Exodus 24:3-8 (ESV)
Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do.” And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD. And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
If only what the people said that day would be true for those who came later. They did not obey the rules that their parents said they would. Actually, neither did these parents. Within a few chapters we will read that they did not obey. Obedience is the first step of a people of faith. It matters not if you say you believe if you have not, next, obeyed.
Note all these verses on obeying His commands. This is walking in faith:
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (ESV)
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his COMMANDMENTS, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
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1.
We’re not to diminish any of his commands:
Matthew 5:19 (ESV)
Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these COMMANDMENTS and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
2.
Keeping his commands produces life
Matthew 19:17 (ESV)
And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the COMMANDMENTS.”
3.
There is a direct relationship between our knowledge of God and our obedience to the commands of God:
1 John 2:3 (ESV)
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his COMMANDMENTS.
4.
Failure to keep his command, demonstrates our heart is full of lies:
1 John 2:4 (ESV)
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his COMMANDMENTS is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
5.
God brought a new command to love one another when Jesus came to die for us:
1 John 2:7,8 (ESV)
Beloved, I am writing you no new COMMANDMENT, but an old COMMANDMENT that you had from the beginning. The old COMMANDMENT is the word that you have heard.
At the same time, it is a new COMMANDMENT that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
2 John 1:5 (ESV)
And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new COMMANDMENT, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
John 12:50 (ESV)
And I know that his COMMANDMENT is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”
6.
By keeping his commandments, we have confidence in our prayers:
1 John 3:22 (ESV)
and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his COMMANDMENTS and do what pleases him.
7.
We are commanded to believe in Jesus Christ, and to love one another:
1 John 3:23 (ESV)
And this is his COMMANDMENT, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
8.
Our abiding in him is directly proportionate to our obedience to him:
1 John 3:24a (ESV)
Whoever keeps his COMMANDMENTS abides in God, and God in him. …
9.
Whoever keeps his commandments can be assured that the spirit of God is abiding in him:
1 John 3:24b (ESV
Whoever keeps his COMMANDMENTS abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
10.
Loving others is directly proportionate to our keeping God‘s commands:
1 John 5:2 (ESV)
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his COMMANDMENTS.
11.
Keeping Goods commands is not a burden:
1 John 5:3 (ESV)
For this is the love of God, that we keep his COMMANDMENTS. And his COMMANDMENTS are not burdensome.
12.
It is a rejoicing to see those we love, obeying God’s command:
2 John 1:4 (ESV)
I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were COMMANDED by the Father.
13.
Walking in love is defined by walking in and obeying his commands:
2 John 1:6 (ESV)
And this is love, that we walk according to his COMMANDMENTS; this is the COMMANDMENT, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
14.
Obeying God‘s commands by faith produces eternal life:
John 12:50 (ESV)
And I know that his COMMANDMENT is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”
15.
If we love, God, we will keep his commandments:
John 14:15 (ESV)
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
“If you love me, you will keep my COMMANDMENTS.
John 14:21 (ESV)
Whoever has my COMMANDMENTS and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
16.
All of God‘s commands can be summed up in loving him, and loving others:
Mark 12:28-31 (ESV)
And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which COMMANDMENT is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other COMMANDMENT greater than these.”
Romans 13:9 (ESV)
For the COMMANDMENTS, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other COMMANDMENT, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
17.
Obedience to God‘s commands are better than sacrifice:
1 Samuel 15:22 (ESV)
And Samuel said,
“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
1 Corinthians 7:19 (ESV)
For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the COMMANDMENTS of God.
18.
Our being in God‘s command brings promises fulfilled:
1 Corinthians 7:19 (ESV)
For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the COMMANDMENTS of God.
19.
Jesus came and kept all of God’s Commandments:
1 Timothy 6:13-16 (ESV)
I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to keep the COMMANDMENT unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
20.
Turning away from God‘s commands will result in disaster of life:
2 Peter 2:21 (ESV)
For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy COMMANDMENT delivered to them.
21.
The definition of enduring, for God is defined by keeping his commandments by faith:
Revelation 14:12 (ESV)
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the COMMANDMENTS of God and their faith in Jesus.
22.
We should not break God’s commands simply to keep our traditions:
Matthew 15:3 (ESV)
He answered them, “And why do you break the COMMANDMENT of God for the sake of your tradition?
Mark 7:9 (ESV)
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the COMMANDMENT of God in order to establish your tradition!
23.
Keeping God‘s commands will produce a great reputation for life:
Luke 1:5-6 (ESV)
In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the COMMANDMENTS and statutes of the Lord.
(They was John the Baptist’s parents.)
24.
God actually commands that we keep his commands:
Deuteronomy 27:10 (ESV)
You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his COMMANDMENTS and his statutes, which I command you today.”
25.
Our abiding in Him demands that we keep his commands:
John 15:10 (ESV)
If you keep my COMMANDMENTS, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s COMMANDMENTS and abide in his love.
26.
Our future blessing depends on our obedience to His commands:
Deuteronomy 4:1 (ESV)
Moses Commands Obedience
“And now, O Israel, listen to the STATUES and the RULES that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
27.
God can command the lighting to strike exactly where He wants it to strike:
Job 36:26, 32-33 (ESV)
Behold, God is great, and we know him not;
the number of his years is unsearchable.
He covers his hands with the lightning
and COMMANDS it to strike the mark.
Its crashing declares his presence;
the cattle also declare that he rises.
28.
Keeping God‘s commands puts us in a better space of life:
Deuteronomy 6:2 (ESV)
that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his COMMANDMENTS, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.
29.
Keeping God‘s commands keeps us from stumbling:
Psalms 119:165 (ESV)
Great peace have those who love your LAW;
nothing can make them stumble.
30.
Those who do not obey god‘s command are faithless:
Psalms 119:158 (ESV)
I look at the faithless with disgust,
because they do not keep your COMMANDS.
31.
God commands that we repent:
Acts 17:30 (ESV)
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he COMMANDS all people everywhere to repent,
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