Message 7 - Obedience

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This is Message Seven in a Series of Messages that God Gave to me Beginning in July 2025

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Obedience

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Romans 8:26-28

Living Bible

{Paraphrased}

²⁶ And in like manner—by our faith—the Holy Spirit helps us with our daily problems and in our praying. For we don’t even know what we should pray for nor how to pray as we should, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with such feeling that it cannot be expressed in words.

²⁷ And the {Christ} who knows all hearts {Rev. 2:23} knows, of course, what the Spirit is saying as he pleads for us in harmony with God’s own will.

²⁸ And we know that all that happens to us is working for our good if we love God and are fitting into his plans.

With this message I want to show you why obeying God is important. When you do, everything works together for your good. That's what you want. When you don't, bad things happen because of karma, or the reaping years of disobedience (Gal. 6:7, 8). That's what you don't want.

I want to show you with this post that you don't want to play with God and trespass His commands. Bad things happen and your growth goes backwards. You regress instead of make progress in your spiritual life and fellowship with the Holy Spirit. You're stuck in a sin in the flesh. What you want, is to grow out of your flesh and that comes by listening to God.

I want to remind you that we listen to God because we love Him. When we feel the temptation to sin, it's a choice that we will answer to God for, whether, obeying God or disobeying God. You don't have to give in to your wicked desires against God.

John 14:15, 21, 23, 24

New King James Version

{Paraphrased}

¹⁵ “If you love Me, {you will} keep My commandments.

²¹ He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and {reveal} Myself to him."

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

²⁴ He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

Progressive Sanctification

We love God, right? Then why do we sin?

1. Because sin is inside our bodies (the bond of iniquity, Acts 8:23/ Rom. 7)

2. and we need to sanctify (Jn. 17:17/ Rom. 6:6, 7/ Ps. 119:11)

3. and mortify it (Rom. 8:13/ Col. 3:5) instead of indulge in it, with our love for God.

   
   

   
   

Example of disobedience: adultery.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-9

New Life Version

Paul Tells Them to Live Holy Lives

1 Christian brothers, we ask you, because of the Lord Jesus, to keep on living in a way that will please God. I have already told you how to grow in the Christian life.

² The Lord Jesus gave us the right and the power to tell you what to do.

³ God wants you to be holy. You must keep away from sex sins.

⁴ God wants each of you to use his body in the right way by keeping it holy and by respecting it.

⁵ You should not use it to please your own desires like the people who do not know God.

⁶ No man should do wrong to his Christian brother in anything. The Lord will punish a person who does. I have told you this before.

⁷ For God has not called us to live in sin. He has called us to live a holy life.

⁸ The one who turns away from this teaching does not turn away from man, but from God. It is God Who has given us His Holy Spirit.

⁹ You do not need anyone to write to you about loving your Christian brothers. God has taught you to love each other.

There is a Christian woman I wanted to marry in 2023 when I got married. I still wanted her after I got married. But the Lord told me to leave them alone regardless of my feelings because they got married, and so did I. So, I did.

I'm happily married, however, two years later, I was thinking about her today when I was alone and driving. God said that there is a chance to marry her now, but I said no because she's still married and so am I. This is about obedience to God.

So, God said to me while I was driving today, "You can have her. But if you do, she will die". And I remembered reading stories of new Christian marriages based on the death of their spouses.

In one story, a man got saved in prison and he asked the Lord for a wife when he got out. Three months after his release, he saw a beautiful woman crying on her porch. He had to help. Her husband was beating her in jealousy. Two weeks later her husband died in a car accident, and they were married soon after that.

The Lord killed that abusive husband because he was cheating on her. She remained faithful to God and did not cheat on him. He was beating her in guilt over committing adultery on her. This is what happens to people who go back to sin. Guilt creates hostility and the guilty party starts to abuse the innocent party because of guilt and hostility. They try to kill their spouse to get rid of the pain they feel around them. The problem is them. They accuse to excuse. They accuse you of their sins in guilt and hostility. But they kill you to excuse their guilt. The Bible calls it a "seared conscience" (1 Tim. 4:1-3). I'm not going to play the fool with this woman. I'm not going to play with the Lord.

