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GOD THE FATHER AND OUR OBEDIENCE
I am being made perfect, faultless and complete, even as my Father in Heaven is perfect, faultless and complete.
Matthew 5:48
I want to be perfect, faultless and complete. I go and sell everything that I am able to sell, goods, possessions and property and I give the money to the poor and I have treasure, accumulated wealth in heaven and I go and follow Jesus.
Matthew 19:21
I address only God in Heaven in His Home, Rule and Care as “Father.”
Matthew 23:9
I don’t address anyone on earth as “Father.” Only God in Heaven, in His Home, Rule and Care should be addressed like that.
Matthew 23:9
I have God as my “Rabbi”, my teacher of the Law.
Matthew 23:8
I don’t let anyone call me “Rabbi” or Teacher and Master. I am not called “Master.”
Matthew 23:8
I have only one “Master”, even, actually “The Messiah”.
Matthew 23:10
God, as Teacher of the Law: - advisor, counsellor, director, educator, guide, instructor, master, mentor, an experienced and trusted advisor, professor, schoolmaster and tutor.
Master: - captain, chief, commander, director, employer, governor, head, manager, overseer, owner, principal, superintendent.
The Messiah: - The One anointed with oil, empowered by God’s resident Holy Spirit to deliver His people and to establish His Kingdom, in His Home, Rule and Care.
I don’t use God’s Name to make a solemn promise, a vow and oath I don’t intend to keep. God will not overlook that.
Deuteronomy 5:11
I don’t use the name of Jehovah, my God, irreverently, disrespectfully or flippantly or use it to swear and promise on oath to a falsehood, to something untrue. I will not escape punishment if I do.
Exodus 20:7
I don’t make solemn promises and vows or oaths! Even to say “By Heavens!” is a sacred promise, vow and oath to God, for the Heavens are God’s throne.
Matthew 5:34
I don’t say by “By the earth!” as it is a sacred promise, vow and oath. For the earth is God’s footstool.
Matthew 5:35
I don’t swear and promise on oath “By Jerusalem!” for Jerusalem is the capital of the
Great King.
Matthew 5:35
I don’t even swear and promise on oath “By my head!” for I can’t turn one hair white or black.
Matthew 5:36
I say just a simple “Yes, I will!” or “No, I won’t!” My word is enough. To strengthen my promise and pledge with a vow and oath shows that something is wrong.
Matthew 5:27
I don’t put the Lord God to a foolish test.
Matthew 4:7
I don’t experiment with God’s patience.
Luke 4:12
I understand why Jesus has come. Jesus has NOT come to cancel the Laws of Moses and the warnings of the prophets. Jesus came to fulfil them and to make them all come true. Jesus came to observe them, keep them, carry them out, comply with them, obey them, perform them, satisfy them and complete them.
With all the earnestness Jesus has, He says, “Every Law in the Book will continue until its purpose is achieved, until all things be accomplished”.
If I or anyone else break the least commandment, instruction and direction and teach others to do so, we shall be least, the smallest significance, in the Kingdom of Heaven, in God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care. But if we teach God’s Laws and obey them and do as they direct, we will be great in the Kingdom of Heaven, in God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care.
Jesus warns us that unless our goodness, our standard of obedience to God’s Laws is greater than and superior to that of certain nominated religious leaders, we can’t get into the Kingdom of Heaven, into God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care at all.
Matthew 5:17-20
It’s not where I worship that counts, it’s not where I like, love, honour, respect and obey God that counts, but how well I worship, how well and how much I like, love, honour, respect and obey God. My worship, my liking, my love, my honour, my respect and my obedience to and for God are spiritual, real and genuine. God is Spirit. God is a Spiritual Being and I have his help and assistance to worship, like, love, honour, and respect and obey Him, as I should. The Father wants this kind of worship, this kind of liking, love, honour, respect and obedience from me.
John 4:21-24
I care about the honour and respect that comes from the only God.
John 5:44
I worship God alone. I like, love, honour, respect and obey God alone, to the exclusion of everyone and everything else.
Commandment 1; Exodus 20:1-2; Deuteronomy 5:7
I worship God and Him alone.
Luke 4:8
I worship only the Lord God. I like, love, honour, respect and obey only the Lord God. I obey only Him. I do only as directed by Him.
Matthew 4:10
I like and love the Lord my God with all my heart, with all my soul, life, self and being, with my entire mind and with all my strength.
Matthew 22:37-39; Mark 12:29-30
I like and love the Lord my God, the one and only God, with all my heart; with all my feelings, impulses, inclinations, affections and desires, with all my soul; with all my life, myself and my whole being, with all my mind; the whole direction of my thoughts and desires, with all my strength; my courage, energy, power and vigour.
Matthew 22:37-39; Mark 12:29-30
I have faith in God. I have a firm relying trust, belief, assurance, confidence, reliance, dependence, expectation and hope in God.
Mark 11:22
I fear God. I have the utmost, the greatest respect for God, who has the power to kill me and us and then to cast me and us into hell, the home of the damned.
Luke 12:5
Other things in life are much more important than bread and food.
