Hi, Chris Valetan here. Welcome to my podcast where I hope to inspire you to walk

in your Royal Identity in Christ and experience God's goodness in every area of your life.

I hope you enjoy this message today and if you're looking for more resources,

check out ChrisValetan.com. I want to talk today about the obedience of faith,

the obedience of faith. So let's pray. Holy Spirit, we thank you for what you're doing all over

the world and we thank you that your spirit is moving all over the world. Contrary to popular

opinion, your spirit is moving all over the world. And Lord, we pray that you would move among us

and through us today to our friends that are in the room and to all those watching by Bethel TV.

Lord, we just bless this day and Lord, we pray that your that faith for you would grow

by these words. Amen.

I want to turn to Romans chapter 1, verse 5. Romans chapter 1, verse 5. Paul wrote this,

I have received grace and an apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles

for his namesake. Let's read it one more time. We have received grace and apostleship to bring about

the obedience of faith, everybody see obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for his namesake.

I don't know when you, how you respond to verses like this, but when I think of obedience,

when I think of obedience, I think obey the laws of the land, obey the traffic laws. If I'm

living in the Old Testament, I'm thinking obey the Ten Commandments. But here Paul said that his

apostleship, the goal of his apostleship is that we would be obedient to faith. I'd like to

propose that we actually need to be obedient to faith, that we should doubt our fears and believe

in our faith, believe in our hope. And you know, we have this coronavirus that seems to be creating

an intense fear among the nations. A friend of mine from a Singapore, she was riding me the other day,

just telling me how the whole country was shut down as people feared getting the virus. And I don't

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