The Bible says that only death ends marriage (Rom. 7:2, 3/ 1 Cor. 7:39), and God is the one who kills the unfaithful spouse to get the victim married to better people who will love them, not hurt them with adultery.

God told me at that time that I learned this about God, that God kills unfaithful Christians to end the marriages that He made to make His abused child happy with a better love from a faithful person, that God doesn't want us to hurt our spouses with adultery because people are not made to take that kind of pain. Adultery makes God's children want to die instead of please Him with obedience. God gets mad and kills the unfaithful spouse for hurting His child's feelings. For breaking their heart. That's when I made this proverb, that our feelings are more important than your lives.

So, what I'm trying to say here is that God showed me that it is my own desires for her that I want to please, and not to please God. That's where the battle is. In your body (Jms. 4:1-10). Thus, we Christians walk around, blood bought by faith in Jesus, and anointed with the Holy Spirit, and have sinful desires in the body that need to be sanctified and mortified with God's Holy Spirit and God's word, the Bible. We feel sexual things for other people. Other married Christians and any good-looking person of the opposite sex. Those sexual feelings and all wicked feelings are why we commit sin after we get saved.

I want you to think about what God said above in red, that she will die if she commits adultery. God will kill her for her husband. There will be problems between him and I and our families. It will open a bunch of bad things, a "can of worms" as the saying goes.

My point is that there's another reason to listen to God. Not only because you love Him, but because you don't want those problems. You want the good life of listening to God, right? Then put to death that sinful desire because as a Christian, its power to make you commit adultery is broken through the Spirit & the word inside you.

The Curse of Sin is Broken by Jesus' Death on the Cross

Galatians 3:13

New King James Version

¹³ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a {Cross}”),

Though we have sinful desires in the body, its power to make us sin is broken because Jesus forgave us on the Cross and gave us the Holy Spirit. The power of sin is broken, but it lies broken inside you and you get rid of it by listening to God because you love Him.

The Consequences of Not Listening to God

1. God's Rejection

The Life of King Saul {1 Samuel chapters 8 thru 16}

God is Rejecting You Because You Won't Listen to Him

Have you been sensing that God is rejecting you? This is what the Holy Spirit does when you don't listen to Him. God wants to give you the good life but you're not listening to Him ... you know it's God doing it. He's acting like an enemy like He was with king Saul. Everything is going wrong and you're losing that power to obey God without hesitation. You remember what it used to be like, and you lost it ... you're trying to understand ... this is called God's rejection ...

God wants you to know that the story of king Saul is about God rejecting you because you don't listen to Him (1 Sam. 8-16). If you think God left you, or see that everything is going backwards and that God has stopped helping you listen to Him, it's because you're not listening to God.

If you see that, it is God showing you. You know what to do. Confess & repent (1 Jn. 1:9). When you do, that is God giving you repentance (2 Tim. 2:25). The entrance of God's word gives light (Ps. 119:130). God first shows us our sins. Coupled with that born-again need to please God, you repent once you know what's hindering your fellowship with the Holy Spirit. This is how God gives us repentance (2 Tim. 2:25).

After this, God will restore your fellowship with Him. That's what it's called when God helps you, or makes you, listen to Him. You're missing the Holy Spirit ... The Holy Spirit will suddenly give you back the power to listen to Him. That's what you lost ... but the Lord hasn't left you. He's correcting you.

You're not like king Saul. The Holy Spirit is not going to depart from you over your disobedience like He did to king Saul because you're repenting. You love God, that's why you're listening to what He's telling you is wrong in your fellowship with Him. You're willing and obedient.

I made a list of what God told me to do to restore my fellowship and get back the power to listen to God. It's personal so I'm not writing it out here. The Holy Spirit isn't leaving me as you think, because I repented once the Holy Spirit showed me where I did not listen to God, and I repented quickly because I was willing ... Lord, keep me from secret faults ... you will repent once God shows you what they are because you've been born-again.

