Obedience leads to Righteousness…..

“The wise in heart will be called understanding.   And to speak in a pleasing way helps people know what you say is right.

Understanding is a well of life to him who has it, but to speak strong words to fools is of no use.

The heart of the wise has power over his mouth and adds learning to his lips”.  Prov. 16:21-23 NLV

Jesus tells us that it is for us to know the mystery of the Kingdom.  

As we read the parable of the sower, we see that Satan comes immediately to steal the word of God out of our hearts (MK 4:13-15), which says, “…the sower sows the word.  And these are by the way side, where the word is sown, but when they have heard, Satan comes immediately, and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts”.    Mark 13:19 explains that it is the word that they did not understand, that was taken away.

Satan comes to steal the Word of God out of our hearts then he can kill and destroy us.  Therefore, it is very important that we mediate on the Word of God until we have a clear understanding, then we can keep what we understand in our heart.

Things get into our heart through our eye gate.

What are you putting before your eyes?

Jesus says, “Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body.  When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light.  But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness.  And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!”  (Matt. 6:22-23 NLT)

Many Christians are trying to live their life, doing the same thing that the world is doing, but Jesus said that we are in this world but NOT of this world.

We are told to be separated from wickedness. (I Cor. 15:33-34)

We are saved by grace, but if we continue to do the things as we did before, we are snared.  Romans 6:16 says, “Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?” (NIV)

The more time we spend in the Word of God, the more powerful our life will be, because we are filling ourselves on the Word of God.