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What does the LORD really want? . What does the LORD really want? . Moses gives God’s Requirements. ( Deu 10:12-13 NKJV) "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways
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Moses gives God’s Requirements • (Deu 10:12-13 NKJV) "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to • fear the LORD your God, • to walk in all His ways • and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, • {13} "and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?
We choose to fear God • (Prov 1:29 NKJV) Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD,
We choose to fear God • (Neh 1:11 NKJV) "O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." For I was the king's cupbearer.
God can give us up • (Rom 1:28 NKJV) And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
We Need to Know God to Fear Him • (Exo 5:1-2 NKJV) Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.'" • {2} And Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, nor will I let Israel go."
“Walk before Me.” • (Gen 17:1 NKJV) When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, • "I am Almighty God; • walk before Me and be blameless.
No half hearted kind of love • (Mat 22:35-37 NKJV) Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, • {36} "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?“ • {37} Jesus said to him, " 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
The church at Laodicea made God sick • (Rev 2:4-5 NKJV) "Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. • {5} "Remember therefore from where you have fallen; • repent and do the first works, • or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place; unless you repent.
Serve him with all your heart • (Rom 12:1-2 NKJV) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, • that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, • holy, acceptable to God, • which is your reasonable service.
Serve him with all your heart • (Rom 12:1-2 NKJV) {2} And do not be conformed to this world, • but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, • that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Serving Him is a privilege. • (Luke 1:73-75 NKJV) The oath which He swore to our father Abraham: • {74} To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, • Might serve Him without fear, • {75} In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.
What Does the Lord Require? • (Micah 6:8) He has shown you, O man, what is good; • And what does the LORD require of you • But to do justly, • To love mercy, • And to walk humbly with your God?
“When you have done all” • (Luke 17:10 NKJV) "So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, • say, 'We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.'"
It’s not of ourselves • (Eph 2:8-10 NKJV) For by grace you have been saved through faith, • and that not of yourselves; • it is the gift of God, • {9} not of works, lest anyone should boast.
It not of ourselves • (Eph 2:8-10For we are His workmanship, • created in Christ Jesus for good works, • which God prepared beforehand • that we should walk in them.
We are to be obedient children • (1 Pet 1:13-19 NKJV) Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, • be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; • {14} as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;
We are to be obedient children • (1 Pet 1:13-19 NKJV) {15} but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, • {16} because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy." • {17} And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear;
We are to be obedient children • (1 Pet 1:13-19 NKJV) {{18} knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, • {19} but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
By the grace of God I am what I am, • (1 Cor 15:10 NKJV) But by the grace of God I am what I am, • and His grace toward me was not in vain; • but I labored more abundantly than they all, • yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.