Topic: Obedience

You have no idea what one single act of obedience can set into motion, when you obey what our good God puts on your heart.

It is possible to be in church regularly, a good moral person and still be wicked in God’s eyes because you are not using your time, talents and treasures for the reasons God gave them to you? The question is not how religiously active you are, or how much you give, but have you surrendered everything to God?

JESUS does not deserve your leftovers! He deserves the 1st place in everything. He is FIRST; He went first, and He should be first in our lives.

You have a choice: you can either be part of the radical, self-sacrificial mission of Jesus, or you can walk in disobedience. There is no middle ground. Christ-followers often are willing to take some part of the Bible they like but not all of it. You’re either an active part of the mission or you are disobedient. Is it possible to be close our God’s heart without also being close to His mission?

There is a point where you surrender to God because you feel like you have to; then there’s a point where you start to love like God loves. You do what God does because you desire what God desires. God is not just after obedience, He’s after a whole new kind of obedience. He wants real repentance.

Jonah didn’t want to do what God told him to do. Why? (1) He was given a difficult job to do. Jonah had to expect that he would be mocked & treated harshly. He might be attacked & killed if he did what the LORD told him to do. (2) Jonah didn’t want the Assyrians in Nineveh to escape God’s judgment. So, why we don’t we what God tells us to do?

Series: The Time Is Now Week 3: The Blessings of…

“Give careful thought to your ways.” In what area of your life are you not putting God first? Are you putting your own comfort ahead of His calling?—Your house over His—Having more/doing more? Are you consumed with yourself instead of being consumed with God—Making a name over difference?