TODAY’S “GOOD NEWS” – June 13, 2004

MESSAGE:  “OBEDIENCE:  The Pathway To Great Joy”

SCRIPTURE:  Acts 4:13-22

KEY VERSE:  v. 19-20  “You yourselves judge which is right in God’s sight—to obey you or to obey God.”

FOCUS:  God’s call to us is never separated from our obedience.

 INTRODUCTION:  “There might be things that God wants done and plans to get done through me, but if for any reason I’m unwilling to live, believe, or do what God

 wants, then He might repent that He had chosen me and choose someone else to do what must be done.  He would not quit loving me.  But He couldn’t continue to use me.”       ~ Kenneth L. Chafin

I.  OBEDIENCE IS GOD’S ARRANGEMENT FOR SERVICE

II.   OBEDIENCE IS THE EXPRESSION OF TRUE DEVOTION

III.   OBEDIENCE IS THE PATHWAY TO A GREAT OUTCOME

CONCLUSION:  “When we set up ourselves as our own lords, and shake off God’s rule, we cast away His sanction and help in all the deeds of our self-will, however unaltered their outward appearance may remain.” 

                                                                                                ~ Alexander Maclaren

PREACHING:  Pastor Holland Lewis