents, priests, and servants
  6. To learn the blessings of obedience

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Why Should I Obey God’s Commands?

  • Trust in God’s love to me
  • Trust in God’s wisdom
  • Trust in God’s capability

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Trust in God’s Love To Me

  • Facts

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  • God loves me as a person
  • God would do anything to make me happy
  • God will always want the best for me
  • God will always forgive me
  • God’s love to me is immeasurable

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God Prepared Everything For Me Before Me

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God Declared To Me His Commands in The Old and New Testaments

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The Sermon on The Mountain (Mathew 5-7)

  • Blessed are the …

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God Prepared Heaven For Me To Enjoy His Presence Forever

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Trust in God’s Wisdom

  • God is the source of wisdom for all humans
  • God’s wisdom is beyond our understanding
  • God’s wisdom may take years for us to understand it
  • God’s wisdom is stronger than the evil people’s plans

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Trust in God’s Wisdom Cont.

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Trust in God’s Wisdom Cont.

  • God’s wisdom overcame Joseph’s brothers’ jealousy

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Trust in God’s Wisdom Cont.

  • God’s wisdom Herod’s evil plan
    • Herod’s soldiers killed the Bethlehem children, but Jesus escaped death to Egypt

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Trust in God’s Wisdom Cont.

  • Satan’s plan to destroy the human race

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Trust in God’s Wisdom Cont.

  • Jesus redeemed us on The Cross as His plan for Salvation and overcame Satan’s plan to destroy the human race

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Trust in God’s Capability

“But He said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God” (Luke 18:27)

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Trust in God’s Capability Cont.

  • Impossible for man

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Trust in God’s Capability Cont.

  • Impossible for man
  • 30 days supply of fresh meat every day

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Trust in God’s Capability Cont.

  • Impossible for man
  • Manna from Heaven for 40 years

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Trust in God’s Capability Cont.

  • Impossible for man

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Trust in God’s Capability Cont.

  • Impossible for man
  • The flowing water formed a river

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Trust in God’s Capability Cont.

  • Impossible for man
  • The fall of Jericho by the trumpets

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Trust in God’s Capability Cont.

  • Impossible for man
  • Changing Hearts - Saul of Tarsus becoming the great St. Paul

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Trust in God’s Capability Cont.

  • Impossible for man
  • Changing Empires - Rome

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Trust in God’s Capability Cont.

  • Impossible for man
  • Changing Empires - Russia

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The Life of Virtue, Part 6 – Obedience to God

Objectives:

  1. The study the importance of obedience
  2. To see why I should obey God’s commands
  3. To see examples of obedience and disobedience
  4. To examine God’s commandments
  5. Instruction to obeying parents, priests, and servants
  6. To learn the blessings of obedience

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Examples of Obedience

  • Abraham
  • Moses
  • Elijah

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Examples of Obedience Cont.

  • Abraham

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Examples of Obedience Cont.

  • Moses obeyed God’s commands in 10 plagues

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Examples of Obedience Cont.

  • The widow obeyed Elijah and saved herself and her son

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Examples of Disobedience

  • Pharaoh
  • The Jewish People
  • Jonah

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Examples of Disobedience Cont.

  • Disobedience led to death

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Examples of Disobedience Cont.

  • Disobedience led to death
  • The Jewish people who worshipped the Golden calf never made it to The Promised Land

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Examples of Disobedience Cont.

  • Disobedience led to death

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The Life of Virtue, Part 6 – Obedience to God

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  1. The study the importance of obedience
  2. To see why I should obey God’s commands
  3. To see examples of obedience and disobedience
  4. To examine God’s commandments
  5. Instruction to obeying parents, priests, and servants
  6. To learn the blessings of obedience

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Obedience of God’s Commandments

  • The 10 Commandments
  • The Sermon on The Mountain
  • The Epistles

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1st Tablet Exodus 20 Deut. 5

  • I am the LORD your God and you shall have no other gods before me
  • You shall have no graven images or like to worship
  • Do not take the LORD's name in vain
  • Remember the Sabbath day (Saturday)

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1st Tablet Exodus 20 Deut. 5

  • Honor your father and your mother
  • You shall not kill
  • You shall not commit adultery
  • You shall not steal
  • You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
  • You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox or anything that is your neighbor’s

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The Sermon on The Mountain, Mathew 5-7

  • The Beatitudes (Blessings)

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  • Don't Put Your Light Under a Bowl

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  • The Lord's Prayer 

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  • Donation, fasting, and prayers

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  • Wise and Foolish Builders

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God’s Commandment �The Beatitudes (Blessings) - Mathew 5-7

  • Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Verse 3)

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  • Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land (Verse 4)

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  • Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted (Verse 5)

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  • Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they will be satisfied (Verse 6)

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God’s Commandment �The Beatitudes (Blessings) - Mathew 5-7

  • Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy (Verse 7)

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  • Blessed are the pure of heart: for they shall see God (Verse 8)

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  • Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God (Verse 9)

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  • Blessed are those suffer persecution for righteous sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Verse 10)

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The Wise and The Foolish Builders

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The Epistles Commands

“they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed” (Deuteronomy 16:16)

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“Be holy, for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16)

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The Epistles Commands Cont.

“Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10)

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“Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers” (Ephesians 4:29)

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Other Commands

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right” (Ephesians 6:1)

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“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear” (Deuteronomy 21:18-21)

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The Benefits of Obedience

  • God bless your life
    • List blessings at work, school, business, marriage, family, etc.

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  • God will support and protect you
    • Daniel and The 3 Young Men
    • St. Peter

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  • Obtaining Eternal Life

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The Benefits of Obedience

  • God bless your life
    • List blessings at work, school, business, marriage, family, etc.

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  • God will support and protect you
    • Daniel and The 3 Young Men
    • St. Peter

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  • Obtaining Eternal Life

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The Life of Virtue, Part 6 – Obedience to God

Objectives:

  1. The study the importance of obedience
  2. To see why I should obey God’s commands
  3. To see examples of obedience and disobedience
  4. To examine God’s commandments
  5. Instruction to obeying parents, priests, and servants
  6. To learn the blessings of obedience

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Review Questions

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Memorization Verses

  1. “We ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29)

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  • “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves” (James 1:22)

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  • “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him” (John 14:23)

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