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Obedience to God is the believer’s duty

By Pastor Dennis Williams

Obedience to God is the believer’s duty

1. Obeying the Lord:

A. Obedience to God is our duty

Eccl 12:13: Keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man
Deut:13:4: Walk after the Lord… and Keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and serve Him
Deut 27:9,10: Thou art the people of God.. therefore obey the .. Lord
Jer:11:7: I earnestly protested.. saying, Obey My voice
Jn 2:5: Whatsoever He (Jesus) saith unto you, do it (See also Lk 17:10)

B. Obey wholeheartedly

Rom:6:17: Ye have obeyed from the heart that doctrine
Deut:26:16: The Lord hath commanded thee to do these statues .. keep and do them with all thine heart, and all thy soul
Psa. 119:34: I shall keep Thy law.. with my whole heart

C. Obey in all things:

Deut. 5:32: Observe to do as the Lord… commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left
2 Ki. 22:2: He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord… and turned not aside to the right hand or the left (See also 2 Cor. 2:9)

2. If you love and know the Lord, you will obey Him:

Jn 14:15, 21: If ye love Me, keep My commandments (See also vs.23)
1 Jn 2:3: We know we know Him, if we kkep His commandments
1 Jn 3:24: He that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in Himm
1Jn 2:4: He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar
2 Jn 6: This is love, that we walk after His commandments

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The Substance of Things Hoped For is Faith

By Pastor Dennis Williams

Without faith it will be impossible to please the Lord. Faith will come and increase as we read and study the Bible. Faith cannot be conjured up. Moreover, faith must be cultivated by a relationship with the Lord through His Word.

Faith is a belief in the unseen

2 Cor 4:18: We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.. which are eternal..
2 Cor 5:7: We walk by faith, not by sight
Heb 11:27: By faith he…. endured, as seeing Him Who is invisible

Faith is important and real

Heb 11:1: Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen

We are saved by Faith

Jn 3:16: Whosoever believeth in Him (Jesus) should have everlasting life
Jn 3:36: He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life
Lk 7:47-50: Thy sins are forgiven. They faith hath save thee
Acts 10:43b: Whoever believeth in Him… receive remission of sins
Acts 16:31: Believe on… Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved
Rom 5:1: Being justified by faith , we have peace with God
Gal 3:26: Ye are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus
Eph 2:8-9: For by grace are ye saved through faith

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The Flesh can be a snare in a Christian’s Life

By Pastor Dennis Williams

The Bible says that we must “put off “the works of the flesh”.

“The night is far spent, the day is at hand, let us therefore put off the works of darkness, (Romans 13:13)

The Bible also talks about a person being ignorant to Satan’s devices. We as Christians have the Word of God as our guide and we “should not be ignorant of Satan’s devices”.

2 Cor 2:11: Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

The Word of God speaks of two types of Lives. The first type is the Natural Life or Bios. Bios makes reference to our natural and earthly life here on this earth. The Bible also referes to Zoe which refers to the resurrection or eternal life that Jesus us when we commit our lives to him.

John 14:6: Jesus said: I am the way the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.

The Word of God also talks about three types of people:

The Natural person

He is unsaved
Has the adamic nature
Cannot discern spiritual things and does not want to hear them
Everything about the natural man is opposed to the ways of God

The Carnal person

Lives a life of the world
Jesus is Saviour but not Lord
Not interested in spiritual or eternal things
Not interested in serving the Lord

2 Cor 10:4-5: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

“For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envy ing, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?” 1 Cor 3:3

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Know the power of Jesus

By Pastor Dennis Williams

A Christian must keep their fear of the Lord.

“So will they fear the name of the Lord from the west and east. Is glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift a standard against Him, (Isa. 59:1).

A Christian also must know that they can be free to live in freedom. Freedom from all types of maladies such as : panic, envy, hatred, pride, self-pity addictions, bondages, oppressions, and tortures.

We must get to the root cause of these problems in the Christian’s life.

One of the main points that is associated with these maladies is what the Bible calls the flesh. We can also often know this as the “Old man”. This refers to the part of man that is the person’s flesh. The part of the person that is rebellious and wants to do its own will rather than the will of God and is open to be influenced by the Devil.

The other point is that this influence can also come from the influence of evil spirits. The demons will hook themselves to a person’s flesh and mind. When this happens, the demons must be forced to leave by the authority of the name of Jesus. Christians must know that the Devil is our enemy and does not want to be discovered. He does not have to bother the people in the world because he already has them in his control.Sometimes Christians want to try and ignore this part of the Bible and not incorporate these Biblical principals into their lives. The Bible says that “my people perish for a lack of knowledge”. Many will choose to remain tormented than to acknowledge the influence of evil spirits in their lives. Some will even blame it on all types of ideas and fallacies rather than to get right to the meat of the Bible and call it what it is.Every problem is NOT the devil. Yes, some of the Christian’s problems will come from their willfulness to sin. We as Christians must devote our lives to the Lord Jesus Christ in submission to His will and not our own.

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Using Spiritual Authority to Cast out Demons

By Pastor Dennis Williams

The Spiritual Authority of the Lord Jesus Christ is needed to cast out demons. The only ones that possess this authority is Bible believing Christians. The Bible shows that ALL Bible believing Christians have this authority to use the name of Jesus to cast out demons. This Spiritual Authority is exercised by a spoken command using the name of Jesus.

Jesus gave all believers an exhortation in John 20:21: Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. We are sent to do the same works as Jesus in John 14:12: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. Moreover, we were invested with this authority to do the work of the ministry in Mark 13:34: For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

Using our authority in the name of Jesus Christ is what causes the demons to move. The scriptures in Mark 1:27 says that they were amazed when they saw Jesus using authority to cast out the unclean spirits. The Bible says that the spirits obeyed the word of the Lord. In Luke 4:35 the Bible shows that Jesus was unafraid to speak the word and see the demons move and flee.

Luke 4:35-37: And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. 36 And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.

Luke 10:17-19: The disciples returned to Jesus and said : “And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power (translates to AUTHORITY) to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

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Newness of Life- A New Creature

By Pastor Dennis Williams

Newness of life is becoming a new creation or a new creature in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:17 says that: 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

This scripture is basically saying that a Christian should not behave themselves the same way that was done in their life before Christ. There should be a newness of spirit.

Romans 7:6: But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

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