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Obeying What We Hear
September 24, 2023 / First Baptist RussellActs 5:1-11
Hearing God’s voice has a mate – and that is .
Now Israel, you shall listen and be careful to do them, so that it may go well for you and that you may increase greatly, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. Deut. 6:3 NASB
Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.” Gen. 2:15-17 NASB
What happens when we don’t listen to what God says?
- We listen to .
Satan has many e God’s voice.
Now the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” Gen. 3:1 NASB
- We are easy .
Now the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’” The serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die! Gen. 3:1-4 NASB
Choosing not to listen is an act of .
Other voices are most often an appeal to our .
The more we listen to their voices, the less God’s voice becomes.
- We show and little on God.
The main point of sin is .
For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil.” Gen. 3:5 NASB
and are marriage partners.
It might be best to remind ourselves that God is all – knowing– so it is best to go with His .
Have you ever thought – there are things we have learned we we had never learned; experienced things we we had never experienced?
- We to the flesh.
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate. Gen. 3:6 NASB
God is interested in speaking to our .
- We make and strive to .
Now they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” He said, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” Gen. 3:8-10 NASB
Think about this:
Since God knows my , my , and my ability to , He does not say more than I can deal with.
We all need to be for our decisions.
- There are . (3:4-24)
- Others can get .
Adam and Eve’s sin went the world.
- We God’s .