The Benefits of Obedience # 2

The Benefits of Obedience # 2

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 the land 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.

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Matt 15:12 Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

:13 But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
:14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.

Lk 12:46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

:47 And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

:48 But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

1 Cor 10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

2 Cor 1:20 For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.

Ps 84:11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

:12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You!

Lk 12:31 But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

The just shall live by faith. This is not a suggestion, but a command.

Pr 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understand;

:6 in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

:7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil.

Pr 4:20 My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

:21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart;

:22 for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

:23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.

:24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

:25 Let your eyes look straight ahead and your eyelids look right before you.

:26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

:27 Do not turn to the right or the left; remove your foot from evil.

1 Cor 10:11 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

Heb 5:9 And having perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,

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 the nations of the earth.

Mk 11:24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

Hearken means to hear and obey.

Observe means to hedge about, to protect, to guard.

Gal 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

:29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Eph 3:6 that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,

Ps 91:2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”

Deut 28:2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:

Eph 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Prov 22:7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Rom 13:8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.