The Posture of Obedience PT. 1

“There Is a Blessing on the Other Side of Obedience” explores how trusting God enough to obey unlocks His favor, protection, and purpose in our lives. Drawing from Isaac, Joseph, Solomon, Daniel, Job, Mary, and others, this episode shows that obedience in Scripture consistently leads to supernatural blessing, even in adversity. At the same time, we confront the sobering truth that disobedience—like that of Adam and Eve, Saul, Moses, Jonah, and more—brings loss, separation, and missed inheritance. You’ll be challenged to see God’s commands not as chains but as pathways into the life He designed, and to recognize that partial obedience is still disobedience. Join Pastor Jones as he calls us back to loving, wholehearted obedience, trusting that on the other side of every “yes” to God is a blessing only He can give.

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Deuteronomy, chapter number 28. Ooh, God, you did that. God did that. Ooh, that's gonna be my testimony for the rest of this week. God did that. Every time somebody asks me, somebody say, God did it. It's gonna roll off my tongue. God did it. And I'm gonna give him praise for doing it. God did it. And don't be surprised if I jump out and shout because God did it. God did that. Deuteronomy chapter number 28, verses 1 and 2. Verses 1 and 2. And the word of the Lord reads as thus. It says, I have two different versions, so I'm gonna read the regular King James Version, and then we'll read the new King James Version after this, because there's a little bit of wording difference in there. It says, and it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and do all his commandments, which I command to you this day, that the Lord God God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth, and all those blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Now we're reading it from the New King James Version. It says, Now it shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all his commandments, which I command you today, and that the Lord your God has set you up on high above all the nations of the earth. And all these things or all these blessings shall come upon you and you overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, I want to say thank you. Thank you for this opportunity. We have to come and hear what you have to say. God, forgive us. Forgive me for anything I said, did, thought about that, is not like you. Cast this in the sea of forgetfulness and remember it no more. But I don't want anything to stop or hinder your move in this service. I don't want to stop or hinder your ability to use me for your glory. God, I yell my mind, my spirit, my body, everything about me belongs to you, God. Don't let them hear me, don't let them see me, but God, let them hear and see you. You speak through me, God. Use me as your oracle on this morning to speak to your people, that they may receive the word that you have planted in my spirit on today. God, let me bring it out with eloquently. Let me bring it out with power, with passion. But most importantly, God, let me bring it out with love. God, I ask that you touch those that are going to hear this word, that they may receive it in love, receive it and be hearers, not only hearers, but doers of your word. Bless this word right now. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen and amen. I want to start this discourse off with two quotes. Two different quotes. There is a blessing on the other side of obedience. That quote was from Pastor Lindsay Jones. God is responsible for the consequences of your obedience. We are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience. That comes from Dr. Charles Stanley. When we look at these quotes, one word rises to the surface. Obedience. Obedience means everything to God. Obedience requires trust. Trust requires faith. And faith in turn brings us back to obedience to God's word. All throughout scripture, God speaks, his people listen, and they respond in trust and faith and obey. And as they do, they experience God's blessing. In the Old Testament, Isaac, the son of Abraham, gives a clear picture of this. God appears to Isaac and promised to bless him and his descendants with the land of Canaan, multiplying his offspring like the stars. When Isaac sows in that land, he wreaked a hundredfold in the same year. And the blessings, or and the Lord blessed him so that it continued to prosper, and he became wealthy with great flock, great herd, and many servants. Joseph is another testimony of obedience in adversity. The Lord was with Joseph, causing all that he did to prosper in his master's house. And in Joseph's Egypt, and in Joseph, and in Egypt, Joseph became master, and they recognized that the Lord, the Egyptian master, recognized that the Lord had made everything prosper in Joseph's hand. For Joseph said, God blessed their entire household. Even when Joseph was thrown into prison, the Lord showed mercy and favor. And so whatever Joseph did, the Lord made to prosper. Solomon stands out as a man who received extraordinary wisdom and wealth because he acts for understanding to discern justice rather than seeking