Morality Really Matters: Part 2 of 2 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Pastor Randal Pelton - Faithful Presence: Morality Really Matters - Part 2 of 2
Morality Really Matters: Part 2 of 2 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
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Praise God for a preacher who still teaches "obedience"!!
ReplyDeleteGerry
The reason why more and more people don’t believe what Christians claim is because they see too many stark incongruences between what is preached and what is lived. We need to hear the call to discipleship – faith that yields obedience – once again.
ReplyDeleteKate
In chapter 10 of Deuteronomy and verse 12 it says, "And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee?" And that is a very important statement. What does God want? What is the bottom line request from God? When it's all boiled down, what does God want from you? "But to fear the Lord your God to walk in all His ways and to love Him and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command thee this day for thy good."
ReplyDeleteWhat is the bottom line? It is to love the Lord your God to the extent that you walk in all His ways, that you serve Him with all your heart and all your soul, that you keep His commandments and His statutes which He commands you.
In other words, to boil it all down to one word, loving the Lord your God is a matter of obedience. It is a matter of doing that which He has commanded to be done, of serving Him with a whole heart and a whole soul. Now there's no room for anything else and that's why it says in the book of James that anything less than total abandonment with God becomes a prostitution. He says that if you try to love God and love the world, you become an adulterer or an adulteress. You prostitute yourself off to an invasion into the unique and intimate and wholehearted relationship you're supposed to have with the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the bottom line. We are to love God.
Pastor Bob