Psalm 19:12-13

Modern English Version

¹² Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.

¹³ Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be upright and innocent from great transgression.

Isaiah 1:18-20

Modern English Version

¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

¹⁹ If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

²⁰ but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

God Is in Control

Proverbs 16:9

Authorized (King James) Version

⁹ A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

Jeremiah 10:23

Authorized (King James) Version

²³ O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Proverbs 3:5-8

Modern English Version

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;

⁶ in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.

⁷ Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil.

⁸ It will be health to your body, and strength to your bones.

Philippians 2:12-13

New Living Translation

¹² Dear friends, you always followed my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away, it is even more important. Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear.

¹³ For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

Job 5:8-18

Modern English Version

⁸ “Indeed, I would appeal to God, and before God I would set forth my case,

⁹ who does the great and the inscrutable, wonders without number.

¹⁰ He gives rain on the surface of the earth and sends water on the outdoor places.

¹¹ He sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

¹² He frustrates the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.

¹³ He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the scheme of the shrewd is swiftly stopped.

¹⁴ In the daytime they encounter darkness, and at noontime they grope as in the night.

¹⁵ But the needy He saves from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

¹⁶ So the helpless has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

¹⁷ “How happy is the man whom God corrects! Therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty,

¹⁸ for He wounds, but He applies the bandage; He injures, but His hands also heal.

Deuteronomy 30:15-16

New King James Version

¹⁵ “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,

¹⁶ in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.

Check out this video about losing the power to listen to the Holy Spirit ...

If you’ve been struggling with obedience, let me pray for you

2. Madness and Mental Problems

   
   

When God rejects you because you won't listen to Him, it's going to drive you crazy. Madness. Mental problems. That's what it's called when you lost that power to listen to God. You seem to have lost that joy and strength to stay close to the Holy Spirit.

When everything works together for your good because you've loving and listening to God, you get conditioned to it. But when suddenly the Holy Spirit stops helping you, and you know it's Him doing these things, it makes you crazy. God strikes you with madness.

Watch this video about what God does to you when you don't listen to Him. He rejects you and drives you crazy. Read the entire chapter of Deuteronomy 28. I copied & pasted what I think are the best for what I'm saying in this post, read it and you will see things that are your best parts.

The #1 way Satan Confuses Christians

Deuteronomy 28:15-34

New King James Version

Curses on Disobedience

¹⁵ “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

¹⁶ “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

¹⁷ “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

¹⁸ “Cursed shall be the {offspring} of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

¹⁹ “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

²⁰ “The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.

²¹ The Lord will make the {pestilence} cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.

²² The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching {blight}, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

²³ And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.

²⁴ The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

²⁵ “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become {a terror} to all the kingdoms of the earth.

²⁶ Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.

²⁷ The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.

²⁸ The Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of heart.

²⁹ And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.

³⁰ “You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes.

³¹ Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them.

³² Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be {nothing that you can do}.

³³ A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.

³⁴ So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.

God Judges Us in This Life Like This

So That We Are Not Condemned with the World for Sin to the Second Death After This Life

1 Corinthians 11:31-32

Authorized (King James) Version

³¹ For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

³² But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Hebrews 12:1-17

Living Bible

Take God's Correction

You Want the Goodness of God That Comes from Obeying Him

1 Since we have such a huge crowd of men of faith watching us from the grandstands, let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds us back, and especially those sins that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up; and let us run with patience the particular race that God has set before us.

² Keep your eyes on Jesus, our leader and instructor. He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross because of the joy he knew would be his afterwards; and now he sits in the place of honor by the throne of God.

³ If you want to keep from becoming fainthearted and weary, think about his patience as sinful men did such terrible things to him.

⁴ After all, you have never yet struggled against sin and temptation until you sweat great drops of blood.