personal gain. God granted him wisdom, an understanding, and an understanding heart, unlike any man before him and any man after him. God also added great riches to his life. Daniel and his friends likewise modeled obedience when they refused to defile themselves with the king's food. God brought them favor with those in authority and gave them knowledge and skills and wisdom and literature and other things. And when the king examined them, he felt them ten times better than all the musicians and astrologers that he had in his kingdom. Job shows restoration following steadfast integrity. After Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortune and gave him twice as much as he had before, blessing his latter days more than his beginning with abundance of herd and flock. The New Testament gives us powerful examples of obedience and blessings as well. Mary embodies the faithful obedience with profound consequences when Gabriel told her that she was going to bear a son. She was troubled at first, but yet received a word and trusted in God and found favor in his sight. Cornelius showed how practical obedience, generosity, prayer, and reverence opened the doors to divine faith. He was a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously and prayed continuously, and his prayers and gifts came up as a memorial before God. Peter in his teachings affirmed that righteous living and obedience brings tangible blessings in the life of the believer, urging believers to live in a way that aligns with God's will. James adds that blessings come from those who act on God's word, those who look into or look into the perfect liberty, the perfect law of liberty, and continue in it, not forgetting or not forgetting hearers or not just being hearers, but doers of the word. And they will be blessed as they are. Above all, Jesus is the supreme example of perfect obedience. His flawlessness, fulfillment of his father's will, brought blessings not only to himself, but to all humanity. For Jesus alone fully obeyed every command that God had gave him and secured blessings on behalf of us. Just as Stanley stated, we are responsible for consequences of our obedience, and that we are God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, and we are responsible for our disobedience and the consequences that follow. Don't ever think that you won't have to answer to God for disobeying him. All disobedience will be dealt with by God. God, obeying God tells him that you trust him. Obeying God shows him that you have faith in him. Obeying God means move when he says move. Regardless of what you see, regardless of what you know, regardless of how you may be feeling at that moment. Obedience demonstrates your love for God, backed up by your response to his word. I'm gonna repeat that again. Obedience demonstrates your love for God, and it is backed up by your response to what he has spoken in your life. But when you disobey God, you are telling him, I know what's best for me. You are telling him, I got this under control. You are telling him, I don't need you. You dismiss what he says because you look at what you may see and make a decision and a determination that it's not worth it. Ladies and gentlemen, I must stop here. Don't ever get to a place where you decide that God's direction is not worth it. Don't ever get to a place where you decide to put God on the back burner. Don't ever get to a place where God is giving you direction, and when you look out and see the direction that God is trying to take you, you don't like it, so you say it's not worth it. You will miss out on your blessings because of your disobedience. Just look at Adam and Eve. They rejected God's control or clear command not to eat from the forbidden tree, believing instead that the serpent's deception that they would be wise like God, just Genesis 3. They opened up their eyes to shame and they felt they they were hid from God's presence. And this experience was the first alienation from the creator who created them. This obedience will separate you from God. The enemy is tricky. He wants us to be separated from God, so he'll lie to you, he'll deceive you to try to get you to disobey what God has said, and that separates us from God's love. Ladies and gentlemen, Romans 8, 31 and 39 is something that we should stand on. What shall I say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son but delivered him up for us all. How shall it not be with him so freely giving us all things? What who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies all. