Faith, Part 8

Faith, love, and obedience

• We see the evidence of God’s love for us (Creation, care, the sacrifice of His only Son)


• How do we show love to God?


• God tells us what it means to love Him.


• John 14:15


• In modern terms, this is God’s love language.


• There is a direct connection between faith in God, loving God, and obeying God.


• We show our faith and our love by obeying God and through this obedience, we become more like Him, and our faith grows.


• II Peter 1:10-11


• Romans 6:12-13


• I am compelled to worship in spirit and truth (John 4:23-24). I serve God from the heart and in harmony with the truth as revealed in the gospel.


• I Corinthians 9:27 – Disciplining our body is part of obedience.


• We want to please God by obeying Him and worshiping Him the way He wants us to.


• What does obedience look like?


• II Peter 1:5 – I will try to develop these qualities in my everyday life.
  
  
  
  • My activities will be more virtuous.
  
  
  • I will strive for more knowledge.
  
  
  • I will develop self-control.
  
  
  • I will learn patience.
  
  
  • Godliness will be my goal.
  
  
  • I will try to show kindness to all.
  
  
  • In all things I will show a spirit of love.
  
  
  
  


• II Peter 3:17-18


• Hebrews 11:6
  
  
  
  • Note again two elements:
    
    
    
    • Believe that He is (faith)
    
    
    • Action (seeking Him)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • God rewards those seeking Him and God does what He says.
  
  
  • The action (obeying Him) from faith (love of God) is diligently seeking Him (obeying Him and wanting to be like Him).
  
  
  
  


• If we fail, we have faith that God will forgive us.


• I Thessalonians 5:22


• Romans 3:23


• Romans 6:1-2, 12-13


• I John 1:8-9


• That should make us love Him more.