Obedience To God Rev James Okine 4th Aug 2024

Over the period we've been talking about the Great Commandments.

And I remember past that we were starting with us

and talking to us about the Great Commandments, which is

loving God, loving God. And I remember the scripture reference

it gave us match chapter twenty six, verse thirty six

to forty loving God. And last week I continued by

sharing with you some of the signs that show that

you love God. Because I said, I'm going to church.

That does not mean you love God. Paying your tithe

does not mean.

You love God.

Praying in church does no mean you love efact, I fact,

give it a free and giving to support the projects

of the church does not mean you love God.

Like this ye has impact. You can't decide that you

want to come and give.

Our Father twenty billion dollars.

It doesnt still mean you love God. It does still

mean you love God.

So loving God, there are so many things that show

that you love God. And last week I remember sharing

with you one of the signs that shows that you

love God, and I said that laughing your neighbor, it's

one of the signs that show that you love God.

And the scripture I gave us mad two twenty six,

there's thirty eight there's thirty eight.

The statuy says that love your neighbor as yourself. Today,

I want to move into.

Another sign, And the sign you want to talk about

today is that if you love God, you obey him.

So you can title it obedience to God, so that

after after I finished preaching, when we are doing discussion,

we will not have three different topics or titles obedience

to God.

So, if you love God, you obey God. Amen.

Now it's obedience is a very I've come to understand

that obedience is a very great sacrifice. To obey somebody

is a very great sacrifice.

It's a sacrifice.

Last week I was telling you that anytime you read

the Bible and you come across do it means that

by default it is it is something you will not do.

By default is something that is not easy to be done.

So when you see do love your neighbor, do this,

do that, it means that it is very difficult to do.

And I said that when you see it, don't do it,

don't do be don't puny it. Don't Still it means

that it is very easy to puny it. One of

the easiest thing to do is to sing saying is

very easy to do, but loving God is very difficult. Yeah,

and this are some of the realities that a lot

of times past. There's like me, we are able to

tell you, But I've decided I look me. I'll tell

people the reality so that you can save God well

and self God genuinely.

Amen.

Let me tell you a story. There was a very

poor man who sat by the wayside begging for money.

He's been begging for years, and one day a rich man.

Drove past him in his Mercedes Base. So he got

close to this man and he asked him, why are

you The man said, I'm begging for money.

Do you have anything to give me?

And the man realized, I know you see it is

not good enough to give him just money.

Let me give him something else.

So the man drove away, went to buy bread scoop

the middle of the break and put in the bread

a little bar of gold. A little brought it to

this poor man who was begging by the wayside, and

gave it to me and said, take it.

And it is I'll come back tomorrow. The guy took

the bread, he didn't know that was good in it,

put it by inside contin baking can't pegging cant pegging.

So, I mean he wanted money, but I didn't know

that he has been giving something so precious than the money.

He needed something that could give him money and give

him properties.

He didn't know. So while he was.

Begging, another man came by and he decided to sell

their bread. So he told this man about have some

bread that I didn't want to buy it, and give

me some five cities. He said, yes, yes, yes, yes.

They gave him five city and then he gave their

breath to the money. The man went fromping the bread

and realized that there was bar of cold in the bread.

The following day, this rich man came back again and

saw that this one man is still sitting by the wayside.

What was he to do?

Begging for money?

Begging?

Then this rich man was the former, did you eat

the bread I gave you yesterday? He said, oh, I

had it. It's not a better bread. Are you sure

you at the bread that my drinking?

It was very nice, It was nice. The demand said no, no, no,

if you're at the bread, you're not come here today.

You didn't eat the bread, you know what, I'll give

you another bread. So he went to buy another bread

and this time round, puts in the bread a little

bigger than the firs God today, and brought.

It to this poor again. This foreman didn't eat the bread.

He put the bread. They didn't know what was in

the breadth.

But the guy who came to buy the bread the

previous day came. They said, be awesome bread today, and

he gave the breath to you, and he gave me

five and he left the cat in this Richmond came

again and said, ah, Tamine.

