Obedience to the Lord - Lisa Patterson

Today we are going to study "Obedience to the Lord." In Deuteronomy 30:1 it says to obey His voice, you and your children with all your heart and soul that the Lord you God will bring you back from captivity and have compassion on you. And he will gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. He will bring you to the land your fathers possessed and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul that you might live. Also the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you and who persecute you. But obey the voice of the Lord and do all his commandments which is commanded this day. He will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. The Lord will rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced in your fathers, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statues which are written in this Book of the Law. And if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.

In Deuteronomy 28:15 it says if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe His commandments and His statues which is commanded, then all these curses will come upon you and over take you. You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. Cursed will be the fruit of your body and produce of your land, increase of your cattle and offspring of your flocks. Cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion and rebuke in all you set your hand to do until you are destroyed because od the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken the Lord.

In Matthew 21:28 is the story of 2 sons. One son obeyed the father and the other didn't. Jesus said it's easier for a corrupt tax collector and prostitutes to get into the kingdom of Heaven than for a liar. John the Baptist showed the way of life and you didn't believe but a tax collector you did and still didn't turn from your sins and believe Him. So call upon the Lord this day and repent of your sins and ask the Lord Jesus into your heart and let Him cleanse you of all unrighteousness this day. He will take you and make you whole again. He will in no wise cast you out. Let His loving kindness come into your heart and guide you so these blessings will be in you today. This is Lisa Patterson with the Good News that God Loves You and wants you to come unto Him.

Being Saved - Lisa Patterson

Today our subject is Being Saved. Matt. 16:25 says whosoever wants to save his life will lose it. And whoever wants to lose his life will save it. You must give yourself to God so he can save you and the price you pay is to lose your life in order to gain your new life in Christ Jesus. >Matt. 19:25 says it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven. In today's standards almost everyone of us in America are rich compared to when this was written. So, riches won't get you to Heaven. Let go of all your riches cause you can't take them with you.Luke 19:10 says the son of man has come to save the world. God loves the whole world so much that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever would believe on him might be saved. He sent his son to the world not to condemn the world but so that all might be saved through his grace. He loves us so much that he did that for us. Mark 16:16 says whosoever believes in his heart that Christ rose from the dead for him and is baptized will be saved. The heart here is the spiritual being(person0 will be made whole again. Act 2:21 says to call on the name of the Lord and he will in no wise cast you out. Act 16:30 says the believe in the Lord and be saved. You must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. Not halfheartedly.

Ephesians 2:8 says by grace you are saved and not works of your own, but through faith. Nothing you did or didn't do will get you saved. You must let Christ do it all for you. I Timothy 2:4 God wants everyone to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. Mark 10: 14 says that whoever doesn't enter the Kingdom of God like a little child doesn't enter it. You can only come by humbly as a child. God loved the world so much that whosoever believeth on him shall be saved.That is for each and every one of us no matter what we've done or not done. It is well with thee after you have repented and come to the Lord. There are no favorites with God. He is willing to save anyone!! He wants everyone to have the same chance. He will wash your sins away and make you whole again. No one is too great or too bad to come to the Lord. He loves us that much.John 3:17 says you must be willing to lose your life in order to save it. You are not your own anymore once you have decided to come to Christ. So give your life to Him today and let him wash your sins away and take care of all your problems and change you and make you whole again. He died on that Cross for you so you might live and yet there are people going to Hell everyday because they don't want to hear this word. So don't be one of them who won't make it to Heaven. For God is love, I Corinthians 13:1 and is says Love is kind, patient, not selfish, never fails, trusts, is not proud, doesn't boast, and is not self seeking, not easily angered and not rude. It keeps no record of wrong doing, and is always protective. Love helps us see through things too. So come to Christ today. He is the answer and will always be there and will never leave you nor forsake you.