Obeying at His Word

 Covenant - “An agreement between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.”  Hebrews 10:16-17  God’s Covenant to Moses  Exodus 23:23-30 – “You shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water”

 God’s Covenant with Moses  Exodus 24:3-8 – “All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.”  Our Commitment to must be described as “Obeying at His Word.”  Jeremiah 42:2-6 – “Whether it is pleasing or displeasing, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God”

 Our Commitment to must be described as “Obeying at His Word.”  Mary ▪ Luke 1:38 – “Let it be to me according to your word”  Ruth ▪ Ruth 1:14-18 – “wherever you go, I will go”

 Doing what is Right

 Ephesians 4:20-24 – “put on the new man… in true righteousness and holiness”  Where do we look in “Doing what is Right”?  II Timothy 3:16-17 – “All scripture… is profitable… for instruction in righteousness”  Psalm 19:7-10 – “The statues of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart”

 Deuteronomy 6:1-3 – “be careful to observe it”  – “you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord”  – “it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe”  Deuteronomy 7:9-12 – “you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them”  Deuteronomy 8:1 – “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe”

 Deuteronomy 10:12-13 – “what does the Lord you God require of you”  Deuteronomy 11:1 – “keeps His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always”  – “if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do”  Deuteronomy 12:1 - “all the days that you live on the earth”  – “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it”

 Doing what is Right  Seeking to Please

 II Corinthians 5:9 – “we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him”  Colossians 1:9-10 – “that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him”  I Thessalonians 2:4 – “even we speak, not as pleasing men, but God”  Acts 5:29 – “we ought to obey God rather than man”

 Hebrews 13:20-21 – “to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight”  I John 3:22 – “do those things that are pleasing in His sight”  NOT: John 12:42-43 – “they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God”

 Doing what is Right  Seeking to Please  Fulfilling Our Duty

 Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 – “Fear God and Keep His commandments, For this is man’s all”  Luke 17:7-10 – “We have done what was our duty to do”  I Corinthians 6:18-20 – “you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body”

 Are you “Doing what is Right”?  Are you “Seeking to Please God”?  Are you “Fulfilling your Duty”?  Are you “Obeying God at His Word”?  Why not this morning? Why not now?  II Corinthians 6:2 – “now is the accepted time”

 Hear the Word of God (Acts 18:8)  Believe in Jesus (Mark 16:16)  Repent of Sins (Acts 2:38)  Confess Faith in Christ (Acts 8:37-38)  Be Baptized in Water (Galatians 3:26-27)  Remain Faithful (Revelations 2:10)  If err, repent and pray to God (Acts 8:22)