Obedience: the Christian Hallmark

So that we would know what it takes for us to obey God. Obedience, the Christian hallmark. So it's very, very key that we have to obey God and man. We have to stand with God in what we will read.

A lot of places we will read. But I want to say the best proof of your love for your Lord is obedience. The proof to show that you love God is obedience. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.

The word of God has even said, so if you love me, keep my commandments. The best proof is obedience. And that is what the devil is fighting. Don't want people to obey God.

People want to do what they want to do. So that's why God has brought this word. Obedient, The Christian hallmark. Do what you want.

Let me do my own. God created me. I'm the one to direct myself. I'm the one.

Why are you bothering me? He said, do this. No,. They want to do.

People want to do what their mind asks them to do. Even when they know that that is the word of God. They still have excuse. They still have a way to find make themselves right on what they are doing.

Obedience, the Christian hallmark. The best proof of your love for your Lord is obedience. I love God. I love God.

Are you ready to obey him? Can you obey even on the point of death? Can you relay how many? Yes, we love God everywhere.

Let's read. Look at their word. A lot of place for us to read, but let's look at the word first. Somewhere.

Chapter 15 from verse. From verse one. Can you read it for us first somewhere? Now, therefore.

Now therefore. Hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Yes, thus said the Lord. I remember that which.

Spared them but for slaves, man and woman, infant and suffering. Together. And number them in the line 200,000 different. And 10,000 men of E. And Saul said unto the can go.

In fact, let I destroy you with them. For you kindness. For you shewed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt. So the canine departed from among the Amalekites.

And Saul smote the Amalekite from Abilla until thou furnished to show that it over the many issues and it is the king of their mother cards alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. But the Saul and the people spared hazards and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the falcon and the lambs and all that was good and would more totally destroy them. For everything that was dry that day. Destroyed all that day destroyed all tale.

Yes, thank you. He was A mother who son of. The Lord all night. Yes, let us.

Okay, read verse 22. Let's see the kid. And the Lord has great. The Lord has great delight in warm offering our sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord.

You obey whether a sacrifice. And to hearken to the. To the. And to hearken is.

And to hearken than the fat of lamb. And to hearken than the fat of lamb. You can see what happened here. You can see what happened.

And until somebody said in that place. And Samuel said, had the Lord as great delight in burnt offering and sacrifice, as in obeying the voice of the Lord. Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of Ram. So this is what happened to people.

You can see what Samuel also said unto Saul. The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be the king over the people over Israel. Now therefore, hearken thou unto the voice of the word of the Lord. Thus said the Lord of hosts.

I remember that which that which Amalekites did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way when he came to came up from Egypt. Now go and fight Amalekite. And utterly destroyed all that they and spare them not but slay both men and women, infants, suckling oxen and camel and asses. And Saul gathered the people together and numbered them in 200,000 footmen, 10,000 men of Judah.

And Saul came to the city of Amalekite and laid wait in the valley. And Saul said unto the Kenites, go, depart. Get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For ye shew kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.

So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. And Saul smote the Amalekites from Hevelah until they come to shot that is over against Egypt. And he took Agath the king of Amalekite alive and utterly destroyed the people with the edge of the sword. And both Saul and the people spared Agath and the best of sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fattling and the lamb, and all that was good and would not utterly destroy them.

Disobedience. Go. The instruction was given. But what he loved, what he liked so much, that's what is happening.

What he loves so much, he left those ones. Now God was telling and somewhere said, had the Lord a great delight in burnt offering and sacrifice, as in obeying the voice of the Lord. Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice. And they hearkened than the fat ram he spared that verse nine said he spared those he wants.

But Saul and the people spared Agath and the best of his sheep and of the oxen and of the fatling and of the lamb and all that was good and would not utterly destroy them. But everything that was vials and refuse that they destroyed utterly. When God give you instruction, When God direct us, let's take grace from God to follow. Let us not consider what we are.

We are. We are looking at what you feel, how you look at it. This was a clear case. So God is looking for us in a church like this for God to do something.

He's looking for those that can obey him. He's looking for us to obey him. The best proof that we love God. You love your Lord is to obey him.

Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. If we love God, keep my commandment. If you love me, keep my commandment. No matter how he hurts you, no matter how you feel, or no matter how he treats whatever it is in you, keep the word of the Lord.

The demand for obedience. God. Clear instructions. He told them in where we have read.

He said Saul received a specific command. Go and spite and utterly destroy all that they have that they have and spare not. Did he do it? Go.

That was a command. Look at this one. This one. No.

Let this one be. Let this one be. That is what is happening in the church. That's what is happening in the church.

They don't want. We don't. People don't want to obey God. It's only what is.

It's good with them, is with them. God's instructions are clear, not confusing. He will look into the Bible. You see God instruction.

