The Road To Freedom Pt. 5

Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don

Noble of Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today

with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, unspeakable. Amen. Well,

it is good to be with you this evening. A

couple of announcements I want to make that I have

encouraged those who live in the valley over and over

to come to my Bible study. Now beginning in September,

we are going to be actually I am going to

be teaching the Book of Romans, the entire Book of Romans.

Oh my, yes, Paul's greatest masterpiece. But you'll understand if

you come to the Bible study why the Book of

Romans is going to be so vital for you to

learn and understand because of what's coming down the road

now next Monday, which would be August the twelfth. Please

don't miss that broadcast. Please don't miss that broadcast. I

have something extremely important to share with you that actually

has to do with what is going on right now

in the world. And of course I'm going to be

sharing scripture as always, so I don't want you to

miss that broadcast. But for those of you who actually

live physically in the Ohio Valley. I'm inviting you please

come to my Bible study. I'm telling you some of you,

you who live in this area don't even go to

a Bible study. And those of you who do go

to a Bible study, I'm not sure what you learn.

But I teach the Word. And when I teach the

Book of Romans, it will be exa Jesus, we will take.

We will rip it apart, line by line, precept by precept. Amen.

So I want to encourage you to mark your calendar

for the beginning of September, and I'll be reminding you

of that. Now. I am going to actually finish the

Road to Freedom tonight, and I've subtitled it Remove Your

No Now the reason I'm I didn't finish it last

week and I really felt like the topic of obedience

is so important, It's so so important that I wanted

to complete it, which I will hope to do tonight.

Now you know how things go. I move by the spirit.

I am not I am not legalistic in the least

and so if I get to the topic and the

Lord gives me more stuff, just right off the cuff,

right out of my spirit, you know, so trust me.

I'm trying to finish this topic tonight, but who knows. Okay. Now,

last week we looked at numbers thirteen one through three

and sixteen through thirty three and chapter fourteen of the

Book of Numbers one through ten. And that story is

a story that if you're a Christian, should be extremely

familiar with. It's about the command to Moses from the

Lord to go in and take the Promised Land. Why.

Because it's a good land, the Lord said, And he

said it's the land of milk and honey, and he

was giving it to them. So Moses reiterated that story

to the leaders and told them that they must go

in and check out the land, and he gave them

specific instructions which they were to follow. Again, we're talking

about the topic of obedience. So when your leader gives

you instructions, you are to follow those instructions, amen. And

Moses gave them clear instructions what they were supposed to

do when they got there. They were to They used

the word spy, but you could use the word check

it out. They were to check out the people, were

they weak people or strong people. They were to check

out the cities. Were they fortified or were they just

like you know, little villages that would be easy to

take over. And yes, indeed they fulfilled that part of

the instruction. But where they failed, biggest failure was in

not believing God's words. So they were not obedient to

the word of the Lord. Because what did they come

back with? Ten of them, ten of the twelve came

back with a really bad report. Now, in the natural

what they were saying was accurate. Oh, the people are

like giant, Yes, they were from the lineage of Anak,

They were large people. Yes, the cities were fortified. They

were correct. But see that's the natural realm. So they

saw with their natural realm. But they refused, and this

is where it gets Harry. They refused to believe the

word of the Lord. So it really didn't matter that

the cities were fortified, that the people were giants and

they were like grasshoppers, didn't matter. God promised them the land.

All they had to do was go in and take it.

And then Caleb, one of the two he and Joshua,

who said no, let's go right now, let's go in

and possess the land that people wanted to stone them

literally stone them to death, not just throw a few

stones at them. Stoning back then was to death. They

would have killed Joshua and Caleb in whom God said

there was an excellent spirit. Think about that for a minute.

These are God's people who want to stone two righteous

men who are speaking the truth, who are incredible men,

and ended up being the only two out of all

of those men to make it into the Promised Land

because the rest died in the wilderness. So see, you

have to think about these stories when you read them.

You have to think about these are God's people. These

are people of God who want to stone, literally kill

two men. So that's what disobedience does. It allows rebellion

in and then rebellion is like witchcraft. The Bible said.

We read that last week. And for Samuel and the

other story I shared with you was the story of

Samuel the Prophet and Saul the King, and the directive

that was given to Saul by the Lord was to

kill all of the Agagites, including the king, women, children,

all the animals. But Saul didn't do that. He disobeyed.

He was while this dude was something. He actually told

the prophet that he believed that he fulfilled the mission.

When he turned around, in his own same words, said no,

always spare the king, and we spared some of the

good animals. And when the prophet asked him why, he said, oh,

the people. The people. He blamed the people. The people

said we have to do this. Saul was absolutely so

disobedient to God's directive that the prophet told him, right

then and there, your kingdom is done. The Lord has

torn it away from you. So disobedience, and you've got

to get this in your spirit, in your heart, in

your mind. You've got to get this. When you are

disobedient to the Lord, you will pay a very heavy price,

and you will bring a curse on your life. It

is the there's no way around this. You're either gonna

be obedient to what he tells you to do, or

you're gonna be disobedient. If you're obedient, you are gonna

get the blessing of a lifetime, and if you're disobedient,

you're gonna get the curse of a lifetime. It's your choice.

