Either God is in control or we think we are.
Either God is in control or we think we are. If God is in control then we bow to His will, not ours. If we are in control then we do whatever we feel like doing or not doing. Is it God or is it us? If God then we must obey God not doing our will. Is it God's will be done or our will be done or ours? We don't have to understand to obey, we obey and hope for understanding.
Exodus {19:5} Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine
Obey God's voice.
Deut. {13:3}...for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. {13:4} Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
Walk after the Lord your God...obey his voice.
Deut. {27:9} And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. {27:10} Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day
Obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
Deut. {30:2} And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul
Obey his voice.
Deut. {30:20} That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days
Obey his voice.
1 Sam. {12:14} If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then
shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God
Obey his voice.
1 Sam. {15:22} And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams.
Obeying the voice of the Lord. Obeying better than sacrifice.
Jere. {7:23} But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all
the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Obey my (God's) voice.
Jere. {11:3} And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed [be] the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, {11:4} Which I commanded your fathers in the day [that] I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God
Obey my (God's) voice.
Jere. {11:7} For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day [that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. {11:8} Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart...
Obey my (God's) voice. Yet they obeyed not... everyone walked in the imagination of their evil heart. Obey God, His will be done, not ours.
Jere. {26:13} Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you
Obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Jere. {42:6} Whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.
Obey the voice of the LORD our God.
Daniel {7:27} And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Obey him.
Daniel. {9:10} Neither have we obeyed the oice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. {9:11} Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that [is] written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
Obey him.
Zech. {6:15} And they [that are] far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Acts {5:29} Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Obey God rather than men.
Romans {6:16} Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
His servants you are to whom you obey.
1 Pet. {4:17} For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God? {4:18} And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? {4:19} Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls [to him] in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
Obey the gospel God.
Obey...
obey (o-bâ´) verb
obeyed, obeying, obeys verb, transitive
1.To carry out or fulfill the command, order, or instruction of.
2.To carry out or comply with (a command, for example).
verb, intransitive
To behave obediently.
[Middle English obeien, from Old French obeir, from Latin oboedìre, to listen to : ob-, to. See ob- + audìre, to hear.]
- obey´er noun
Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary
From Latin-- to listen, to hear.
Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language
1. (v. t.) To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of.
2. (v. t.) To submit to the authority of; to be ruled by.
3. (v. t.) To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of; as, a ship obeys her helm.
4. (v. i.) To give obedience.
Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language
1. (n.) The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
2. (n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.
Submitting ourselves to God.
Subject to God's rule.
Listening, hearing, yielding to God.
Executing the commands of God.
Submission to, complying with God's orders.
Ruled by God.
Only good comes from obeying the voice of God, of harkening to His commands. Only good. Ultimate good, not earthly good necessarily. Jesus obeyed the voice of His father implicitly. There wasn't a single command of God's that Jesus broke, not one. Jesus died. Jesus' death was for us. Jesus said...
Luke {22:42} Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
Nevertheless not my will but thine be done.
Jesus gave His life obeying the will of His Father. Obeying the voice of the LORD God.
Jesus is our example and we must obey the voice of the LORD our God. Not our will, but God's.
Do we have to understand? No. We are called to obey, not obey after we've picked apart everything and find it to our liking, discarding it if we don't. It's not our liking that matters, it's obeying our Creator, our Heavenly Father, the LORD God.
Ro. {5:21} That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
By the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Not our will but thine oh Lord!
Help us to obey the voice of the LORD God, through Your righteousness, by Your grace and mercy now and always.
Amen.
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Joh 9:26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
Joh 9:27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?
Joh 9:28 Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
Joh 9:29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
Joh 9:30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Joh 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Joh 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
Joh 9:33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
Joh 9:34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
Over a thousand and then some years removed from Moses and the Pharisees uttered these words- 'We know that God spake unto Moses' How did they know except by believing in history, believing in things taught to them? They didn't witness first hand God speaking to Moses, they believed because they were taught to believe. They believed their forefathers and accepted Moses law as a law from God and why not, history related the many miracles wrought by God though Moses. Miracles. Those in Moses day didn't readily believe He was from God either, did they? At first they did, when they thought He was going to miraculously set them free, but then Moses, following God's orders went to Pharoah and Pharoah was angry making the people's work harder than ever at which point this was said--
Exo 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
Exo 6:7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Exo 6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
Exo 6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
They hearkened NOT.
Exo 10:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
Exo 10:2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
Moses came with many signs, many miracles were wrought and the people of Israel believed finally but at first they did what... they hearkened NOT unto Moses. The Pharisees in Jesus' day were confronted with miracles unexplainable miracles, miracles that surely had to be from God because like the blind man said-- Joh 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. Joh 9:33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
This wasn't a sign that a magician could work in any way at all under any pretense. Healing flesh, making eyes for a man born blind to see from. This was of God! Yet the Pharisees just as Pharaoh hardened their hearts to God. This time the Pharisees held fast to the fact they were believers of Moses and therefore would not change their ways to believe any other. Even though the books (scrolls) they took their history from revealed a 'Messiah' to come. They wanted the Messiah to be their IDEA of a Messiah, another Moses that would work signs and wonders to free them from Roman bondage, they didn't want a Messiah who was going to free them from their sin bondage.
Today many don't believe in Jesus Christ as a personal, real Savior. He's a fable of old, he's explained away with natural phenomena, as people have done to Moses. Jesus Christ isn't here on earth today but in heaven on our behalf preparing for us. He wants to live in us, the Holy Spirit was sent by Him to us to live in us. We can't be like the Pharisees who held fast to a past. We have to be like the blind man who believed. Our spiritual sight can be returned to us by the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Lord of all, Creator of all now and forever! By His Will.
Amen.
5/2/11