OUTLINE:
Serving Truth, Not Feelings
We don’t have the right to “feel” our doctrines into existence. Whatever we are meant to believe is laid out in the Bible. “You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you” (Deu 4:2).
The Object of Obedience
The Bible interprets life (and our feelings therein); life doesn’t interpret the Bible. The object of our obedience must be truth alone, which is the Word of God (“grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ” – Jn 1:17b).
Obedience
Obedience isn’t just wrought with blessings, but it is an imperative, an absolute; it isn’t optional for a believer. This is something Jesus plainly stated (Jn 14:15, 15:8-14).
Obedience
If “grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ” (Jn 1:17b), then the object of our obedience is Christ Jesus, Himself!
Heb 12:7
It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Purpose Gives Direction
Given that the Lord has revealed real PURPOSE for us, the point is that we don’t misappropriate our lives once saved.