“Honor and Respect God by Keeping His Commandments”
Sunday Morning February 12, 2012
scriptures: Proverbs 119, Matthew 14, John 14, Hosea 4, Luke 11, Isaiah 40
keywords: follow, respect, honor, commandments, knowledge, love
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What if Jesus came to your house and said follow me? Are you following all that God wants you to do?God created the world and has made all these things in the world that we see. God is saying, “Where is my honor and where is my respect?”. Jesus died on the cross for you- are you giving him his honor and respect? Can anything compare to what God has done for you and what he is offering? Psalms 119:1-8 By keeping his thoughts and his commandments you can show respect to God. When we don’t follow his words and his commandments, we are disrespecting God. Lady was filming in the ocean and filming the wildlife in the water at a reef near the shore. She was carried out to sea by the current and had to find a way to get back. She saw some sharks on the way back to the shore. The sharks and lions in life are looking for the weak ones to take down. We’ve got stay close to Jesus and to stay focused on him.
Matthew 14:25-30 – Jesus told Peter to come and walk on water, but when Peter took his eyes off the Lord and begin to worry then he began to sink. God told Joshua to keep his commandments and to not turn to the left or to the right. We got to stay straight on God’s commandments. We can’t began to look at other things. John 14:21 A lot of people have God’s commandments but they don’t keep them.
Hosea 4:6-9 God doesn’t grade on a curve. It is because of the lack of knowledge that people are in trouble. God is not going to put up with you not doing what you are supposed to do. We all have a responsibility to do what God said in his commandments. If God said love thy enemies but you can’t love those that are close to you then how can you think that you are going to be o.k. with God? God takes it personally how we treat one another. Think about all that God went through to save us and he remained faithful. You think about all the scriptures that God talks about love but he really wants us to show that love to other people.
Luke 11:27-28 A lot think that Mary is important as Jesus’ mom but God said that keeping the word is more important. In honoring and respecting God do we keep his commandments? Isaiah 40:28-31 God giveth strength to do all things and we can have power to do the things for God by keeping his commandments.