Luke 4:4
Bread and food won’t feed men, women and children’s souls, lives, selves and beings. Obedience to and compliance with every Word of God is what we need.
Matthew 4:4
I try to obey and do as directed by every Word of God.
Matthew 4:4
I obey and do as directed by the Father in Heaven, in His Home, Rule and Care, for this is the decisive question. This is conclusive, decided, determined, final, firm, positive, resolute, constant, fixed, inflexible, set, steadfast, unshaken, unwavering question! This is the main problem requiring attention, solution and settlement between God and every person who was, who is and who might yet be born on earth!
Matthew 7:21
I am doing God’s will, wish and desire, plan, purpose and pleasure. I am carrying out God’s orders and I am regarded by Jesus, in relationship, as His brother, sister and mother. I am Jesus’ close relative and relation.
Mark 3:35
I don’t ignore God’s specific, particular, definite and precise orders, His instructions, commands and directions. I don’t substitute my own traditions and customs.
Mark 7:8
I take notice of and I heed, observe and concern myself about God’s specific orders, His particular, definite and precise instructions, commands and directions.
I obey God’s specific orders.
Mark 7:8
I don’t reject God’s Laws and trample them under my feet for the sake honour and interests of tradition.
Mark 7:9
I teach those laws that come from God. I don’t teach man-made laws.
Matthew 15:9
I give God first place in my life, before anyone or anything else and He gladly gives all I need to me.
Matthew 6:33
I make the Kingdom of God, God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care, my first and foremost concern and God always gives me all I need and require from day to day.
Luke 12:31
I am not distracted from the work God plans for me. If I am, this will make me unfit for the Kingdom of God, God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care.
Luke 9:62
I give to God all that is His.
Luke 20:25; Mark 12:17; Matthew 22:21
I am not serving, not enslaved by money, wealth and riches. I am serving, enslaved to God with loyalty and enthusiasm instead.
Luke 16:13
I don’t make any idols, as objects for worship, any images, figures and likenesses resembling animals, birds or fish. I don’t bow down to an image, figure or likeness or worship it in any way. I don’t like, love, honour, respect and obey an image in any way.
Commandment 2; Exodus 20:4
I remember to observe the Sabbath Day as a Holy Day. Six days a week are for my daily duties, but the seventh day is a day of Sabbath rests before the Lord my God. On that day I am to do no work of any kind, nor shall my son, my daughter or my slaves, my employees, whether men or women, or my houseguests. For in six days the Lord made heaven, earth and sea and everything in them, and rested the seventh day, so he blessed and consecrated the Sabbath Day and set it aside for rest.
Exodus 20:8-11
I keep the Sabbath Day holy, as set aside and consecrated by God for rest. This is a command, instruction and direction of the Lord. I work the other six days, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord my God. No work shall be done by me or by any of my household, my sons, my daughters, my servants, my employees, my oxen, my donkeys or my cattle. Even foreigners living among us must obey this law and must do as this law directs. Everybody must rest as I do. Why should I keep the Sabbath? It was because I was a slave and the Lord my God brought me out with a great display of miracles, deeds and actions.
Deuteronomy 5:12-15
I keep, observe and obey the commandments, instructions and directions.
Matthew 19:17
I keep, observe and obey the commandments, instructions and directions on my way to Heaven, to God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care.
I don’t murder or kill anyone.
Commandment 6
I don’t commit adultery with anyone.
Commandment 7
I don’t steal from or rob anyone.
Commandment 8
I don’t lie to any one.
Commandment 9
I don’t cheat on or deceive anyone.
Commandment 8
I honour and respect my parents, my father and my mother.
I like and love my neighbour, everyone around me both near and far, as much as I like and love myself.
Matthew 19:19
I don’t even look at a woman with craving and lust in my eyes; otherwise I have already committed adultery with her in my heart and mind, the centre of my feelings, impulses, affections and desires.
Commandment 7; Matthew 5:27
I will not divorce my wife, except for unfaithfulness, that is fornication before marriage; otherwise I cause her to commit adultery. He who marries her commits adultery.
Commandment 7; Matthew 5:32
I don’t cheat, even a little, because then I won’t be honest with great responsibilities.
Commandment 8: Luke 16:10
I don’t want to own my neighbour’s slaves or employees, his or her oxen, his or her donkeys or transport or anything else he or she owns.
Commandment 10; Exodus 20:17
I am not envious of and I don’t hanker after and feel a strong desire for my neighbour’s house.
Commandment 10; Exodus 20:17
I don’t envy and begrudge another man or woman for his or her home, his or her land, his or her servants, his or her oxen, his or her donkeys, nor anything else he or she owns.
Commandment 10; Deuteronomy 5:21
I am wary, cautious about possible dangers and problems and I take care for I am not always wishing for what I don’t have.
Luke 12:15
I don’t want to sleep with my neighbour’s spouse, be it husband or wife.
Commandment 10; Exodus 20:17
I don’t burn with desire for another person’s spouse, be it husband or wife.
Commandment 10; Deuteronomy 5:21
I am not a dropout from the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, God the Father’s Home, Rule and Care.
Matthew 13:21