But we from time to time, we want to do what we want to do. We want to follow how we want it. We want it our own to come to pass. We want what we desire to be 19 to 22 of that same person.

I obey the voice of the Lord and have gone the way which the Lord has sent me. And I have brought anger and the king of Amherland. And I've totally destroyed Amalekites. For the people took of the spoil the sheath.

Anointing to cheat of the things which should have been mortally destroyed. To sacrifice unto the Lord thy God. Is that what they sent you? Yes.

22. Life. Exact. So that is exactly what every people, all people are doing.

They don't want to follow to the latter this one. They stop here. They look for how to quote it, how to make it to look like they are just on the line. But God told him here, God do not work on that.

God do not work on that. Somewhere said, had the Lord as great delight in burnt offering and sacrifice as in obeying the voice of the Lord. Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat realm. Those things you are gathering, those things that you think it is not.

Obedience is a hallmark. Obedience is better than sacrifice. So this is what God is telling us. God instructions are clear and not confused.

It doesn't confuse in any way. We shall observe to do therefore, as the Lord your God hath commanded you, Ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left hand. That's what God told the children of Israel in Deuteronomy. Don't go this way.

Don't go this way. Go as he has directed you. When Moses moved a bit to go and pray, they started, bring your chain. Bring this.

They started doing. Bring anger, Chief. Bring this, bring that. No, that is not the will of God.

Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God has commanded you. Ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. Keep on. Another.

Noah in Genesis, chapter 6, verse 22, quote. Thus did Noah. According to all that God commanded him, so did he. No question.

No modification. Read us. Read for us Genesis 6, 22. All that God commanded him.

Finish it. So did he. People were laughing. What is Noah doing?

But because God has commanded him, he didn't look at any other way. He didn't look at whatever he went on. They were laughing. What is this man doing?

They didn't know that God has commanded him. Build and act. Build it this way, do it this way. They hide this way.

Do this. They were laughing at him. Obedient is God is Christian. Hall Mark is the.

Mark is the corner is the real thing. Obedience is better than sacrifice. You pray, Pray, pray, pray. You ready?

Do, do, do, do. And you don't obey. It's something else. Noah, continue.

That he didn't see anything because God has commanded him. And then he didn't change. What happened at the end? Rain came at the end.

There was people were gathered. At the end people said, so what that Noah was doing was. Was right. I thought it was plain.

Yet they all perish this time around. Not happening this way. So this is it. Sometimes we say, partial obedience is disobedient.

Partial obedience is disobedient. He said, right, Let me do what I can do. I can't do this one is what? Disobedient.

Let's read the same place. If you see it in that first somewhere. Chapter 15, verse 9. But Saul and the people spare Agath and the best of the sheep.

Partial obedience. Can you see? Partial obedience. Yes.

Can you read? Let us see. So that it will not be like. And all that was good what interests them.

Yes. And not utterly destroyed as he was instructed. For everything that was bad and reduced that. Yeah, look at that.

That is exactly the church people are doing. That is exactly what people are doing every day. God has given his instruction. They don't want to obey God.

Maybe because I think it's very good. Very delicious. Or they very very. They like so much that order.

I cannot go that way. No. For that reason. Let me look for reasons why I should not obey.

But the instruction of God was destroy all saw good wand. All over. Okay, let me keep this one. You know that is it.

That is it. The base of the ship carried them. How can I destroy this? Depends of what I so love this one.

How can I do this? Lot wife. Was another one. Lot wife.

Partial obedience. Lot wife. What was instruction? Run.

Don't look back. Okay. We are grown now. We have grown.

We have gone far. We have gone far. When he hear boom. They said, don't turn back.

Ah, let me turn some more. What happened? What happened? Told to run, not look back.

She looked back. Partial obedience. The judgment came immediately. Judgment came.

Partial obedience. Yes, we have run now. We have gone to church. But have you gone to do what God asked you to do?

We have been going. Some say I've been going there Now I only go when I can go. Partial obedience. Partial obedience.

Happened to Lord Eastern judgment became the pillar of salt. When they think about what is happening, what he left behind. Ha. Those things.

Remember soup. Remember his own clothes. Some of the things he didn't carry. I hope it's not that that I hear that sound.

It's not my gas cook or my this thing that exploding. Eternal partial obedience. God don't want that. For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offended in one point.

He is guilty of all. He is guilty of all. Partial obedience. Partial obedience.

What are we doing? Partial obedience. Abraham counted for as righteousness because of obedience all. He did not go.

He was a very wicked person. He was all over. But because of obedience to God was counted for righteousness. Go.

He made it. Partial obedience. James, chapter two, verse ten. Verse 10.

You keep the whole law. I've been going to church. I've been doing. I'm the one doing.

