GOD SAYS, “OBEY MY VOICE”

Jeremiah 7:23-24

 

Jeremiah was to give this message at the Temple Gate.  "Amend your ways and deeds and don’t trust in deceptive words."

 

Verse 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.’”

 

Two Positive Principles for Obedience

  1. 1 John 2:5 – The love of God has truly been perfected

  2. 1 John 3:24 – He abides in us and we in Him

 

Verse 24 –

“Yes 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.”

 

Two Negative Principles of Disobedience

  1. Ephesians 5:6 – The wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience

  2. Jeremiah 15:6 – You keep going backwards

 

         Jonah’s situation………..went backwards

         Abraham’s situation…….went forwards

 

God stepped up with what seemed like a cruel assignment…”Kill your boy”.

This is the story about a man who knew that obedience was more important than the potential losses incurred in the sacrifice.

 

The story of the Bible is filled with this principle:

If you want to come into God’s presence, everything else, even your most precious possession, has to be offered up to Him.

 

God was so adamant about this principle that he was willing to lay down His unblemished Son on this altar.

 

When we hear His voice, we must obey in order to stay on course with Him….

NOTHING ELSE REALLY MATTERS……

 

 

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