THE TEST OF YOUR OBEDIENCE

TUESDAY, 26TH JULY, 2022.

Topic: THE TEST OF YOUR OBEDIENCE

MEMORIZE: “Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you." Genesis 12:1.

SCRIPTURE READING: Genesis 12:1-4.

 “Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.” 

EXPOSITION:

Obedience in its simpler Old Testament meaning the word signifies "to hear," "to listen." It carries with it, however, the ethical significance of hearing with reverence and obedient assent. In the New Testament a different origin is suggestive of "hearing under" or of subordinating one's self to the person or thing heard, hence, "to obey." There is another New Testament usage, however, indicating persuasion from.

The relation expressed is two-fold: first, human, as between master and servant, and particularly between parents and children. "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that, will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place" (Deuteronomy 21:18, 19; compare Proverbs 15:20); or between sovereign and subjects, "The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me" (2 Samuel 22:45; 1Chronicles 29:23).

In our text today, God tested the obedience of Abraham as He asked him to leave his father’s house and country to a land unknown. Some of things he would have forfeited includes: (a) His father’s house   (b) His father’s inherited landed property, etc, In obedience, he left all to follow God. At the end, he has nothing to loss. 

How are you obeying your heavenly father (God)? Partial obedience equals disobedience. How you obeying only when it is convenient? Before great thing of the kingdom can be handed over to you, you must pass the test of obedience to God and the constituted authority. Many of our fathers in faith learned obedience in hard way – people like prophet Jonah. Don’t be like him.

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PRAYER POINT: 

LORD, I don’t want to learn obedience in hard way. Help me and my family to follow you willingly and obediently in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Song of Solomon 1 - 4.

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