Love-based Obedience - October 6
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🗓️ 6 October 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
God is the perfect parent. He is unlike anyone we’ve ever known, and his love is unlike anything we’ve experienced before. Imagine knowing your parent loved you perfectly, and that their intentions and motives behind giving you direction was literally perfectly loving? That’s how God is with us. His wisdom and direction is something we can trust implicitly because he can trust his heart toward us, and that truth makes obedience a joy. As we explore love-based obedience today, may your heart be open to the goodness of your loving Father.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 14:21, and today's worship is New Wine by Hillsong Worship featuring Brooke Ligertwood.
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| 0:00.0 | God is the perfect parent. He's unlike anyone we've ever known and his love is unlike anything we've experienced before. |
| 0:12.0 | Imagine knowing that your parent lives. unlike anything we've experienced before. |
| 0:13.0 | Imagine knowing that your parent loved you perfectly |
| 0:16.7 | and that their intentions and motives behind giving you direction |
| 0:20.3 | was literally perfectly loving. That's how God is with us. |
| 0:25.0 | His wisdom and direction is something that we can trust implicitly |
| 0:29.0 | because he can trust his heart toward us. |
| 0:31.0 | And that truth makes obedience a joy. As we explore |
| 0:36.3 | love-based obedience today, may your heart be open to the goodness of your |
| 0:41.0 | loving father. Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse for today can be found in John 1421 which reads |
| 0:59.9 | Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my father, |
| 1:09.1 | and I will love him and manifest myself to him. |
| 1:15.0 | For much of my life I feared the thought of obedience, |
| 1:20.0 | especially to the almighty, all-ing and all powerful creator of the universe. |
| 1:26.4 | I couldn't seem to find a way to consistently choose him over myself. |
| 1:32.0 | I couldn't seem to be able to live for his affections over those of the |
| 1:36.4 | world. As hard as I would try in various seasons, I just couldn't be obedient. |
| 1:44.7 | What I didn't realize about God's command to be obedient was the process by which I could |
| 1:49.9 | grow in obedience. God will take our obedience however he can get it because he wants us |
| 1:56.7 | to enjoy the incredible fruits of his perfect will. But his desire is always to love us to a place that our obedience would be a natural |
| 2:07.5 | overflow of our love for him. He longs for us to live a lifestyle of love-based opinion. |
| 2:18.0 | John 1415 says very simply, |
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