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*Mature Christians Are Obedient Christians*
1 John 2:3-11
I heard a story recently of a preacher who was sitting in a stall in a bathroom.
He was sitting there and the man in the next stall said, “Hey, how are you doing?”
The preacher said, “Fine, thank you.”
The man said, “What are you doing tonight?”
The preacher said, “I’m plan to be at home with my wife.”
The man said, “You want to go out to eat together?”
The preacher said, “No, I said I was going home to be with my wife.”
The man then said, “Honey, let me call you back I’ve got a man next to me that is answering all my questions.”
I want to ask some questions this morning.
John is giving a test and here are the questions:  What is the one true test that determines whether a man s faith is real or not?
What is the one word that determines whether you are a mere professor of salvation or a possessor of salvation?
What is the greatest single thing that God desires from his children?
These are the three questions on the test.
But they each have only one answer and they all have the same answer.
They all can be answered in one word.
The magic word with God is obedience.
No matter what you are giving to God.
Regardless of what you are doing for God, no matter where you are going for God.
No matter how much you are believing God, if you are not living in total obedience to God, it is not enough.
The bottom line with God is obedience Jesus said in John 14:15, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”
It is not enough just to say you love Jesus.
It is not enough just to believe in Jesus, the bottom line with God is obedience.
“Trust and obey for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.”
Do you want me to tell you why Christians are not happy in their faith?
They’re saved but they’re enduring it rather than enjoying it.
They’re simply not being obedient.
Remember, there is no other way to be happy in Jesus us but to trust and obey.
Every single aspect of your Christian life hinges on your obedience to God.
If you only knew how crucial obedience is to your spiritual happiness, for your spiritual health, for your spiritual holiness, and for your spiritual helpfulness.
Notice just how important obedience to God really is.
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Our Assurance Depends on Obedience
John is not only interested that people come to know the Lord.
But that people who do know the Lord know that they know the Lord.
The acid test for assurance with John is obedience.
You cannot live in disobedience to God and be sure of your salvation at the same time.
Assurance with obedience is certainty.
But assurance without obedience is mere presumption.
a. Obedience is the test of our profession
·  He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
(1 John 2:4)
John is describing a man whose lips say one thing but whose life says another.
The apostle James said basically the-same thing.
·  But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.”
Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
(James 2:18)
There are two things that bear witness to my salvation, one bears witness to me and one bears witness to others.
God’s Word bears witness to my spirit that I am a child of God.
My works bear witness to others that I am a child of God.
It is not my works that prove I am saved.
It is God’s word that proves I am saved, but it is my works that back up my words.
I’m afraid we have too many “professing” Christians and too few “possessing Christians.”
As one Chinese said who came over to America, “the problem with Christians over here is that they are too much talky-talky and not enough walky-walky.”
·  “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
(Matthew 7:21)
Good works do not make you saved.
For Jesus went on to say in verses 22-23 of that same chapter that there will be many who prophesy and who exorcized and who performed many miracles but they will not enter into the kingdom of Gods no good works do not make you saved but they are witnesses to the fact that you are saved, obedience to God is an outward assurance of your inward salvation.
Charles Finney, one of the greatest revival preachers ever known, said this, “Revival is nothing less than a new beginning of obedience to God.
Whereas mind and conscience may assent to truth when revival comes obedience to the truth is the one thing that matters.”
Many Christians do not need reassurance.
They need a revival.
You will never have complete assurance of your salvation until you become completely obedient to God.
There are no substitutes for obedience.
Some Christians try to substitute things for obedience but to no avail.
It is not a substitute for obedience.
There are many who say well, I am not doing for God what I ought to do but you pray for me that one of these days I’ll get around to doing that, friend, is not enough.
Stewardship is no substitute for obedience.
There are many churches and many individuals who are giving “guilt money” to God.
Service is no substitute for obedience.
Obedience is not just doing something for God.
It is doing the right thing for God.
You see there is a real difference between obedience and service you can be serving God and yet not obeying God.
Obedience is not doing anything for God.
It is doing the right thing for God.
Obedience is doing what God wants you to do.
When God wants you to do it where God wants you to do it, the way God wants you to do it.
Going through the motions.
Lip syncing with the trumpet.
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Obedience is a test of our position
·  …By this we know that we are in Him.
(1 John 2:5b)
How do you know if Jesus is in you and if you are in Jesus?
One test John says will suffice that of obedience, keeping his commands.
On the walls of a medieval castle were written these words:
 
You call me master and obey me not;
You call me light and see me not;
You call me way and walk me not;
You call me life and desire me not;,
You call me wise and follow me not;
You call me fair and love me not;
You call me rich and ask me not;
You call me eternal and seek me not;
You call me gracious and trust me not;
You call me noble and serve me not;
You call me mighty and honor me not;
You call me just and fear me not;
If I condemn you blame me not.
2. Our Attitude Depends upon Obedience
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