EPISODE 950 – YOU ARE A CHILD OF OBEDIENCE
Apostle BennieCHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY
The Love-Life Agency
YOU ARE A CHILD OF OBEDIENCE
“so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.”
2 Corinthians 2:11 (ESV)
Disobedience to God is not automatic. One demonstrates disobedience when doubt, disbelief, and deception have fully germinated.
The adversary contributes to your disobedience through deception. He knows your disobedience will distract you from manifesting God’s glory.
To disobey is to act outside the faith. Obedience is to hear under faith. When one obeys God’s word, it is an act of faith. Obedience to God is proof of honour.
The adversary knows when you walk in disobedience you will walk outside the will of God for your life.
Men don’t always attribute their disobedience to God as anything wrong or evil. And even some acts of disobedience to God in some contexts may seem to be a good thing in others.
It may be something all men celebrate or will applaud you for, but it will be disobedience to God.
King Saul’s decision to disobey the Lord’s instruction on how to handle the battle with the Amalekites cost him his throne. He was a man after His own desires, but not the counsel of the Lord. He decided to keep the animals which were to be destroyed as spoils of war and for sacrificial offerings.
He even spared the life of King Agag as a showcase of his victory. But that wasn’t what God wanted. Even though, in the natural and religious sense, it looks like Saul did the right thing. Because offering sacrifices to the Lord was the right thing to do. But God’s response through Prophet Samuel wasn’t what Saul expected:
“But Samuel replied,
“What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams. Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as bad as worshipping idols. So because you have rejected the command of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.” 1 Samuel 15:22-23 (NLT)
Saul did what he did to satisfy his own interest. But that was a demonstration of ego and arrogance.
Always see your obedience to God, as an act of faith.
Saul (Paul the Apostle), acted differently with the Lord’s instruction. He said, “Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision” Acts 26:19 (KJV).
This was his response to the instructions he received from the Lord Jesus as he encountered Him on his way to Damascus to persecute the believers.
When you were born again, you came into the obedience of faith. Christ’s obedience became your obedience. And you were supplied with the ability of God to continue in the reality of His obedience. To obey the Lord is no longer mechanical but organic because God works in you both to will and to do (Philippians 2:13).
As a born-again, you don’t live under the rule of the devil. You are not his servant. Therefore, you don’t yield and obey his voice. You are no longer part of the children of disobedience.
It is the unsaved who is referred to as the son of disobedience.
“in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience” Ephesians 2:2 (NKJV)
You are now an obedient child of God because of Jesus Christ’s obedience.
Look at what Peter the Apostle said:
“As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance” 1 Peter 1:14 (ESV).
Don’t believe in the deception of the devil that you are not an obedient child of God.
The spirit of disobedience doesn’t have any authority over you. You are an obedient child of God and have the capacity to respond rightly to the Lord’s instructions.
Selah.
Isaiah 40-42
2 YEARS PLAN
Ruth 7
I live daily above disobedience. I am a child of obedience. I am not disobedient to the Word of the Lord, to His instructions and to the instructions of my leaders.
I remain humble at all times to be trained and raised by the Word.
Thank you Lord Jesus for Machaira with Apostle Bennie
Obedience to God is an act of Faith.
Thank you Lord Jesus!!
The spirit of disobedience doesn’t have authority over me!!
I am an obedient child of God and I have the capacity to respond rightly to the Lord’s instructions.
When you read the book of Romans 5 it makes it clear that through the disobedience of one man Adam death reigned through out the whole human race but through the obedience of Christ we enjoyed all that is good and perfect in God (James 1:17)
Jesus obeyed on our behalf that we should enjoy in him by believing.
We are not suppose to obey the Laws of Moses to be upright Jesus fulfilled all its requirement by overpaying the ransom that we should enjoy life in him by believing so obedience is by self effort but by the supply of what Jesus did in Calvary so we don’t act to become obedient but it is now our nature in Jesus so we do it with ease
I walk in obedience of the word
Am a child of obedience
The spirit of disobedience doesn’t have any authority over me. I am an obedient child of God and have the capacity to respond rightly to the Lord’s instructions.
And you were supplied with the ability of God to continue in the reality of His obedience. To obey the Lord is no longer mechanical but organic because God works in you both to will and to do (Philippians 2:13).
The Ability to respond to and obey God’s voice and instructions is NOW an inherent ability activated in the new creation.
Glory to God!
Thank you Lord for giving me that ability to respond in the right way to instructions
They key statement for me is …men could be applauding you but you are still disobedient
Thank you Lord Jesus
Disobedience is the negative response to not obey God’s word after doubt, deception and unbelief has saturated the heart!
But this is not us! When the Lord Jesus came and obeyed God! When we believed in Him He made us obedient children! We became obedient children of God.
Apostle Paul said wherefore king Agippa, i was not disobedient to the heavenly calling.
Dispbedience to God is something seen as right in men’s eyes and sometimes celebrated by men but God’s thoughts are higher.
To obey God sometimes may look absurd, hence, it requires faith to obey God!
Nothing built that Ark by faith, fulfilling God’s will and men mocked Him, creating doubt around the building but His faith kept him at it. So to obey God is an act of faith!
God calls us obedient children, meaning we are people who obey God!
Hallelujah!!