“The Significance Of Obedience” • Friday Service

“The Significance Of Obedience” • Friday Service

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Obedience holds a central place in our Christian faith for several reasons, touching on the very essence of what it means to live a life aligned with the teachings and example of Jesus Christ.

Samuel 15:22: "But Samuel replied: 'Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.'"

1 Samuel 15:23: "Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king"

Genesis 22:1-18: "Some time later God testedAbraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”“Here I am,”he replied.2Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah.Sacrifice him there as a burnt offeringon a mountain I will show you.”3Early the next morningAbraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.4On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.5He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”6Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac,and he himself carried the fire and the knife.As the two of them went on together,7Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lambfor the burnt offering?”8Abraham answered, “God himself will providethe lambfor the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.9When they reached the place God had told him about,Abraham built an altarthere and arranged the woodon it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar,on top of the wood.10Then he reached out his hand and took the knifeto slay his son.11But the angel of theLordcalled out to him from heaven,“Abraham! Abraham!”“Here I am,”he replied.12“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God,because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”13Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a]caught by its horns.He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.14So Abraham calledthat place TheLordWill Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of theLordit will be provided.”15The angel of theLordcalled to Abraham from heavena second time16and said, “I swear by myself,declares theLord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,17I will surely bless youand make your descendantsas numerous as the stars in the skyand as the sand on the seashore.Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,18and through your offspring[b]all nations on earth will be blessed,[c]because you have obeyed me.”

Jonah 3:1-10: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”3Jonah obeyed the word of theLordand went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.4Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming,“Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”5The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.6When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.7This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh:“By the decree of the king and his nobles:Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.8But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone callurgently on God. Let them give uptheir evil waysand their violence.9Who knows?God may yet relentand with compassion turnfrom his fierce angerso that we will not perish.”10When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relentedand did not bring on them the destructionhe had threatened."

Luke 22:42: "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."