The Benefits of Obedience
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Jer 7:21 Thus says the Lord
of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your
sacrifices and eat meat.
:22 For I did not speak to
your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of
the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.
:23 But this is what I
commanded them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and
you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have
commanded you, that it may be well with you.'
:24 Yet they did not obey or
incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of
their evil hearts and went backward and not forward.
:25 Since the day that your
fathers came out of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all
My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
:26 Yet they did not obey Me
or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than
their fathers.
:27 “Therefore you shall
speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall
also call to them, but they will not answer you.
:28 “So you shall say to
them, 'This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord
their God nor receive correction. Truth has perished and has been cut
off from their womb,
Verse 23 says: Obey My voice
and walk in all the ways that I commanded you that it may be well
with you.
Obedience means act of
compliance, submission, willingness, complying with a willing
submission.
Obey means do, observe,
submit, act of compliance to an act, order, demand, command, request.
Forced obedience is not
really obedience.
One of the benefits of
obedience is He will be your God and you can be His people.
1 Sam 15:22 So Samuel
said:”Has 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, and to heed than the fat of rams.
IS 1:10 Hear the word of the
Lord, you rulers of Sodom: give ear to the law of our God, you people
of Gomorah:
:11 “To what purpose is
the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” says the Lord. “I have
had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed cattle. I do
not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats.
:12 “When you come to
appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My
courts?
:13 Bring no more futile
sacrifices; incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the
Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies – I cannot endure iniquity
and the sacred meeting.
:14 Your New Moons and your
appointed feasts my soul hates; they are a trouble to Me, I am weary
of bearing them.
:15When you spread out your
hands, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you make many
prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
IS 1:19 If you are willing
and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.
Is 29:13 Therefore the Lord
said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths and
honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me,
and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men
Ecc 5:1 Walk prudently when you go to the house of God; and draw near to hear rather than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.
Gal 4:8 But then, indeed,
when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not
gods.
:9 But now after you have
known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again
to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in
bondage?
:10 You observe days and
months and seasons and years.
Luke 6:46 “But why do you
call Me 'Lord, Lord', and not do the things which I say?
Jn 6:28 Then they said to
Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”
:29 Jesus answered and said
to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He
sent.”
Deut 26:16This day the Lord
your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments;
therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart
and with all your soul.
:17 Today you have
proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His
ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and
that you will obey His voice.
:18 Also today the Lord has
proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you that
you should keep all His commandments,
:19and that He will set you
high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in
honor, and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, just
as He has spoken.”
Josh 1:8 This Book of the
Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it
day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is
written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then
you will have good success.
Matt 7:21 Not everyone who
says to Me, 'Lord, Lord' shall enter the kingdom of heaven but he who
does the will of My Father in heaven.
Acts 5:29 But Peter and the
other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than
men.
Ex 19:5 Now therefore, if
you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be
a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
One version has peculiar
treasure. It means private property which is laid up or reserved,
select, precious, endeared treasure, exceedingly priced, intends to
preserve.
Deut 7:24 And He will
deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name
from under heaven; no one shall be able to stand against you until
you have destroyed them.
1 Kings 3:14 So if you walk
in My ways, to keep My statutes, and My commandments, as your father
David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
Ps 91:16 With long life I
will satisfy him, and show him My salvation.
Job 36:11 If they obey and
serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years
in pleasure.
Zech 3:7 Thus says the Lord
of hosts:”If you will walk in My ways, and if you will keep My
command, then you shall also judge My house and likewise have charge
of My courts; I will give you places to walk among these who stand
here.
James 1:27 Pure and
undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit
orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted
from the world.
1 Jn 3:22 And whatever we
ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do
these things that are pleasing in His sight.
All these things are ours if
we obey.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are those
who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of
life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
Heb 5:8 though He was a Son,
yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
:9 And having been
perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey
Him,
Jn 14:21 He who has My
commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves
Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest
Myself to him.
Jn 15:10 If you keep My
commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My
Father's commandments and abide in His love,
Rom 5:19 For as by one man's
disobedience many were made sinners, so aso by one Man's obedience
many will be made righteous.
Heb 10:9 then He said,
“Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the
first that He may establish the second,
Jn 14:21 He who has My
commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves
Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest
Myself to him.”
:22 Judas (not Iscariot)
said to Him, “ Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to
us, and not to the world?”
:23 Jesus answered and said
to him, “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.
2 Jn :6 This is love, that
we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that
as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
Deut 28:1 Now it shall come
to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to
observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today,
that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the
earth.
