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Walking in obedience

Walking in obedience. EPHESIANS 5:8 -17. Ephesians 5:8 -17.

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Walking in obedience

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  1. Walking in obedience EPHESIANS 5:8-17

  2. Ephesians 5:8-17 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the…

  3. Ephesians 5:8-17 …unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest light. …

  4. Ephesians 5:8-17 …14 Therefore He says: Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.” 15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  5. Romans 10:9-10 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

  6. Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

  7. WALKING IN OBEDIENCE There is a battle between the flesh and the spirit

  8. Romans 7:15-25 (ESV) 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good…

  9. Romans 7:15-25 (ESV) …dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want…

  10. Romans 7:15-25 (ESV) I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 21So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law…

  11. Romans 7:15-25 (ESV) of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind I…

  12. Romans 7:15-25 (ESV) myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

  13. Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

  14. WALKING IN OBEDIENCE There is a battle between the flesh and the spirit We are called to walk in The Spirit

  15. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Galatians 5:25

  16. Galatians 5:16 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Galatians 5:25

  17. 1 John 2:15-17 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world— the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and…

  18. 1 John 2:15-17 …the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

  19. WALKING IN OBEDIENCE There is a battle between the flesh and the spirit We are called to walk in The Spirit To walk in The Spirit we need to walk in obedience

  20. Ephesians 2:8-10 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

  21. 1 John 3:24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

  22. Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

  23. John 14:21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

  24. WALKING IN OBEDIENCE 4) What are we meant to walk in obedience to?

  25. WALKING IN OBEDIENCE 4) What are we meant to walk in obedience to? a) Obedience to His Word

  26. Psalms 119:10-11 With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You

  27. Faith in the Word produces obedience, which intern produces the power. Galatians 3:5

  28. Hosea 4:6 Faith in the Word produces obedience, which intern produces the power. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge Galatians 3:5

  29. WALKING IN OBEDIENCE 4) What are we meant to walk inobedience to? a) Obedience to His Word b) Obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit

  30. John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

  31. John 16:8 And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment

  32. WALKING IN OBEDIENCE 5) Obedience produces fruit

  33. Genesis 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

  34. Psalms 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments.His praise endures forever

  35. Luke 11:28 But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it”.

  36. Psalms 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

  37. Romans 15:4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

  38. James 1:21-25 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. …

  39. James 1:21-25 … 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25But …

  40. James 1:21-25 … he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

  41. WALKING IN OBEDIENCE 5) Obedience produces fruit 6) We have been captivated by a loving & faithful God

  42. It’s the goodness of God [that] leads you to repentance Romans 2:4 (b)

  43. Matthew 6:33 It’s the goodness of God [that] leads you to repentance But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Romans 2:4 (b)

  44. Acts 16:25-34 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and…

  45. Acts 16:25-34 …everyone's chains were loosed. 27 And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. 28 But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself…

  46. Acts 16:25-34 …no harm, for we are all here.” 29 Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 31So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and…

  47. Acts 16:25-34 …you will be saved, you and your household.” 32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized. …

  48. Acts 16:25-34 34 Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household

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