You have a will. What do you want to do?

You know, it's just like let's say you're in school.

You're sitting in a classroom, you're in seventh grade, and

the teacher says, open your books to page sixty four.

Now we're gonna look at these problems, these mathematical problems,

and I want you to figure out which one is

the most difficult. We're going to work on that problem.

And this is what you do. You go, I'm not

gonna do that, and you just keep your book closed.

You won't even open your book to the page that

the teacher asked you to. So you have this willful

disobedient and really what it is is rebellion, this rebellious spirit,

and it's not going to go well for you. So see,

in the natural realm, it doesn't go well for you,

and I assure you, in the spiritual realm, it never

goes well for you. Now I'm going to share another story.

This story you're probably not familiar with. Very few people

read the Book of Zachariah, but if you have your Bibles,

I'm reading out of the New King James version specifically,

and we're in Zachariah, which is in the Old Testament,

for those of you that don't know where Zachariah is

Old Testament, Old Testament Prophet. We're at chapter seven and

we're going to be looking at verses one through fourteen,

all right. Verse one, Now, in the fourth year of

King Darius, it came to pass that the word of

the Lord came to Zachariah on the fourth day of

the ninth month Chislev, when the people sent Shirazer with

Rege and Melk and his men to the House of

God to pray before the Lord. Now those names are

obviously Hebrew names. I may not have pronounced them correctly.

But two men, Shireza and Rega and Melic are sent

to the House of God to pray before the Lord.

Verse three. And they are to ask the priests who

were in the house of the Lord of host and

the prophets, sang, should I weep in the fifth month

and fast as I have done for so many years.

So they're asking a question to the priests and prophets,

should they weep and should they fast as they have

done for so many years? Verse four. Then the word

of the Lord of Hosts came to me, Zachariah, sang,

say to all the people of the land and to

the priests, when you fasted and mourned in the fifth

and seventh months during those seventy years? Did you really

fast for me? For me? See, that's the Lord saying

this through Zachariah, and he sang to them, did you

really fast for me? Me? Capitalized me the Lord? Did

you really fast for the Lord those seventy years? When

you eat and when you drink, do you not eat

and drink for yourselves? Should you not have obeyed the

words of the Lord proclaimed through the former prophets when

Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous,

and the south and the lowland were inhabited. Now, what's

he talking about there? He's talking about when he says

former prophets, who was the prophet that carried on with

the people and warned them, if you don't turn from

your wicked ways, you're going into captivity for seventy years?

And they blew him off at every time, every turn. Jeremiah.

Jeremiah is called the weeping Prophet because he wept for

these people, because they were so hardened in their hearts,

they were so rebellious, and he did everything he could

to get these people to not go into captivity, but

they refused to listen. Oh, there's that word disobedience. They

were disobedient to the word of the Lord. They did

what they wanted. Ah, So they went into captivity seventy years.

So he's saying here in verse seven, should you not

have obeyed the words of the Lord proclaimed through the

former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited, Ah, Yeah,

and prosperous, and the south and the lowland were inhabited h.

Verse eight. Then the word of the Lord came to Zachariah, saying,

Now this is the Lord speaking. Thus says the Lord

of Hosts, execute true justice, show mercy and compassion. Everyone

to his brother. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,

the orphan, the alien, or the poor. Let none of

you plan evil in his heart against his brother. But

they refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders and stopped their

ears so that they could not hear. Now, just take

a moment and imagine that picture in your mind. Can

you see people putting fingers in their ears, stomping up

their ears, and shrugging their shoulders, and just like, go away.

I am not gonna listen to what you have to say.

I am not gonna execute true justice. I'm not gonna

show mercy and compassion to anyone I am. I'm gonna

continue to oppress the widow, and the alien, and the

poor and the orphan. Can you imagine? So what a

crazy thing, right? They refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders,

and stopped their ears so they could not hear. Yes,

they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the

law and the words which the Lord of Hosts had

sent by his spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath,

Great wrath came from the Lord of Hosts. Therefore it

happened that just as he proclaimed, and they would not hear.

So they called out, and the Lord said, I would

not listen. I would not listen. But I scattered them

with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had

not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so

that no one passed through or returned, For they made

the pleasant land desolate. Man, I'm telling you it is

a bad thing. It is a bad thing to be

disobedient to the Lord. I mean, that's why you need

to remove your no when he tells you to go

make amends with your neighbor who is sent to Christian

who uh you know their dog went to the bathroom

in your yard and you didn't like it. Remove your no,

don't say don't get rebellious. I don't have to do that.

Why should I have to do that? No, Remove your no,

and say yes, yes, Lord, because you told me to

live in peace with all men, all people, and I

want to I want to bring that person to Christ.

