Who is your Director?
Choose who you will obey
Who is directing you
Who are you taking direction from
To whom is obedience owed?
Who is owed obedience?
Who is due obedience?
To whom do you owe obedience?
Obeying real Authority
Act 5:25-32
Rom 13:7 (ESV)
7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Rom 6:16 (ESV)
16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
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Act 5:25 (ESV) And someone came and told them, “Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”
Act 5:26 (ESV) Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.
Luk 12:4-5 (ESV)
4 “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.
5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
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Act 5:27 (ESV) And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them,
Act 5:28 (ESV) saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.”
Act 5:29 (ESV) But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
This is the special term for the obedience which one owes to authority. The apostles were living out Jesus admonition…
Luk 12:4-5 (ESV)
4 “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.
5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
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Act 5:30 (ESV) The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
Act 5:31 (ESV) God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
Act 5:32 (ESV) And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
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Who are you going to obey?
Php 2:5-8 (ESV)
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Dan 3:16-18 (ESV)
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
17 If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”
Jos 24:15 (ESV)
15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
Who is your Director?
Man, your desires, or God?
Choose today who you will obey!