Are you sure I at the bread? This all this

time around, I felt that they was sitting horney in

the bread. Mm hmm, I had it. It was nice.

And the reason said no, no, no, no, no no,

no no no no, you are not eating the bread.

If you act all eating.

The bread, you'll not be here. You will not be here.

And you see, the poor man didn't understand why this

Richmond was telling you'll not be here. I did so

if I was the poor man, the next time the

bread is put, our curiosity kills the cat. I'll just

open it and just see what it is and try

and eat half of it or something. So I was like, Okay,

I don't worry. I'll get to another bread so he

went bought bread, and this time I'm put in the

bread the biggest bar of gold and brought it to him.

When he brought it to him, as usual, the man

didn't the bread. Then this guy came back again. He said, charmer,

do you ask on bread today?

Some bread?

And he gave the bread to him this time around.

Because the guy knew what he was getting. He gave

him twenty cities and they left.

You.

You see, I said, ah, why oh, but this is

how we behave, This is how we behave.

The rest one cam man, he said, you didn't eat

the bread.

Let me tell you. The first time I brought you

the bread, I put in the bread and the power

of gold. The second time I put in it cold.

The third time I put in it cold. By it

was too late.

It was too late. It was too late. It was

too late.

What are we talking about here? Or BDS to God,

PDS to a lot of times we come to Churche.

We hear the word of God, but unfortnately for us.

We are not able to obey the word of God.

We here, Oh Father, help us to be doers of

the ware. They're not hearings of the.

Web yet to hear the word go back home and

do the opposite of the web.

Like this poor man.

We don't eat the break, but yet we behave as

if we're eating the bread. Some of us will look

at your fence. You look, I get Christian, yet you are.

Not a Christian. It's amazing how times you look at

people and you see them as Christians, but in real

life they're no Christians.

Were what we're supposed to follow, we are not following it.

John fourteen fifteen, John chapter fourteen, verse fifteen. John chapter fourteen,

verse fifteen. Look at what John forteen fifteen. Sis, look

at it. If you love me, keep my commandment is

the English version. If he will tell you that you

if you love me, you obey you.

Baby. It's very difficult for us. It will be a god.

But let me tell you something. Obedience and you can

write it down. Obinions is the greatst sacrifice which yields

good results or positive results and rewards. Obedience is a

great sacrifice or the great sacrifice which yields positive results

and rewards. Life is all about obedience. Everything in life

is all about obedience. God is talking every day. Let

me ask you, ah, God, I'm talking to you that. Look,

you have to a Sapardi role. You have to take

up maybe a role in the department. You have to

take up another role. You have to give the pastor this,

you have to do that, do this to somebody, give somebody.

This, and you are see you're not able to do

it because it's not an easy thing. Write this down.

In obedience, you do things not in your convenience.

In your obedience or in obedience, you would do things

not inconvenience.

So is it obeying? Mirror Webster defies obedience to be.

Submitted and that another person's authority or complying with laws

or regulations.

That's what she says.

Obedience is submitting to somebody's authority or complying to loss. Look,

you will never be convenient when you want to obey people,

when you want to obey God.

God will not give you an instruction which is easy.

It to always inconvenience you two always too, always inconvenient.

Whether I like you or not, it to inconvenience you.

It's inconvenient.

A lot of times, I.

Mean some of us say, there you are, we're talking

a lot. Mammy will tell you to go and do something.

Mammy Andy, I can't do this thing. Why it's so

difficult for me? And do you think Mammy will give

you something which is easy to do. Mommy wants you

to becoming Mammy tomorrow. And for you to becoming Mommy tomorrow,

you need to do what Mammy did to become amy.

You need to take up your assignment she took up.

So when Mammy gives you an assignment, you don't sit

down and say, hi, Mommy, I do I don't know

this and you're this.

That was what you were doing today. We are not

doing this thing.

