The Response to the Resurrection - Pastor Greg Jones

Well, Imma tell you something. God's not going meet your honey or your rebellion but the blessings aren't going to come. The goodness of god is not going to flow When we are obedient to god, I I I went through scripture. I put it in I put it in my my iPad on in the in the Bible app and and I put this in there interesting me and and this is this is what what being obedient does. Obedient brings strength. It brings strength. Obedience brings revelation. We were talking about that in Sunday school. Obedience brings god's glory into our lives. Obedience brings answered prayer. [00:29:12] (52 seconds)  #ObedienceBringsBlessings

Hallelujah. The first thing I find in scripture that we have to respond in. We have to respond in faith. Yeah. Amen. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. We respond in in faith. We respond and y'all ready for this? Active faith. Not just saying it but doing something about it. You know, we we we one of the ways we that we activate our faith is in obedience to the word. We obey. We'll get on that more here in a little bit but but we obey. [00:11:45] (49 seconds)  #FaithInAction

Love is a choice Every time I do marriage counseling, I talk about this. There are days that my wife don't like me very well But she chooses to love me. In spite of my whatever. Right? Vice versa. Amen. It's a choice and when people stop choosing to love, that's when they start having problem. Amen. We choose to love both god and people. He added something at the end of that first commandment. It wasn't just love the lord thy god and love thy neighbor as thyself. [00:36:13] (64 seconds)  #LoveIsAChoice

There's something, I got proof because of Peter He allowed Peter to come back to him. He would've allowed Judas All Judas had to do was repent y'all. One, I know I've been doing this. It's been on my mind ever since last week but one, he was one prayer away. From being right with god. One prayer. Now, I came to tell somebody, I feel this. I know I said it last week but I feel this again. Amen. You're just one prayer. Just one Amen. And thankfully, Peter responded in a proper way to the resurrection. [00:40:09] (54 seconds)  #OnePrayerAway

And and and I'm just telling you something that when we begin to worship and praise god in spirit and in truth. I'm not talking about just messing around and and playing with god. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about like what was happening during worship. That spirit and truth where we we don't care what people think. We're just loving god. We don't care what our neighbor looks like or acts like. We're just loving god right now. Come on somebody. Yeah. Amen. When we do, his presence will always show up. [00:34:15] (32 seconds)  #WorshipInSpiritAndTruth

Obedience is more than just hearing. It's all about me and maverick. We could get yelled at all day long and hear that and not do it. I've used this example so many times. My mom would say, Gregory Dale, take out the trash. Okay. I just keep reading my Louie Lemoore. Gregory Dale, take out the trash. Okay. Keep on reading my Louie Lemoore. Good fight going on. I can sit here and talk about it. I I can talk about how in in the middle of this gunfight, he hears the fly buzz past. I I could I could talk about how in the middle of this gunfight, he's he hears a down the street, there's somebody pumping water and that pump's creaking. I could talk about all this, man. A good fight. Come on now. [00:27:29] (59 seconds)  #ObeyDontJustHear

God loves for his children to be obedient to his word. Amen. There's something about it. You know, Bible talks about sacrifice a lot and then Samuel tells Saul obedience is better than sacrifice. But all through scripture, you find, matter of fact, it it's it's all through it. Where where it talks about how the lord accepted and the lord loved their sacrifice. But man, he loves our obedience even more. I I know we live in a world of rebellion. We do. We live in a world of rebellion and rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. God hates it with a passion. [00:25:47] (46 seconds)  #ObedienceOverSacrifice

The third thing we gotta respond in is in love. Amen. In love. The very first commandment. Hear, oh Israel, the lord thy god is one lord, not two, not three, not ten, one, and thou shalt love. See, lots of times we leave this part off. Can't leave this off. And thou shalt love the lord thy god, all thy heart, soul, and mind. Jesus added strength when he quoted the verse. We wanna love him with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. [00:35:09] (42 seconds)  #LoveGodWithAll

But she chooses to love me. In spite of my whatever. Right? Vice versa. Amen. It's a choice and when people stop choosing to love, that's when they start having problem. Amen. We choose to love both god and people. He added something at the end of that first commandment. It wasn't just love the lord thy god and love thy neighbor as thyself. Kind of an interesting addition to loving god Jesus took it a step further. He said, you are to love your enemies [00:36:26] (69 seconds)