Dr Charles Stanley - The School of Obedience - Part 2

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learn that it's the school of obedience. It's the process of learning to walk. But

when you and I take a step of obedience and we see what God has done. We take

another step. We see what God has done. We take another step. What happens? Then

when somebody says, for example, the Christian life must be a boring life. I

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most exciting, thrilling life a person can live because remember this. You are

tuned in to Almighty God.

Welcome to In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. The idea of a

routine can have a negative connotation. But there are many habits that are

truly beneficial. Today's message reminds us that building a lifestyle of

obedience begins by consistently following God's direction in simple matters.

Our series The Joy of Obedience continues. Let's listen in to Dr. Stanley's

message.

It's not always easy to obey God, but it's always the wisest thing to do and it's

always the best. God says, you obey me. Here's what I'm going to do for you. You

obey me and I'm going to bless you. Remember this. It is absolutely impossible to

obey God without blessing because God has chosen to bless obedience. And we

as his children, as we learn to walk in his ways and walk in his will, then we're

going to be blessed over and over and over again. Somebody says, well, what is

obedience in a way? Obedience is doing God's will, God's way, in God's timing.

It's doing what God says when he says it and the way he says do it. So when you

think in terms of obedience, that's really simple. Doing what God says when he

says and how he says do it. And so when we think in terms of obedience and we

think in terms of the fact that that's what God requires of us, what I'd like

for us to do, I'd like to take a few moments to talk about some principles here

that will help you in obedience, for example. Obedience isn't something that you and I

just know automatically since we trust that Jesus Christ is our Savior.

And we know certain things would certainly be obedience to God and certain things

would not be. And so therefore, what we want to talk about is how do we learn

to obey God, the school of obedience? Well, one of the first principles is simply

this. That is, first of all, you must trusting. You will not obey a God, you do not trust.

You just will not. And so the drill truth is that I would say that most disobedience is

a lack of trust in God. Well, I know that's what he said, but whenever you put a

butt behind something God has said, you're just about to head out in the wrong

direction because God doesn't make any promises that he either cannot or will not fulfill.

So one of the first things I must learn to do is to trust him. The next thing I'd have you jot

down is simply this. That is, if you're not going to learn to walk in obedience to him,

we must also learn, listen to this, learn to listen to the quiet promptings of the Holy Spirit.

What do you mean about that? God does not shout in an audible voice. Every once in a while,

I think I've heard him shout quietly to my own heart. Maybe when I was stubborn,

there was not listening or whatever it might be. But God doesn't shout at us. Now,

remember this, when you got saved, the Holy Spirit came into your life to endure you and to seal

you as a child of God. One of his works is the work of being a helper. So we had the wonderful

promise of the Holy Spirit to prompt us, to guide us, to give us a sense of direction,

to help us in our reasoning, to help us in our thinking. Remember, he's the helper,

to help us in our faith, to help us in our struggle, to help us in our...

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Our questions to help us in our doubts to make the wise decision to do what the Holy Spirit would

have us to do. That is listening to the Spirit of God. That's why waiting, being quiet, being alone,

meditating upon the Word of God, listening to Him, we are going to get the right answer because

God's committed to showing us exactly what to do. Another lesson in the school of obedience is

that sometimes we must walk when the way is not clear. So when I wait a minute, sounds like a

contradiction. Walk when the way is not clear. Now watch this. God spoke to Abraham in a very pagan

society. He just revealed Himself and said to Him, He said, I want you to get up, out of your family,

out of your country, out of your land and go to a land that I will show you. He didn't tell him

where he was going and didn't tell him how he was going to get them. Look in verse 8 of Hebrews 11.

By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive

for an inheritance, and he went out not knowing where he was going. He didn't know where he was

going. He just knew that God spoke to him, told him to get up and leave his family, separate

himself from his family, and the pagan society in which he lived, and he said to a land that I will

show you. Now, you said, no wait a minute, God, you're not going to tell me to go somewhere that

telling me where I'm going. Yes, you will. Here's the perfect example. Listen, he heard the call,

he didn't know where, but he knew to obey God. Now listen, there will be times when God will make

it very clear what the next decision is. You don't know what the end result is. You don't know what

the consequences are. You don't know where that's going to lead. You know what? I'm not responsible

for the consequences. I'm not responsible for the next decision. I'm only responsible for

listening, obeying the light that I have at this moment and this decision no matter what it might

be. And so God isn't committed to showing me the full picture. And I think all of us would agree

years ago in our life, and we were saved if God had shown us 10 years or 20 years or 30 or our

whole life at one time. Most of us would have said, God, I can't hand it. Take me home now.

I'll be happy to go into heaven because there's no way I can stand that. Why doesn't God show us?

I'll tell you why because this is a way God operates. When you not make a decision of obedience,

we don't even realize what's happening. We're becoming stronger in our faith. We get blessed.

