OBEDIENCE & BLESSINGS ARE WHAT WE CALL GODLY SUCCESS
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Success
a) What does the Bible say about success? Are there biblical principles about how we can be successful?
b) Definition of Success: The World Versus The Word
i) As the world sees success, it is the achievement of a social status, completing a goal, reaching an objective or the achievement of an action in a specified set of time.
ii) The way God defines success is so much different than the way the world does. Success to those in the world means achieving something that is useful in this life on earth. Success as God sees it is something that is achieved that is of infinite, eternal value in this life and in the life to come. That is a huge difference indeed. The Bible describes success in a much different way than the world does.
2. Obedience And Blessings Are What We Call Godly Success
a) David received much needed help because David had been pleasing God so when we are pleasing God you can be sure we will be blessed. Success sometimes comes in the form of other people helping us but only if we are obedient to the Lord.
1 Chronicles 12:18
“Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you. ”Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.”
b) If our children do not do what we ask them, refuse to obey, don’t keep any of the household rules and disobey what the parents tell them, do you honestly think that the parents will still bless them or even pay them an allowance? Not going to happen. If anyone keeps God’s laws, like striving to obey the Ten Commandments, and we walk in the ways of the Lord, He promises that “you will prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.” When we turn this corner or go that way, if we are obedient, He is going to prosper us. This does not always mean financially but perhaps with health, with a job, in relationships or whatever we do.
1 Kings 2:4
“And keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.”
c) God blessed both Adam and Eve but this blessing was taken away when the disobeyed God and the earth was cursed. Blessings and cursing’s are always tied to obedience or disobedience. If you obey you choose blessings but if you choose to disobey you choose to suffer for it.
Genesis 1:28
“And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
The End ...
1. Successa) What does the Bible say about success? Are there biblical principles about how we can be successful?
b) Definition of Success: The World Versus The Word
i) As the world sees success, it is the achievement of a social status, completing a goal, reaching an objective or the achievement of an action in a specified set of time.
ii) The way God defines success is so much different than the way the world does. Success to those in the world means achieving something that is useful in this life on earth. Success as God sees it is something that is achieved that is of infinite, eternal value in this life and in the life to come. That is a huge difference indeed. The Bible describes success in a much different way than the world does.
2. Obedience And Blessings Are What We Call Godly Success
a) David received much needed help because David had been pleasing God so when we are pleasing God you can be sure we will be blessed. Success sometimes comes in the form of other people helping us but only if we are obedient to the Lord.
1 Chronicles 12:18
“Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you. ”Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.”
b) If our children do not do what we ask them, refuse to obey, don’t keep any of the household rules and disobey what the parents tell them, do you honestly think that the parents will still bless them or even pay them an allowance? Not going to happen. If anyone keeps God’s laws, like striving to obey the Ten Commandments, and we walk in the ways of the Lord, He promises that “you will prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.” When we turn this corner or go that way, if we are obedient, He is going to prosper us. This does not always mean financially but perhaps with health, with a job, in relationships or whatever we do.
1 Kings 2:4
“And keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.”
c) God blessed both Adam and Eve but this blessing was taken away when the disobeyed God and the earth was cursed. Blessings and cursing’s are always tied to obedience or disobedience. If you obey you choose blessings but if you choose to disobey you choose to suffer for it.
Genesis 1:28
“And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
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