I'm the one doing. But guilty in. But yet offend in one point. He is guilty of all.

Is the Bible partial obedience, the danger of disobedience. There are lots. There's a lot danger of disobedience. Sore downfall because of the disobedience.

There are a lot of dangers. Because of that. The root fear of man over fear of God. Look at that Aga.

All these people not remembering, not thinking what God has said. Not thinking. Okay, he said in that. First Samuel, chapter 15, verse 24.

Look at what he said. What's all said at the end? 1St Samuel 15:24. Look at it.

Say, I've seen. For I have transgressed the commandment. Because I feared people. Because I feared people.

Is it people that you fear or God you will fear? The instruction of God was there. You feared people. You feared people.

Yes, read, let us see. 24. For. For.

I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and thy Word. Yes, because I feared the people and obey their voice. See, confusion can come. See all this is very beautiful.

You see this one? You see this one? You. What did God tell you?

Go and destroy all. Spare nothing. You look at that. You look at the size of the people.

Look at the size of the animal. Sheep, you know? Oh, because I fear the people. Dangers of disobeying disobedience.

Peter case the apostles. We ought to obey God rather than obey man. He stood. We ought to obey God rather than obey men.

What can we say? Can we say like that? Can we say like the Peters. You ought to obey God rather than men and stand obedience the hallmark of Christians.

We ought to Some will give excuse. Use word of God to cover up religious things to cover up. Saul did that. The people took of the.

Of the spoil to sacrifice unto the Lord. Is that what they send you? Is that what they send you? They took the.

This. Okay, let me go. Let's go and pray. You change the whole thing.

You change the whole thing. Danger. Danger. To obey is better than sacrifice.

Say we went to carry and sacrifice. Is that what to be obedient is better than sacrifice? What you did then. Yes, you did.

You did it to God. You think? But obedience was no better than what that sacrifice, that prayer. Whatever you are doing, obey God first.

There are many dangers. There are many dangers caused over time. Cain brought sacrifice without obedience to God, to God's standard and he was rejected. So what are you going to do?

What many people. Many people believe unbelievers. They believe this is very small thing. They must have killed.

They must have done everything instead of going to ask God, have mercy upon me. They Carry the money. They must have robbed all over. Still they carry the money.

I will come and build this place for you. Everybody will clap. Because thou had rejected the word of the Lord, he had also rejected thee from being king. That was that.

When we reject God, when we reject the word of the Lord, Nothing, nothing else. Obedience. The hallmark. The hallmark.

Which one are we going to say? Is it the Adam and Eve in Book of Genesis, chapter three, verse, verse 17. Can you read that? Danger of disobedience.

Yes. 17 To 19. Because thou had act unto the voice of thy wife. Sin thou shalt not.

Till today. Yes. Ths also. And pistols shall be bring forth.

And thou shalt eat the earth of the sweat of thy face. Shall thou eat bread till thou return. For thus thou art. That is it.

Danger of disobedience. Don't eat. Don't go there. Don't mix with them.

Don't be with them. He went in. He said, my wife deceived me and the Lord. And unto Adam he said, because thou art hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and has eaten the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it.

Cursed is the ground for thy sake. In sorrow shall thy eat of it. And all the days of thy life. Till today, people are suffering because of that.

You could have done something very easy you could have done. But you go there, struggle, struggle, struggle before the thing come out. Why disobedience before the thing comes out? One single.

If there were so many things there for them to enjoy, but their mind was there is today happening today, still happening in the church in every way. Thorns also. And tittles shall it bring food to thee. And thou shalt eat the herbs of the field.

In the sway of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground until you die. That is it. You see people suffering now. Going suffering, suffering.

The country turning up and down. Disobedience. Danger of disobedience. One act of disobedience caused them hidden, caused them to miss one, just one act today.

How many of the of the disobedient do you think is still causing so many people? Some cause their life, some cause degenerational issues. The example of obedience. They look at it, Jesus.

Our patterns are examples. Follow me. Follow me. Just follow.

Follow his footsteps and his meat. What he loved was obey the voice of his Master. That was that. Have we followed that pattern.

Christ was obedient. Christmas was obedience. My meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work. My meat.

Jesus Christ was saying that my meat is to do, to continue and to finish it. That's what my. That's Jesus. How many people are ready to say follow it.

To follow Jesus that way. John 4. 4:34. John 4:34.

My meat. My. Jesus said unto them. My meat is to do the will of you.

My meat is to do the work that sent me. Yes. And to finish his work. Is that our meat?

Is that our meat? That is the pattern. That's what we should follow. Followed Jesus all the way.

He said his meat was to do the will of his Father that sent him. No matter what happened, he continued obedient even unto death. He didn't care. Being found in a fashion as a man.

He humbled himself and became obedient unto death. Became obedient unto death. Follow. You know the masters.