We begin to realize how great God is. We take another step. And what happens? We learn to walk

in obedience just like a child walks. And when a person is saved, they're so like a child,

they get up and sometimes not knowing the laws of God, not knowing the will of God, not knowing the

God even has a plan for their life, not going what God's purpose is for their life. They stumble

and fall and they're faltering all of themselves. Instead of us criticizing, we ought to be praying

for them because they don't know the principles of obedience. They don't know about waiting upon God.

They don't know the absolute essentiality of meditating upon the Word of God and searching

His Word to know His mind. And so what happens? They falter and they fall. And so what you and I

have to do, we have to encourage people like that because we understand exactly what's happening

in their life. We understand. God doesn't always show us everything we ought to do. We have to

learn. It's the school of obedience. It's the process of learning to walk. But when you and I

take a step of obedience and we see what God has done, we take another step, we see what God has

done. We take another step. What happens? Then, so when somebody says, for example,

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Nothing boring about this like this is the most exciting, thrilling life a person can live

because remember this. You are tuned in to Almighty God. You have a relationship to Almighty God.

You have a connection to Almighty God who's promised to protect you, love you,

care for you, support you, give you peace and joy and contentment. Allow you to suffer,

allow you to hurt, allow tribulation, allow trials, allow conflict. Yes, but to be with you every

single step of the way and the fact that he has a plan and a purpose for your life,

walking in his will, walking obediently before him, trusting him, relying upon him,

waiting upon him, watching him work is the most exciting thing there is about life because you

cannot fail. Listen, you may fault and fall but you cannot fail in your walk because God is

there to help you. And so when you think about you can't wait till God shows you the whole way.

He shows you a step at a time. He's got something in mind. What's he doing? When he's showing us a

step at a time, you know what he's doing? Growing us up. He doesn't call us adults. He calls us

children. Growing us up, teaching us to trust him, teaching us to obey him, teaching us his word,

teaching us to rely upon him, the work of the spirit and our heart, giving us direction,

teaching us to take those big steps out there when we don't know all that's going to happen.

Well, one other principle I like to remember is this, and that is when you and I begin to walk in

his way and we're suddenly going to run into something that we're not looking for and that is that

we must be willing to experience conflict because you are not going to live obediently before

God without having conflict with the world. Remember, we live in a fallen world. He says,

those who live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. You can expect to be disliked by

somebody. You can expect to have enemies in life if you live a godly life. You can expect conflict.

There's going to be conflict and you can look in the scriptures and think about all of God's

saints down through the years and how they suffered conflict. I want you to turn if you

wrote to Luke chapter 14. Here's a passage of scripture that oftentimes people don't understand

and if somebody's unbelievable, they say, well, how could that be in the Bible? That's a contradiction

of the scripture. Jesus said something here that certainly is a contradiction of what he said about

loving everybody. No contradiction in the Word of God. Listen to what he says in Luke chapter 14,

beginning in verse 25. Now great multitudes were going along with him and he turned and said to them,

if anyone comes to me to follow him and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children

and brothers and sisters, yes, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Well, well, well, well,

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It says, you got to hate your father and mother and your wife and your children and

and your own life also. Isn't that a contradiction of scripture? No. What is he saying? Here's

what he's saying. He says, you're going to follow me. You're going to walk in obedience to me.

Obeying me must take priority over the feelings and the attitude and the desires of everybody

even those who are closest to you. When you obey the living God, you're going to have conflict.

When you obey Almighty God, people who are closest to you will not understand you.

He does not mean hate, but he means the priority must be such that it will appear to those

who are closest to you. You don't love me. You wouldn't do that. You wouldn't go in the

ministry if you really cared. Yes, I would. Listen, many young men have come to Georgia

to be engineers and over the years many of them came and they came to be engineers of all kinds

and they'd be here six months or a year or two years, three years or four years. God called

them to preach sitting out there, go home and tell their parents. Well, some of their parents

were very excited. Some of their parents are not excited at all. You mean to tell me that I'm

paid your way for three years to be an engineer and to be able to make money and have a good lifestyle

and now you're going to do what you're going to preach. Well, you're like, I haven't made any money.

That's a poor life. Besides that, that's not, I invested my money in you so you could do something

worthwhile. Tell me that, worthwhile. Let me ask your question. If God calls a young man to preach

and his parents say, we don't want you to do that, we want you to be an engineer, we want you to

make money, we want you to have the things that we didn't have in life and we were absolutely

opposed to that. Should he say, okay, I won't do what God called me to do. You know what this verse

says? Your mother and father may think you hate them. Your wife and children may think you despise

them because they're sometimes when obeying God is extremely, in fact, more painful for others

than it is the person who has to obey. That's what that verse is all about. Has nothing to do with

hating with animosity and anger and hostility and vengeance, thought anybody. It's speaking of

the priority of obedience. We obey God. He says, even if it costs us our own life, we obey the

living God. There will be conflict when you and I learn obedience, but that's part of the

school of obedience. And so when you think about meditating upon His Word, learning to listen to Him,

waiting upon Him, trusting in Him, a conflict that's going to come in our life, then I want you to

notice something else. And that is, if I'm going to learn obedience, I must be in the trust

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Set again, as long as I wait until I can evaluate the consequences, then here's what I'm saying.