Yeah, obedience, obedience to God. Obedience to God. Write this

statement down. I'm just going first because we need to

Hira A Pews write this thing down. Partial obedience.

Or delayed obedience, it's disobedience, obeying something partially and partially.

It's not obedience.

Delay Your obedience to an authority is also not obedience.

It's disobedient. This disobedience. So Mammy tells you that, he

tells you, go and watch your car.

I'm coming. Then, don't go and wash it. Mammy tells

you go and watch your car.

Ll that.

He tells who watch your car? At seven?

You don't watch the car at seven because you were

watching maybe some some series. You don't watch your cat

at seven. You decide to watch your car at night.

Even though you have washed your car, you are still

not obeyed.

And a lot of times that is we are Christians.

We fall shots.

We feel that we are doing things for God, but

in actual sense we are disobeying God. First, I watch

after fifteen, and I'm sure this will be my last

great child, and then I'll close. First, I watch after fifteen.

We gonna start from this one first, and watch after fifteen.

From this one, I want to give you an example

of someone who bashially obeyed God. And you hear what

someone told the person, profess someone to the person. Then

the philistines to.

The ark of God.

Yes, someone said to Saul, the Lord sent me to

un knowing to kid over his people over Israel. Now,

therefore heid to his voice. In other words, obey the

voice of Gods to work with me quickly. Best two

that says a lot of us. I will punish Ama Leak.

For what he did to Israel.

No God sends salt in Saul to go to the

Amalakites and go and destroy everything. Where read that scripture,

God commanded them to go and destroy everything, destroy their husbands,

their wives, their livestock, everything. They shouldn't take anything with them.

They shouldn't take anything. They should destroy everything. Now Saul

went to the battle. They killed what they can't kill,

and saw who had received.

An instruction from God.

Took the best of the ship, the best of the round,

and add that to rate the king of the Amlakis,

and brought them to Israel.

Brought them Why did he bring them?

He brought them to Tom to use them as every

day that I have killed everybody to a pointer, if

even catched the king.

And this is the king, this is the king.

But this is when you go to verse twenty of

the same chapter. Go there, go the verse twenty of

the same chapter. First somewhere fifteen twenty to go to

the twenty. And saw said to someone, but I forbeard

the voice of God. But I have obeyed the voice

of the Lord and gone on the mission on which

the Lord sent me, and brought back a god king

of Amlek.

I have utally destroyed the amelek Rites continue of a

suity one.

But the people took off the plunder ship and oxen

and the best of the things which should have been

utterally destroyed to sacrifice.

To the Lord.

The Lord said destroy them, don't bring any of them,

and said, it's a sacrifice to God.

And look at what he said. So someone said, has the.

Lord has great delight in birds, offers and sacrifices, as

in obeying the voice of God. God, just don't delight

in sacrifices. God delights in your obedience to him. Then

he said, behold, to obey is better than words. To

obey is what.

Could it be?

Or could it be that some of us here we

are sacrificing, yet we are not obeying. And it's possible

you can be in proto kore or it can be

a shepherd mean while God is not calling to be

a shepherd.

And you'll be a shepherd all your life, and at

the end.

Of the day you'll go to heaven and God will

tell I didn't call you as a shepherd.

I called you rather to be in to be part

of sound. Hello, and the church is quiet.

One of the things I always prave to God for

that God help me make the right decisions every day, because.

Even though God has called me a bastard.

It could be that today I was just supposed to

go to pree to one passage somewhere. But I'm standing

here preaching to multitude.

Is it looking nice? It's nice.

I'm not fulfilling the work of God, yes, but is

that what God wants me to do today? That is

why I said, Christian, one of the things you cannot

fail to do, you cannot fail to know the voice

of God.

So when you're a Christian, your desire every day should

be good. I want to know your voice for God

to speak to you so that you know, for it's

not an easy thing to do. It takes time. In

the presence of God.

Someone will say me, I don't want to be part

of protocol. I want to be part of the choir

because the way they dress their.