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and for more is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who makes intercession for us. What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or pearl or sword. It is written, for your sakes we are killed all the day long. We are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors than him who loves us, through him who loves us. For I am persuaded, who, that neither death nor life, nor either angels or principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor heights, nor depths, nor any created things shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus. We cannot allow disobedience to pull us away from God. Disobedience will cause you to miss out on your inheritance. Just ask the Israelites who witnessed God's miraculous signs in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet, repeatedly, when they were tested, they failed the tests. As punishment, their bodies was falling in the wilderness, their children became bore, and the children bore the consequences of the parents' unfaithfulness for 40 years. That's found in numbers. The spirit of the Lord departed from Saul because he partially obeyed God. But he failed to kill all of the Amorites, the Amalekites, sparing King Agon and the best of his livestock. God rejected him as king and turned away, and he failed to perform his duty as king when God chose David instead of him. King David, even though he was great, he despised God's commands by having Uriah the Hittite murdered and taking his wife. These consequences were perpetuated with a conflict of households. So if you do something like that, God will mess up your household. And he brought adversity against him. That's not in 2 Samuel chapter number 12. Disobeying God will cause unnecessary trouble in your home. Moses struck the rock twice instead of speaking to it as God commanded. And for that he would not allow to enter into the promised land. Disobedience will cause you to miss out on multiple blessings. Jonah fled from God, who told him to go to Nineveh and preach, and said he sailed in the other direction, causing God to send a storm that threatened everyone on the ship and the crew. Disobeying God will cause others to get hurt. Disobeying God will cause others that are aligned with you to walk with you and talking with you. And if you disobey God, they are probably going to get affected by your disobedience. Anani and Sapphire lied to the Holy Spirit by withholding parts of the property and selling it while claiming it was for the benefit of the church. They both fell dead immediately, and they lived not merely as God told them to do so. King Herod accepted divine praise without giving God glory, and an angel immediately struck him down, causing him to be consumed by worms and died. That's found in Acts 20. I mean, sorry, Acts number, chapter number 12. The wilderness generation heard the voice, yet rebelled, their corpses fell, and they and it was prevented, and they were prevented from entering into the promised land because of their unbelief. That's found in Hebrews chapter number three. The pattern is clear here. Disobedience severs relationship with God and brings tangible and often immediate consequences. Whether exclusion from blessings, physical judgment, or spiritual separation. I believe that this message or this theme that we're going into is one that we are going to have to be grateful for. Today was just the introduction to the theme of the message entitled The Posture of Obedience. The posture of obedience. Obedience is not an option. It is mandatory. Obedience is not something that we take lightly. Because there will be many times where God will give you instructions. And they may seem strange. They may seem off. They may seem, God, why this, why that? But it is your obedience to his word that activates the blessing. This theme, the posture of obedience. We'll be taking a walk through the life of Abraham. Ah, God laid Abraham on my spirit because from the first time that he was called, he had to be obedient to the call. How many of us God has called, but yet we failed to move? How many of us, God keeps calling us and calling us and calling us? And we're trying to figure out why things ain't working out in our life. It's because you didn't answer the call. Ladies and gentlemen, God has called you for purpose. God has called you for greatness. You are not just called to be on the sideline as a spectator. No, no, no, no. This spiritual walk, you've got to be a participant. You can't be a spectator on the sideline cheering other people on. No, no, no. You must be an active participant in your miracle in your life. You must be an active participant in where God is telling you to move, to move. Where God is telling you to go and go and go, and you wonder why I'm stagnant in this place. Have you checked the calling that God placed on your life? Ladies and gentlemen, this series is going to be about three weeks, about four weeks long. As you walk through every aspect of Abraham's life, from the first time he heard God's voice, how did he respond? Ladies and gentlemen, God is calling you for greatness. God is calling you out of where you're at to bring you to where he needs you to be. Are you going to heed the call or are you going to be disobedient to the call? Are you going to heed what God is trying to tell you and where God is trying to place you? See, see, see, many of us, who God, will hear Vod's voice. Know God is speaking to us. But because we're looking at physical circumstances, because we're looking at our finances, because we're looking at where we're at, we tend to not go where God wants us to go. But the greatest move that you can ever make is that when God calls you, start walking. The greatest move that you can