I'm willing to consider God's will, but I'm not committed to it. If I have to wait till I get

the consequential picture, then what I'm saying is I'm considering it, but I'm not committed to it.

God wants us so committed to doing His will and walking in His way that it really doesn't make

any difference what the consequences are. Listen, He has planned the best for us. He desires the best

for us. He's waiting to give us His best. What is He waiting for us? He's waiting for us to get in the

pathway of obedience to walk in it so that we are able to handle the blessing. If you can't beat it

and you can't equal it and you suffer the results of disobeying it, wisdom says obey the will of

God no matter what and you come out winning every single time. Leave the consequences to Him.

Then the last thing I'd simply mention is this and that is if I'm going to let it really

truly walk in obedience, I must be willing to accept God's discipline for my disobedience

because there will be times when you are disobeying. If I'm going to learn to walk in obedience,

I must be willing to accept His discipline, His chastisement, when I disobeying. Now I want to add

something to that I'm waiting till the end to edit and when I say I must be willing to accept His

discipline, His chastisement, when I disobeying Him, listen, watch this and accept it with thanksgiving.

Oh no wait a minute, hold it, hold it, hold it. You tell Him even God whips me out to thank Him?

Yes. Well you can't really do that. That's just something preach at all. That's not real.

No, it's not. It's very real. Now let me tell you why it's real. Turn if you will to Hebrews

chapter 12 for a moment and listen to what He says. Hebrews chapter 12 beginning in verse 5.

He says now have you forgotten this? He says listen this. My son do not regard lightly the

discipline of the Lord nor faint. Don't lose heart when you're approved by Him, but those whom He

loves, listen, for those whom the Lord loves, He disciplines, He chastises. He scourges every

son whom He receives. Now think about this and this is so very important. We're all in moments of

weakness. We're going to disobeying at times and you know what He's going to do? Listen if we

instantly recognize it, ask Him, thank Him for His forgiveness, repent of it right then we'll

miss most of it. We'll miss most chastisement. If there's instantaneous, but if we don't and we

get into something or whatever it might be, God's going to chastises. Now why is He going to do it

because He loves us and because He has this fantastic plan for us and because He has a will for

our life and He wants us to walk in His path. He doesn't want us out of His path. So what is He going

to do? He's going to send enough pain to get me back in the path. Now therefore when I see what His

motive is, it's always love. I'm going to thank Him for not letting me stay off the path. I'm

going to praise Him for reaching down and not ignoring me when the truth is I ignored Him and not

just walking away from me and letting me just move on and on. Putting enough pressure and enough

pain and enough heartache until I finally say yes Lord, forgive me. I just want to thank you for

that. I repent of that. Get back on the path. Chastisement is a blessing from God and if I'm going to

learn to walk in obedience, it's what I'm going to learn. I'm going to learn that when His chest

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someone you love or someone you love to hate because of something I did or did not do. And therefore

what's he doing? He is expressing love to me. It's love from his heart, pain to me. Love from his

heart, suffering from evil. What is he doing? What's he doing? Getting us back on path, getting

us back in his world so he can do what? So listen, so you and I can experience the maximum of God's

blessing. If you could just rivet that into your children's hearts. If you could just somehow

rivet that into their minds that God's best waits in store for those who willing to walk in obedience

to Him. And you cannot beat that lifestyle. There is no way for you to have what God has in

mind until you walk in obedience to Him. And so the school of obedience is a process. I've taken

many of those lessons and I've failed them all probably at one time or the other. But you know what?

Watch this. This is a key. If you will observe what happens in the life of those who are obedient

and you observe what happens in the life of those who are disobedient, it won't take you long

to figure out that anybody who is thinking at all is going to say not worth it. Disobedience not

worth it. The pleasure of the moment is not worth. Listen, the consequences of the future.

And this is where most people live. Just like this. As far as they want to look, just like that.

The only thing they're interested in is what can I have today? What satisfies me today? What

gratifies me today without looking at the consequence? What are the consequences of sin, pain, hurt,

suffering, loss, ultimately the wrath of God? What's the consequence of obedience to God?

Blessing upon blessing upon blessing. It may be through a value of pain, maybe hurt,

maybe trials, maybe tribulation, maybe conflict. Oh, it may not be any of those or some of them.

But the ultimate result is God's very best for his children. And the issue is just real simple.

Do I want to develop a lifestyle of obedience? Do I want the spirit of obedience

to absolutely control my thinking and my feelings? You see, it's one thing to obey God because of

fear of what's going to happen. It's something else to get so free that you obey God just because

you want to. And listen carefully. You know what Jesus said? Listen to this. He can say so much,

just wipe me out sometime. Listen to this. How simple and short. If you love me,

you will obey me. If you love me, you will obey me. You know how I can tell with

I love him or not? Not how many sermons I preach. Not how hard I may study. Not how all the things

that I do for the glory of God has nothing to do with it. You can do all those things, the wrong

voting. You know how you can tell how much you love him? Look at your record of obedience versus

disobedience and you'll tell yourself how much you love him. Thank you for joining us, son.

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