Psalm 112:1 “Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!”

1. The Call to obedience. To obey Christ is to Love Christ. - Deuteronomy 6:4-9

- John 14:20-21 - 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps (tereo: obey, guard) them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

2. The Command of Obedience. To Love Christ is to obey the Gospel and Live the Gospel. It is the reassurance of our faith. - Luke 10:27

- 1 John 3:19-24 - By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. 24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.”

3. The Act of obedience. To Obey the Gospel and to Live the Gospel is to Love the Family. To believe is to Obey. - John 15:10

- 1 John 5:1-5 - “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”

4. Those who love Christ gird (make ready for action and secure) their minds by obeying the Truth! - Psalm 143:10

- 1 Peter 1:13-15 - “Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

1 Corinthians 16:13-14

2 Timothy 3:16-17

"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God[a] may be complete, equipped for every good work."

The Word - God Said - “Hear The Word, Do The Word” - James 1

1. “...for you know that the testing of your faith produces…”

2. “...ask in faith, with no doubting…”

3. “...lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation,...”

4. “But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.”

5. “Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth,...”

6. To Do the Word requires the Word to be implanted in you. Hebrews 10:16 - “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”

- James 1:19-21 - “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

7. To do the Word requires that you not only hear but to act on it. - Deuteronomy 8:1 - “The whole commandment that I command you today vyou shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers."

- James 1:22-25 - “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.”

8. Pure religion is to be a Doer of the Word. - James 4:17 - “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”

- James 1:26-27 - “If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.”