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Pastor Chris White says to all of you: HELLO MY FRIENDS. May the Lord bless you today.
HOLA MIS AMIGOS. Que el Señor los bendiga.
Obedience to God proves
our love for Him (1 John 5:2-3),
demonstrates our faithfulness to Him (1 John 2:3-6),
glorifies Him in the world (1 Peter 2:12), and
opens avenues of blessing for us (John 13:17).
Faith is necessary to please God (Hebrews 11:6), and
if our faith is genuine and true, we will live a lifestyle characterized by
righteousness, modeling the example set for us by Jesus Christ. We obey His
commands, not because we have to, but because we want to, because
we love Him. We are enabled to obey because, once we believe in Christ and are
saved, we are remade. We are not the same people we once were. As Paul wrote in
2 Corinthians 5:17, “If
anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
When we obey the Lord, we can live a life of joy, without shame, rooted deeply
in the Lord and confident in our eternal hope. “Where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is freedom” (2 Corinthians 3:17). Our
obedience is actually part of our assurance that
we truly know God (1 John 2:3).
When God’s children obey their Heavenly Father, He is glorified. Jesus told us
that the plan is for others to “see your good deeds and glorify your Father in
heaven” (Matthew 5:16). Of
course, performing “good deeds” requires obedience to the One who calls us to
good deeds. A Christian’s testimony of holiness is a strong witness that God is
at work in the world.
“Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in obedience to him” (Psalm 128:1). The
Bible often tells us that God blesses and rewards obedience. James 1:22-25 says,
“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
. . . 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.” See also Psalm 119:1-2.
God is gracious. If we haven’t been living for Him, if we haven’t been
following His commandments, if we’ve been living in and for the world, we can
be transformed by the blood of Jesus Christ. We can ask God for forgiveness,
and He will give it. And He will choose to forget the sin, just as if we had
never committed it in the first place. God is glorified when He extends
forgiveness, because it is written, “I will put my laws in their hearts, and I
will write them on their minds. . . . Their sins and lawless acts I will
remember no more” (Hebrews 10:16-17).
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