Follow the Master. Follow the Master. Not my will, but thy will be done. Judge Jesus Christ.

He keep following the will of the Master. Obedience. He was his meat. Obedience.

Obedience. Total obedience. We have really mentioned about Abraham. Take now thy son and offered him.

He rose early and he went in. He didn't care. He didn't care. Obedience.

Total obedience. Obedience is the hallmark of Christian faith. He didn't care. He didn't bother.

He knew that the Lord will provide. He was convinced that the Lord will provide. If he doesn't provide, let it be. I have to obey the one that sent me.

I have to obey. I have to obey. Luke, chapter one, verse 38. Let's see another.

If they say men, men. Let's see. Mary also obey. Mary the mother of Jesus also obey.

Yes, verse 38. Be unto me according to thy word. That's it. I will not go.

I will not do any other thing. Since you have said it. Since the angel has said it, I believe I'm not going and not doing anything. The angel has spoken.

Obey. Obedience. Obedience. Be unto me according to thy word.

Accepted. A costly assignment. So this is what we are. We've been told other disciples, they left their net with no Paul, you know, left their net and followed Jesus.

Obedience. I've been doing this. This is my work. This is my occupation.

And you say I should leave it and follow. They left and follow. The reward. Let's look at the reward of obedience.

Your obedience will cost you something. If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me daily. That's the cause. The cause of obedience.

Deniers. There are a lot of things. We miss so many things. But that is for you to Obey God.

Obedience is better than sacrifice. We need to obey God. Others, Shadrach, Mesheda, rabbenego, obey God at the risk of their life. There is.

He could have said, no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't want to. Don't put me there. Don't put me there. But they obey God, and God appear before them.

And God manifests himself in their midst. So this is what God is telling us. Obedience is a hallmark. Obedience.

At the end of it all, if you really obey God, you will receive the reward. The reward you have will be more. Reward you have will be more. If thou shalt hearken diligently on all these, all these blessings to the Word of God to do whatever I want you to do.

All these blessings shall follow you. That Deuteronomy 8:28 he's saying that all these blessings. He started enumerating obedience. Obedient pace, obedient pace.

So all these blessings, if you should hearken into the voice of the Lord. But how many people will want to obey God than man? How many? Christ lay in obedience and became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey.

Blessed are they that do these commandments that they may have right of. Right of the tree of life. That's the word of God. Blessed are they that believe that they will have eternal life.

But the devil is fighting disobedience in such a way that many people don't want you. Many people don't want you. Obedience is not when we agree with God. It is when we yield.

Even when we don't understand, we don't even know what it is. These are the things that our fathers or our Petrarch people that were before us, they yield. People think, why are they doing that? I never knew.

To obey God. To obey God is something else. If we are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. If you are willing.

And obedience, you shall eat the good of the land. That's what we are eating today. That's what we are seeing today, the good of the land. Obedience.

He extends it goes beyond. He goes beyond. He lives after every other world. Disobedience, in other words, also have extended.

Can extend the word of Adam. And we are still seeing it till today. It's the same thing. If you obey, you will eat the good of the land.

Divine instruction, demand, prompts, obedience, delay. Obedience is disobedient. If you don't want to keep it, it's the disobedience. So I made haste, make haste all over too, and delay not to keep it the commandment of God.

Let's see. Psalm 119, verse 60. Should make haste. We should make haste to keep it.

I make haste. I delay not to keep thy commandments. Yes, I make haste. David was saying this.

I make haste. I hurry and delay not to keep thy command. Because he knows the repercussions. He knows the danger of not keeping the commandment of God, of not obeying him.

We should examine yourself, examine thyself. Are you substituting the obedience or church attendant for surrendering to God? Is there anything you because of this? I'm doing this.

So for that reason I'm not doing this. That's not a good one. We should not do that like Saul. Are you keeping part of God's word and rejecting parts?

That's what we should think about. What the church should think about. What we should think about. We need to pray.

God to have mercy. We need to pray. We need to surrender. Surrender my life.

Help me to totally obey your word all at all times, whether convenient or costly. In Jesus name. Amen. God help me.

Help me. Help me. Help me. He that had my commandments and keep them is like that.

He loved me. He loved me. That shows that. Evidently you love God.

What he says. I do. Because of the love you have for him. So this is what God is telling us.

That is what God is telling us. He has spoken to us about disobedience. So if there are things that we disobey God, we have to pray. God have mercy.

I want to obey you. Because obedience is better than sacrifice. We cannot. There are a lot of sacrifice.

There are a lot of things we should do. Even pray. We cannot pray. So the only thing is follow his instructions.

Follow his word. Abraham did it. Even despite whatever. That would do a lot of things for us.

That would do a lot of things. Shall we go to God in prayer?