You see, when you say no, you're going to reap

the wrath. You're going to reap the wrath. That's the

way it goes. These people simply refused. I mean, I

can just imagine in that picture in my mind, these

people just so rebellious, so disob obedient. Putting their fingers

in their ears just makes me makes me want to

smack them. Man o, man, So do you see how

disobedience is just really it's a problem. You don't want

to go there if the Lord tells you to, you know,

I mean, the word tells you honor your mother and father.

I don't care how old you are. You could be

sixty years old. The word says honor your mother and father.

If you don't honor your mother and father, then you

are being disobedient. You are not being obedient to the word,

and the Word says, if you honor your mother and father,

you will have long life. So hey, there's an easy,

really easy way to shorten your life, right, very easy.

Just dishonor them, totally dishonor your parents. Maybe you're not

gonna have long life. And then you might say, oh,

but you don't know what my parents did to me.

They abused me, they got me hooked on drugs, they

did all these bad things. Yeah, you know, sometimes we

parents are. You get a bad set of parents, But

if you're a Christian, you forgive them. You understand that

when people don't have Jesus, they can do some pretty

bad things. Right, Parents that don't have Jesus can do

some pretty bad things. But we walk in forgiveness, and

that's another part of obedience. Maybe you haven't forgiven them.

Maybe that's why you can't honor them, because you haven't

forgiven them. And forgiveness is part of being obedient, because

the Word says that we're to forgive regardless of what

has been done to us, regardless of what has been

said about us. So obedience obedience. Turn to I think

I probably will get to finish. Turn to Deuteronomy, Old

Testament and we're going to look at chapter twenty eight

to begin with, and if I have time, I'll flip

over into thirty Deuteronomy twenty eight, verse one. Now it

shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice

of the Lord's your God. Now this is Moses telling

the people of Israel, because the Lord has given him

the commandments. Now he's giving these commandments to the people.

Now it shall come to pass if you diligence, diligently

obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe

carefully all his commandments, which I command you today, that

the Lord your God, here's what's going to happen, will

set you high above all the nations of the earth.

And that was a great thing that was going to

happen to these people. And he said, and all these

blessings shall come upon you, and the blessings will overtake

you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall

you be in the country. Blessed shall be the fruit

of your body, the produce of your ground, and the

increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle, and

the offspring of your flocks. Blessed shall be your basket

and your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when you

come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you

to be defeated by your face. They shall come out

against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

The Lord will command the blessing on you in your

storehouses and an all to which you set your hand,

and he will bless you in the land which the

Lord your God is giving you. The Lord will establish

you as a holy people to himself, just as he

has sworn to you. If you keep the commandments of

the Lord your God and walk in his ways, then

all the peoples of the earth shall see that you

are called by the name of the Lord, and they

shall be afraid of you. And the Lord will grant

you plenty of goods in the fruit of your body,

in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce

of your ground. In the land of which the Lord

swore to your fathers to give you. Then the Lord

will open to you his good treasure the heavens to

give the rein to your land. In its season, and

to bless all the work of your hand. You shall

lend to many nations, but you shall not ber, and

the Lord will make you the head and not the tail.

You shall be above and only, and not beneath. If

if you heed the commandments of the Lords your God,

which I command you today, and are careful to observe them.

But it shall come to pass if you do not

obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe

carefully all his commandments and his statues which I command

you today, that all these curses will come upon you

and ever take you. Cursed you'll be in the city,

and curse you'll be in the country. Curse shall be

your basket and your kneading bull. Curse shall be the

fruit of your body, and the produce of your land,

the increase of your cattle on the offspring of your flocks.

Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed

shall you be when you go out. The Lord will

send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that

you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed,

and until you perish quickly, because the wickedness of your

doings in which you have forsaken me the Lord. The

Lord will make the plague cling to you until he

has consumed you from the land which you are going

to possess. The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever,

with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching,

and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.

And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze,

and the earth which is under you shall be iron.

The Lord will change the rein of your land to

powder and dust from the heaven. It shall come down

on you until you're destroyed. The Lord will cause you

to be defeated before your enemies, and you shall go

out one way against them, and you will flee seven

ways before them, and you shall become troublesome to all

the kingdoms of the earth. I'm running out of time.

I think you get the picture. It's very simple. It's

very simple. There is blessing in obedience. There is a

curse and disobedience. So remove your no pay attention, observe

all the commandments of this book. Be obedient to the

commandments of the Bible. When the Lord says in the

Bible to do x y and Z do x y

and Z. Do not be rebellious in your heart. Do

not disobey God, because you will bring an awful curse

in your life, and you will bring upon your life

very unpleasant things. So I hope you heed this word

and remove no from your voc vocan. I be larry

to the Lord and say yes, Lord, Yes Lord. I

will do what you say, Amen, because I want you

to receive the blessing. Amen. Well, this is don No. Well,

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