Trusting God's Word: The Path to His Power
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Satan doesn't care if you do those things as long as you don't practice what you're reading and learning. He's fine with all of that as long as you don't put it into practice. Here's what James goes on to say, Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and after looking at himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like." [47:34]
2. "The only way darkness wins is when light leads. That's the only way darkness wins, is when light pulls out of the darkness. The only way darkness can have victory is for us not to shine the light of Jesus into the world. So it's been that way from the beginning, right? But God's Word precedes the demonstration of God's Word. God's power." [40:44]
3. "When we're walking down the path God wants us to walk down, it doesn't mean things will never be hard. It doesn't mean we'll never have mountains to climb or rivers to cross or valleys to get through that are dark. It doesn't mean that. But it means he will be able to give us joy because we're dwelling in his presence when we're being obedient to the path he's called us to." [59:41]
4. "Friends, one of the greatest testimonies Christians can have in the world today is when non-Christians can see us. They can see us have a joy deep within and a peace in our hearts and minds that is beyond their understanding of where it could come from. Where do you find that? It's found in obedience to God. That's where it's found. You can't generate that. You can't create that any other way." [59:41]
### Quotes for Members
1. "You can only have the blessings of the Word of God in obedience to the Word of God. Those two are connected. But we have a whole culture. We have a culture of Christians in America today that want the blessings of God without the obedience to God. We want God to bless our relationships. We want God to bless our careers. We want God to bless our finances. We want God to bless everything about our lives, our families, without being obedient to what God is telling us to do in those areas of our lives. Those two things never go together." [49:52]
2. "God's Word almost always precedes God's power. In other words, what the Lord does is He gives His Word before He reveals His power. Now there's a reason it's in that order. It's so that we can learn to trust His Word. So that we can learn that if God says it, what's going to happen? It's going to happen. He's going to do it. He's wanting Moses to learn to make that connection because Moses has got a long process he's going through here when he gets back to Egypt. It's going to take a long time. It's going to take a lot of obedience. It's going to take a lot of trusting God through all that God's going to do there." [37:36]
3. "The power of God is flowing through the channel of Moses' obedience. He said, throw the staff down. What if Moses hadn't thrown the staff down? He would have never seen the power of God turn it into a snake. And what if he had said, reach down and touch the snake? And Moses said, I'm not touching that thing. Right? That would have been my first inclination. But when he did it, what happened? He saw God's power. Right? It's in the obedience that you see the power of God at work." [45:02]
4. "Our obedience needs to be rooted in faith. The power of God is flowing through the channel of Moses' obedience, which is rooted in faith that God is, as we saw last week, he is the I am who I am God. I be who I be God. Right? He is God, the only God. And if you believe he is the God that he's saying that he is, then it's easier to put your faith in him to be obedient. Obedient to what he's telling you to do. See all of it's tied together. Your faith in God is what will produce a greater response of obedience, and it will become more and more obedient in your obedience when you have your faith where it needs to be." [51:27]
5. "Do not conform to the pattern of this world. In other words, don't follow the world's plan for life. Be transformed by the renewing of your what? How does our mind get renewed? We're thinking one way. How do we change that? We're thinking like the world thinks. How do we change that? We learn what God says about it. Where do we find that? In the Word. All right, it goes back to the Word, doesn't it? Our minds are transformed by learning what God's Word says about those things. And then we start thinking differently about those things." [01:03:28]
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1. "Satan doesn't care if you do those things as long as you don't practice what you're reading and learning. He's fine with all of that as long as you don't put it into practice. Here's what James goes on to say, Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and after looking at himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like." [47:34]
2. "The only way darkness wins is when light leads. That's the only way darkness wins, is when light pulls out of the darkness. The only way darkness can have victory is for us not to shine the light of Jesus into the world. So it's been that way from the beginning, right? But God's Word precedes the demonstration of God's Word. God's power." [40:44]
3. "When we're walking down the path God wants us to walk down, it doesn't mean things will never be hard. It doesn't mean we'll never have mountains to climb or rivers to cross or valleys to get through that are dark. It doesn't mean that. But it means he will be able to give us joy because we're dwelling in his presence when we're being obedient to the path he's called us to." [59:41]
4. "Friends, one of the greatest testimonies Christians can have in the world today is when non-Christians can see us. They can see us have a joy deep within and a peace in our hearts and minds that is beyond their understanding of where it could come from. Where do you find that? It's found in obedience to God. That's where it's found. You can't generate that. You can't create that any other way." [59:41]
### Quotes for Members
1. "You can only have the blessings of the Word of God in obedience to the Word of God. Those two are connected. But we have a whole culture. We have a culture of Christians in America today that want the blessings of God without the obedience to God. We want God to bless our relationships. We want God to bless our careers. We want God to bless our finances. We want God to bless everything about our lives, our families, without being obedient to what God is telling us to do in those areas of our lives. Those two things never go together." [49:52]
2. "God's Word almost always precedes God's power. In other words, what the Lord does is He gives His Word before He reveals His power. Now there's a reason it's in that order. It's so that we can learn to trust His Word. So that we can learn that if God says it, what's going to happen? It's going to happen. He's going to do it. He's wanting Moses to learn to make that connection because Moses has got a long process he's going through here when he gets back to Egypt. It's going to take a long time. It's going to take a lot of obedience. It's going to take a lot of trusting God through all that God's going to do there." [37:36]
3. "The power of God is flowing through the channel of Moses' obedience. He said, throw the staff down. What if Moses hadn't thrown the staff down? He would have never seen the power of God turn it into a snake. And what if he had said, reach down and touch the snake? And Moses said, I'm not touching that thing. Right? That would have been my first inclination. But when he did it, what happened? He saw God's power. Right? It's in the obedience that you see the power of God at work." [45:02]
4. "Our obedience needs to be rooted in faith. The power of God is flowing through the channel of Moses' obedience, which is rooted in faith that God is, as we saw last week, he is the I am who I am God. I be who I be God. Right? He is God, the only God. And if you believe he is the God that he's saying that he is, then it's easier to put your faith in him to be obedient. Obedient to what he's telling you to do. See all of it's tied together. Your faith in God is what will produce a greater response of obedience, and it will become more and more obedient in your obedience when you have your faith where it needs to be." [51:27]
5. "Do not conform to the pattern of this world. In other words, don't follow the world's plan for life. Be transformed by the renewing of your what? How does our mind get renewed? We're thinking one way. How do we change that? We're thinking like the world thinks. How do we change that? We learn what God says about it. Where do we find that? In the Word. All right, it goes back to the Word, doesn't it? Our minds are transformed by learning what God's Word says about those things. And then we start thinking differently about those things." [01:03:28]
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