The True Meaning of Obedience

Changing Your World Podcast with Creflo Dollar

World Changers Church International

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The definition of what it means for us to obey God has changed from the old covenant of the law to the new covenant of grace. Before, perfectly keeping all the commandments was required in order to receive blessings and avoid being cursed; now, belief in Jesus’ perfect performance in keeping all the laws positions us to receive all of the blessings with none of the curses. Unlike in the Old Testament, our doing is now secondary in importance to God; when we first believe in the finished works of Jesus, our doing will fall in line with our faith. The law tells us to trust in our performance. However, our faith should rest not in what we do or the material possessions we can acquire, but in God’s love for us. Focusing on Jesus instead of on our self-efforts allows us to find rest in His sufficiency. Setting aside all the rules and regulations that religion says are important and simply believing in God’s love allows Him to give us the specifics of what and how to accomplish what He wants us to do.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Creflo Dollar, and this is the Creflo Dollar Ministries podcast.
0:05.0	I want to thank you for joining us today, and I sincerely hope this word encourages you,
0:10.7	builds your faith, and above all else helps you to understand grace and empowers you to change.
0:17.6	Enjoy the message. If you would this morning go with me to the book of Deuteronomy,
0:24.0	chapter 28, I'm going to do just maybe a 10 minute review and then pick up what we left off,
0:29.6	that the awesome thing about today is that, you know, my message is every Sunday
0:35.0	are sounding like Easter messages, and because it's about Jesus and what he did, and today
0:41.5	there's just so many people that are in church have no idea what this day means. We celebrate
0:48.0	the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and still don't know why. What's the significance?
0:54.6	What's the benefit? What happened as a result of it? If it had not happened, where would we have
1:01.7	be? And so this is so very important. So Deuteronomy, chapter 28, verses 1 through 13, I'm going to
1:09.4	read some of it here. He says, and it shall come to pass if thou shalt harken diligently unto the
1:14.8	voice of the Lord thy God to observe and to do all his commandments, which I command thee this day,
1:20.0	that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth, and all these blessings,
1:26.0	blessings are going to come on you and overtake you, but it's a condition to having the blessings
1:30.8	come over you and overtake you. I don't know, I don't know anybody that want to be blessed,
1:35.0	but there's a condition that has to be met. If thou shalt harken or obey unto the voice of the
1:42.4	Lord thy God, he says, that's the condition, your obedience in your actions, that's the condition.
1:48.0	You have to show obedience in your actions in order to get all of the blessings. And then he goes
1:53.0	on here in verse 3, he says, bless, shall thou be in the city and bless, shall thou be in the field,
1:58.5	bless, shall thou be the fruit of thy body, the fruit of thy ground, the fruit of thy cattle,
2:02.8	increase of thy kind, the flocks of thy sheep. He says, bless, shall thou be the basket, and you'll
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