Uniform is nice.

So I want to so so and come and stand

there and showcuss my address, siven the cards talking to

you to be a protocol.

In protocol they have sided to be once in the choir.

And that is where we are today.

Unfordately, to the everybody wants to have a church, a

mega church, one million pposited, two thousand people, city, five

thousand posited, and we keep saying that he has God

is saving everybody. So your check must be big. It's

good that your checkmates today. But let me tell you something.

Success is not coincident. In the writing, success is not coincident.

Success is an intense nowhee, success, it's not a coincident.

Success is not It doesn't happen by chance. Success is

by following structures and system intentionally following and obeying. There

are so many principles in the Bible. I don't need

to mention that because it's almost time, so many principles.

I pray that next week and will take this again

and will have some time to enter into.

It very well. Yeah, success is no quincident. It is

an intentional thing. Intentionality is important when you want to

be successful. You need to obey in structions.

To be instructions, you need to obey.

A brom. We all know of.

My brom received an instation from God, go and kill

your son Isaac. How many of us I can lift

up my hands and say me, I can't go and

kill my son God, German?

Can you kill your son somebody that you you cry

for for years until you are ninety that the baby came.

You're going to kill that baby? You said?

I told you something in obedience. She will not do

things in your own convenience. It will surely inconvenience.

You kill the baby. Kill the baby, kill the baby.

Went to kill the baby to.

Isaac, and understand, Isaac was not a baby like you

know Isaac's baby.

Isaac was not the baby.

Isaac was the one who carried the firewood that was

meant to use as the band of free And when

you even killing go to your home, you don't use

two sticks of fire, would use bunch, use the whole

bunch fireut So to to burn a human being, you

need a lot, and Isaac carried it. Can't ave you,

old boy carry such a look of food. So Isaac goes,

not a small boy, so looking at somebody like this

that you are fed invested in, ta take care of

and lead him to the slaughter to put the knife

in his truth. Do you think it's an easy thing.

It's not easy yet, Isaac went, Sarah was going.

To kill it.

I love me tell you something, anytime the Lord gives

you an instruction, it is because the Lord knows that

you can't do it.

Write it down.

Any time God gives you an instruction, it is because

the Lord knows that.

You can't do it.

You can't do it. And that's one o my two.

Anytime God gives an instruction, know that he has made

a provision for it.

So even though God knew that Abram can kill his

own son Isaac.

God still made the provision and gave him Around Genesis

chapter twe it obedios is important in life. You were created,

that you were made by a God, by the Supreme God.

You cannot live your life anyway. Every life has an instruction,

a manual. When you went to buy your phone, the iPhone,

you need to.

See a manual in the box.

Some of you are leading buy the one you went

to buy something by the wayside, you went to swap.

You went to swap by. When you buy.

Correct purchasing with box and everything, there's always a manual

in the box. An electronic car you had to buy,

there is a manual even in recent times. Perfume, when

you buy an original perfume, some of them have some

manual in it. I went to a perfume shop and

I was going to check perfuse. I saw this perfume.

When I opened the box, there was a manual in

it how to use the perform my perform there s

a history. Yeah, we just ram but there's a manual

in it. Keep it away from fire? Do this when

I say, hey, don't keep it dime from fire. And

if I spray myself then I have to always be

away from fire, and then I have to But.

That is it.

That is.

You have to follow the distraction. To get the maximum

use of the products you have brought, you need to

compay the distraction. How come for us we are unable

to obey the manual that God has given us to

run our life.

Even a car has manual. The car I drive on

die there's a very fat manual in the car, very

fat manual like A tells me.

It looks old when I've been six twenty two three model.

But there's a manual attached to the car. Very just

in my it's in my shelf, my busshelf is there

man noir will die. And when the opening it tells

you what this is, what that is? When you see

this is what it means. Because we are not even

reading that the nor man, man, nor God has given

us the Bible. We we don't know what our life

should look like. And we are following at that things

following this, going here, following it. Look, success is not

in the abandance of wealth. Hello, success is not in

the abandance of what. Success can only be defined by God.