⁵ And have you quite forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you, his child? He said, “My son, don’t be angry when the Lord punishes you. Don’t be discouraged when he has to show you where you are wrong.

⁶ For when he punishes you, it proves that he loves you. When he whips you, it proves you are really his child.”

⁷ Let God train you, for he is doing what any loving father does for his children. Whoever heard of a son who was never corrected?

⁸ If God doesn’t punish you when you need it, as other fathers punish their sons, then it means that you aren’t really God’s son at all—that you don’t really belong in his family.

⁹ Since we respect our fathers here on earth, though they punish us, should we not all the more cheerfully submit to God’s training so that we can begin really to live?

¹⁰ Our earthly fathers trained us for a few brief years, doing the best for us that they knew how, but God’s correction is always right and for our best good, that we may share his holiness.

¹¹ Being punished isn’t enjoyable while it is happening—it hurts! But afterwards we can see the result, a quiet growth in grace and character.

¹² So take a new grip with your tired hands, stand firm on your shaky legs,

¹³ and mark out a straight, smooth path for your feet so that those who follow you, though weak and lame, will not fall and hurt themselves but become strong.

¹⁴ Try to stay out of all quarrels, and seek to live a clean and holy life, for one who is not holy will not see the Lord.

¹⁵ Look after each other so that not one of you will fail to find God’s best blessings. Watch out that no bitterness takes root among you, for as it springs up it causes deep trouble, hurting many in their spiritual lives.

¹⁶ Watch out that no one becomes involved in sexual sin or becomes careless about God as Esau did: he traded his rights as the oldest son for a single meal.

¹⁷ And afterwards, when he wanted those rights back again, it was too late, even though he wept bitter tears of repentance. So remember, and be careful.

Revelation 21:7-8

Modern English Version

{Paraphrased}

The Second Death is the Lake of Fire

For Those Who Won't Listen to God

⁷ He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My {child}.

⁸ But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars shall have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.”

The Blessings of Obeying God

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

Modern English Version

Blessings for Obedience

1 Now it will be, if you will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, then the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

² And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God.

³ You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.

⁴ Your offspring will be blessed, and the produce of your ground, and the offspring of your livestock, the increase of your herd and the flocks of your sheep.

⁵ Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed.

⁶ You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

⁷ The Lord will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

⁸ The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you set your hand to do, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

⁹ The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He swore to you, if you will keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

¹⁰ All people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.

¹¹ The Lord will make you overflow in prosperity, in the offspring of your body, in the offspring of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

¹² The Lord will open up to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

¹³ The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you will only be above and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, to observe and to do them.

¹⁴ Also, you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

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In Closing ...

God loves us. We need to listen to God about everything. God hurts when He judges and chastises us. I saw His face last night when I was feeling rejected by Him and then repented ... He had a very sad face and said hello like a very nice person ... but the look on His face ... His face was discolored from stress ... like a purple hue on His cheeks ... He was very nice, but sad ... You don't want to see God look at you like that. There are so many reasons to obey God.

1. Because you love Him

2. Because you don't want to suffer the consequences of disobedience. You don't want no one to die over sexual sin in marriage ...

3. Because you don't want to see God look at you like that ... it's a pain you can't handle ... I numb myself to it and try not to remember it ... I can't find a picture of a human face that looks like God's that I saw last night, but an emoji shows it ...

   
   

Ephesians 4:29-31

Modern English Version

Do Not Grieve the Holy Spirit

²⁹ Let no unwholesome word proceed out of your mouth, but only that which is good for building up, that it may give grace to the listeners.

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you are sealed for the day of redemption.

³¹ Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outbursts, and blasphemies, with all malice, be taken away from you.

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The Curse of Sin is Broken

Benny Hinn Worship with Alvin Slaughter and Steve Brock (1992)

"Asleep in the Light" (Keith Green - 1978)

"You Love the World (And You're Avoiding Me" (Keith Green - 1980)

"Gods Is in Control" (Twila Paris - 1993)

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World without end. Amen.