Publication date: Feb 27, 2023. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.. Jesus Calls Us to Obey In Jesus Christ, we find the perfect model of obedience. Labs She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. God's Call Is a Call to Obey God's Revelation The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it. Were Christians! The only way to know this triune God is by His revelation to us of Himself through His Word. And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments. You come at it from every angle and in every situation. The phone invariably rings when were reading the Bible. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase., And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. The book of Nahum portrays the LORD as the Divine _____. Obedience Is an Act of Worship Then Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the Lord and made them commit a great sin. Its not enough to know about God through His Word, although that is foundational (you cant love a God you dont know). Geocoding When you lie down points to bedtime as a great opportunity to talk with your children about their concerns and pray with them. We arent guaranteed of leaving such an impressive legacy. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Prophets: Jeremiah 12:17 But if they will not hear then (Jer. For the LORD God Almighty declares, "I will stir up a nation against you, Israel, that will oppress you all the way from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah." "But, behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel," Says the LORD God of hosts; "And they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath To the Valley of the Arabah." If you only teach them to obey you, then what happens when youre not around? Someone once accused me of being legalistic. When I asked why he said that, he replied, Because you preach obedience. If preaching obedience is legalism, then Jesus and the entire New Testament is legalistic! Its the principle of 2 Timothy 2:2: The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. There are four generations there: Paul, Timothy, faithful men, and others also. Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. As Jesus said (John 14:21), He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him. (See, also, John 14:23; 15:10, 14; 1 John 5:3.) G Psalm 2:8-12 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? And Jesus answered them, See that no one leads you astray. For her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Daniel declared, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. Exodus 32:9-14 (larger context 32:1-14) This passage is the first of two occasions where Moses intercedes for sinful Israel before an angry God who is ready to wipe them out -- and succeeds in appealing for mercy for them. We dont worship false gods! I have a coffee cup with a quote from John Calvin: Mans nature so to speak is a perpetual factory of idols. First John (5:21) ends with the terse warning, Little children, guard yourselves from idols. Its a danger! And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings! And Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.. So how can we, as Christian parents, raise up godly generations? . Does Proverbs 22:6 promise for certain that if we raise our children properly they will not go astray? For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The gate points to civic or social life as another chance to talk about God. Raise Up A Nation (1991) Lord Don't Move That Mountain Fret Not Make Me Over Lest I Stray Enter His Courts God's Got A Way John 3:16 God Never Fails Raise Up A Nation A Sinner's Prayer (1990) A Sinner's Prayer Come In What Will Tomorrow Bring Just For Me Mary Don't You Weep Numbers The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow Just When I Needed Him Most These people weren't perfect, but when God called them, he qualified them, enabled them, equipped them, and provided for them. The Lord will Raise up a Standard!! For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. . And on that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. But when youve got plenty, you tend to take it for granted. Jesus condemned the Pharisees because, although they were very religious and honored God with their lips, their hearts were far from Him (Mark 7:6-8). You can also point out Gods beauty through His creation. If youre often angry and yell at your kids at home, but then put on your Christian front when you go to church, your kids will conclude, If thats Christianity, I dont need it! If your kids see you and your wife angrily yelling at each other and not resolving conflicts in a godly way, but then you go to church and posture yourselves as an exemplary Christian family, your kids conclude that Christianity is just a religious game that doesnt affect real life. Or, if you dont show the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. The same promise is reiterated in Genesis 22 when Abraham was ready to obey God's command to sacrifice Isaac, his promised son. and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation. A Nation That Honors God God's love will reign supreme in our nation when our leaders and citizens truly fear Him. Our text tells us not only how to raise up godly children, but also godly grandchildren ( Deut. was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight. You follow this idol when you use the true God for the benefits He gives. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. . Some Jews, for example, obeyed verses 8 and 9 literally. For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they will lead many astray. The biblical prophets have much to say to us today, declaring not only what will happen but whyand how we are to receive this truth from God. I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. When God Calls, He also Equips - Bible Verses, Scriptures & Quotes . 2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. D His commands are like the rules of the road. Hallelujah! And from the throne came a voice saying, Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great. And the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery. V 1. ( Genesis 12:1) Abraham's call began with God speaking to him. Prophets were not chosen or elected by men, and they were not permitted to inherit the title or regard it as an official post to be filled by a man specially trained for it. There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. Obedience is the way to experience His blessing. The nation must turn to God The greatest problem our country is facing today is not political; it is spiritual. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. They will want to follow Him too. Let no one deceive you in any way. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. 14 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. CHAPTER 18. Even though we did this for years with our kids, we still had to be diligent to keep at it. Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants. Once more they cried out, Hallelujah! We are expected to act in faith on God's promises just as Abraham did, but we do that from a position of trust based on all the knowledge we have of God. Then it will be well with you (Deut. It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. Indeed, He will speak to this peopleThrough stammering lips and a foreign tongue. Y Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Predicting the end of the world, he calls on people to repent, yet . Notice also that God told them what to do. They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. 10:12). When you walk by the way implies teaching your kids when you go places together. If we say that we know and love God, but dont obey His commandments, were either deceived or lying (1 John 2:3; 5:3). From 1977-1992 he was the pastor of Lake Gregory Community Church in Crestline, California. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. When God calls us, He equips us - 5 Inspirational Biblical Examples #1 When God calls, He enables! Genesis 11:8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. As mentioned, the Hebrews came to take verses 8 and 9 literally. Thus he said: As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces. The prophet Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 32:30, quotes God's scathing indictment of the people of both Kingdoms: " [T]he children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth." Because of their sins, as II Kings 17:18-20 indicates, God. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! Our motivation for obedience is love: If you love me, you will keep my commandments. After all, the team needs all the players! We just had Black Friday and Cyber Monday, when retailers try to get us to rack up credit card debt because we think we need more stuff to be happy. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation. Thats the foundation for raising godly generations. At the end of the program, as Charles and Carolyn returned to their humble little farm, their children bounded out of the house, delighted to welcome them home with hugs. Theres the idol of affluence. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. He is unchangeable in His attributes and perfect in all His ways. shall eat the offerings--As the tribe of Levi had no inheritance allotted them like the other tribes but were wholly consecrated to the priestly office, their maintenance was to arise from tithes, first-fruits, and certain portions of the oblations presented on the altar . Also, you must love Him with your total being. Charles remarked to Carolyn, Now if thats not success, I dont know what is!. The results were ultimately disastrous, because it was the Pharisees, who outwardly kept the law to the letter, who killed their Messiah who preached the need for inward reality with God. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Raise R-U-K-U-S Tonight. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. Who has wrought desolations in the earth. ). Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. Let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.read more.Every survivor, at whatever place he may live, let the men of that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem., New American Standard Bible Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. The most important requirement for raising godly generations is for you to have personal reality with God. Eighty-six were state senators, three were state governors, three were U.S. Many Christian fathers wrongly think that child rearing is the wifes task. Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God. So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight.read more.When He had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. This is the central tenet of Judaism, recited daily by devout Jews. Details Or fastest delivery December 7 - 12. Thirteen were university presidents; at least 65 were college professors. We don't know exactly how this happened. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Prophets: Amos 6:14 For behold I will raise up against (Amo. Deuteronomy 6:4-6: Hear, O Israel! Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore; For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth. When your children are young, keep it short and use the story parts of the Bible. Deuteronomy 6:7: You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. Teach diligently in Hebrew means literally to sharpen or whet. 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