Obedience Confirms Our Relationship1 Samuel 14:24 – 15:35

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•Obedience confirms that we fear God more than we fear man.

•Obedience confirms that we fear God more than we fear man.•Obedience confirms that we find more pleasure in God than in things of this world.

•Obedience confirms that we fear God more than we fear man.•Obedience confirms that we find more pleasure in God than in things of this world.•Obedience confirms that we are more interested in bringing glory to God’s name than in getting a name for ourselves.

•Obedience confirms that we fear God more than we fear man.•Obedience confirms that we find more pleasure in God than in things of this world.•Obedience confirms that we are more interested in bringing glory to God’s name than in getting a name for ourselves.•Obedience confirms that God’s word and will takes priority over my will and ways.

•Obedience confirms that we fear God more than we fear man.•Obedience confirms that we find more pleasure in God than in things of this world.•Obedience confirms that we are more interested in bringing glory to God’s name than in getting a name for ourselves.•Obedience confirms that God’s word and will takes priority over my will and ways.•Obedience confirms that we worship and serve God rather than bowing to the idols of our own making.

Disobedience:•Fears man•Elevates the pleasure of things•Always seeks to build a name for self•Seeks guidance apart from God•Values the desire of self more than a desire for God

•There is a vital connection that exists between having a relationship with Christ and obeying His commands.

•There is a vital connection that exists between having a relationship with Christ and obeying His commands.

•Knowing God necessarily produces obedience

•There is a vital connection that exists between having a relationship with Christ and obeying His commands.

•Knowing God necessarily produces obedience

•There cannot be a knowledge of God where there is persistence in sin

The knowledge John has in view is an experience of Christ and God the Father in which they are taken into the depths of our life and change the way we live and move and have our being.