Abiding through Obedience
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🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our week on abiding in the true vine of God, today we’ll explore obedience and how it relates to abiding in God. Take a moment even now to open your heart to trust God afresh. He will always be for us, and know what is best for us in every part of life. He is so good. He is so kind. And he simply wants to walk with us.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 15:9-10, and today's worship is Your Will, Your Way by Bryan & Katie Torwalt.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue our week on abiding in the true vine of God, today we'll explore obedience |
| 0:11.2 | and how it relates to abiding in God. |
| 0:14.4 | Take a moment even now to open your heart to trust God a fresh. |
| 0:20.0 | He'll always be for us and know what's best for us in every part of life. |
| 0:25.3 | He's so good, he is so kind, and he simply wants to walk with us. |
| 0:31.2 | Welcome to the verse of team podcast. |
| 0:36.0 | Our scripture for today comes from John 15 verses 9 through 10, where Jesus says, |
| 0:52.4 | as the Father has loved me, so have I loved you, abide in my love. |
| 0:59.8 | If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love just as I have kept my Father's |
| 1:05.3 | commandments and abide in his love. |
| 1:10.5 | The concept of obedience has become shrouded with a connotation of negativity. |
| 1:17.7 | When we think of obedience, we normally infer a feeling of doing a task apart from a |
| 1:23.8 | desire or longing. |
| 1:26.2 | We associate obedience with obligation rather than fulfillment. |
| 1:31.8 | But when Jesus walked on the earth, he carried out a very different lifestyle of obedience. |
| 1:38.5 | Jesus's life demonstrates what obedience to our Heavenly Father is meant to look like. |
| 1:45.2 | obedience to God is choosing to live a lifestyle of love and devotion to our God who has loved |
| 1:51.9 | us completely. |
| 1:54.9 | Jesus says in John 15 9 through 10, as the Father has loved me, so have I loved you, abide |
| 2:03.1 | in my love. |
| 2:05.0 | If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love just as I have kept my Father's |
| 2:09.9 | commandments and abide in his love. |
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