And what is success.

Success is obeyed and following the purpose of God before

your life.

That is success.

Having money, yes, it's an indication that you're successful, but

it is no success.

You can have money, but every day you'll be going

to the hospital.

I don't know a lot of money in my account,

but what does God also bless me with health. I

don't go to the hospital to spend money. I don't

waste money on so many things, things that will come

to me as ad costs. I don't see those things.

But somebody they may have the money, but every day

they are worried, because why every day somebody's at the hospitals.

They are child is suffering from Holy not they are.

This is suffering from that. This is suffering and that

is what is happening. So success, it is not in

the abandance of the things you have. But success is

in the fulfillment of the purpose of God for your life.

In other ways, success is obedience to cause well, This

obedience to couse with people of God. We need to

be very very very obedient to God, to be media

to God. It's not how we work, how we look

our main aid should people pay God?

Obeying God?

Obeying God is simple. Say just seven, start at seven.

Almost ninety of us came after seven o'clock. Sam iveyn,

I'm coming nine, and you tell me you came for

fair service, and then you close at ninth thirty?

Did you come to church? Can we ask them a question?

Did they actually come to church? Just start at seven?

You have come here at eight? Daty tell me to twenty,

just one and go. Then you weren't.

Magognized that you are Christian. You have even been baptized.

You know God, you know how to coach chest. And

you're happy saying that I'm at Christian. Yet you came

to church at night. You're living at ninth, daddy, won't

Church is starting at seven?

You see? You see?

And God sits on this through and look at us

and say, look at them. They're not serious even the

time that they have set for themselves. They cannot obey

their own time.

They can't. Then what dost can they will be? What

dose can they will be?

No?

Look lift up your hunstand and say God help me.

Some people are shy, sample are feeling very bad. That

is even today you realize that child child a child

your Christianity and some weak some have covered their face.

Don't come by office. Else is to look like I'm

talking to you. Look at me, look at me.

That's it.

Yeah, serving web by night.

We are where your boyfriend calls you that we are

meeting at at six o'clock PM. You don't wait for

everyness six o'clock at five that day you are dead.

You are dead.

Having that before at five that they will be there.

And are you coming, say I'm coming, give me school

two minutes. Don't be late. The time is six o'clock.

But for church were always late. You are no leg

to go to school. Are you coming to church? And

these are some of the things.

Somebody that h.

Let God help us, Let God help us, Let God

help us. You said, we cannot go far. And next

year he said, church that is focused on building leaders

for the next generation, we cannot go far. If our

bidy is to simple things like this, it's becoming difficult.

We cannot go far. Right to your feet, Right to

your feet. Somebody said, any time I come to church, passages.

You always make me feel bad though, telling me, telling

me what I've been doing. Yes, that's what church is

all about. Church is supposed to point your wrongs to

you and let you know the right things to sow

together that we can all go to heaven.

Is I noted?

Left up your hands and begin to pray that God

help me, God help me, God help me. Left up

the voice, pray that God helped me in the name

of Jesus, and that this say at poste. Yeah, yeah,

you want to say that, Pasta, I want to really

give my life to Christ. I've had, I've had, I've had,

I've heard about Christ, but I've not really given my

life to you. And this morning I want to take

the opportunity to give my life to you. But please

come forward and let me prove with you. There is

no time. Yesterday somebody died the best. They had an

opportunity to give their life to Christ. They change, but

they didn't. They left and they died. You are Yeah,

I want to say a past I don't really have

a relationship with Christ.

Come let me prove it. You don't look at the

one standing next to you. You'll be amassed and you

be shocked now when it comes to God.

God deals with us as individuals and that's not dealt

with us as a group individual Yeah come tick. You

certainly said Lord Jesus this morning. I thank you for

the gift of Salvias. Help me to obey your work

in Jesus name.

Amen,