Pew 2 You
Suzanne Fitzgerald
Blessed to Say Yes!
June 11, 2017
Highlights:
1.) Obedience is NOT:
– Loitering (being idle with no purpose; in disobedience to a command from the Lord)
– Procrastinating (good intentions without follow through)
– Conditional (tempted to lean on our own understanding; cannot let our questions delay our obedience)
– Selective (partial obedience)
– Hearing only (leads to deceiving ourselves)
2.) Obedience IS:
– Lordship (practical acceptance of the authority of God)
– An expression of love (relational)
– Trust in action
3.) Rewards of Obedience:
– Long Life
– Protection
– Gladness
– Great Peace
– The assurance of salvation
– Answers to prayer
– The conscious presence of Christ
Discussion Questions:
1.) Can you think of a time where you’ve feared man more than God? How did that affect your choices and decisions?
2.) Take time to ponder and ask God for insight on your life. Are there areas where you have chosen to selectively obey or loiter where He’s called you to action? Has your obedience been conditional? Take time to repent where needed and receive His forgiveness.
3.) Recall the rewards for obedience. How has God touched your life through your choices to seek and obey Him?
Key Scriptures:
I will hurry, without delay, to obey your commands.
Psalms 119:60 NLT
We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light.
Colossians 1:11-12 NLT
Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt. He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword. But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambseverything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed.
1 Samuel 15:7-9 NIV
I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions. Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the Lord all that night. When Samuel reached him, Saul said, The Lord bless you! I have carried out the Lord s instructions. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord , he has rejected you as king. Then Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned. I violated the Lord s command and your instructions. I was afraid of the men and so I gave in to them.
1 Samuel 15:11, 13-13, 23-24 NIV
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it they will be blessed in what they do.
James 1:22-25 NIV
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
John 14:21 NIV