ever make is that when God calls your net, you say, Here are my Lord. See, God never called us to go where He's not going to prepare us to go to. That just flew over somebody's head. God is not going to grace us with a call and then put us in a place where grace is not going to sustain us and take us. When God makes a call to you, He's not looking at where you're at. He's looking at where He's trying to take you. See, see, the problem is that we tend to look where we're at and we determine it's not worth it. We get comfortable where we're at. We get complacent where we're at. We get comfortable where we're at. And God is trying to take us out of our discomfort and bring us into a place of unfamiliarity because He wants us to trust Him more. See, when you step out onto what God wants you to do, He doesn't show you the plan, He just tells you to go. And He gives you directions as you go. But see, He can't light your path if you're not walking. He can't light your path if you're not walking with Him. I don't know who this message is for, but God is in when I tell you to move, move. Don't worry about what's around you. Don't worry about who's telling you this. Don't worry about who's telling you that. When I begin to speak, go. I can see your future, God says. I'm not looking where you're at, God says. I'm looking where I'm trying to take you. And if you trust me enough, I'll get. You there. If you trust me enough, I'll prepare you. I'll prepare a place for you already. If you trust me enough, let your faith be put into action, and your action is but to walk where I want you to go. God said, if I ask you to move, move, watch, I'm gonna put you in places that is going to bless you. You you might be okay where you're at, but I got something greater for you on the other side. Where you at maybe look good for you and comfortable for you, but God says, I have something greater for you. All I'm asking for you to do is move. All I'm asking you for you is just go. Don't question it. Don't look back. Because a lot of times when we begin to question it, we begin to analyze it, we begin to look at it, and sometimes it don't look good. But God is saying, regardless of what it looks like, if I'm going before you, who can be against you? If I'm telling you to step out, that means I'm preparing the walkway for you to go. If I'm telling you to move, that means I'm going to make it conducive for my presence to be present with you. If I'm telling you to move, I'm going to show you the direction you should go. All you gotta do is follow. All you gotta do is move. And when you begin to move, watch my hands show up. When you begin to move, watch my presence begin to leave. When you begin to move, watch how things open up for you. There's a blessing on the other side of obedience. Have you ever noticed throughout scripture? One particular scripture comes to mind is when God says, Let's go to the other side. CCC, because he understands that where you're at is not where you're meant to be. Ah, I don't know who that's for, but God is saying, where you're at currently is not where you're meant to be. You need to get to the other side. And and when you're ready to go to the other side, just know that the enemy is going to try to stop you. The enemy is going to try to deceive you and to manipulate you and to deter you from moving over to the other side. Why? Because he understands that if you ever get to the other side, if you ever cross over to the other side, if you ever begin to walk out what God has planned in your life, he's in trouble. If you ever begin to walk out what God plants in your life, you're going to put his demons to flight. If you ever begin to walk out what God has planned in your life, you're going to break walls down. If you ever begin to walk out what God has in your life, you're going to shatter his kingdom. I don't know who I'm preaching to, but God said, you are a conqueror. Don't settle for less. I didn't make you to settle, I made you to be great. I didn't make you to settle here. I made you to move and be great. Stop settling for less when God made you your capacity to handle more. Stop settling for less when God said, I created you to be who I want you to be. Ah, ladies and gentlemen, who God is saying that sometimes the calling or the voice of God will sound strange in the instructions. The voice of God will sound strange when it comes out because you're not used to Him telling you to go when you don't know you're going. God is saying to someone today, no matter how strange the instructions may sound, no matter how strange the instructions may be. If you're walking in alignment with me, I got you covered. If you're walking in alignment with me, I got you forward, I got your front covered, I got your back covered, I got your sides covered, and if you continue walking with me, you'll reach where I need you to be. Oh, God, I thank you. He says, Stop letting fear grip you. Fear has gotten nobody nowhere. It is when you learn to conquer the fear of what you see that you begin to see the hand of God move. Woo! Ah, thank you. God said to the word, I have not, I, uh, God has given us the, God has not given us the spirit of fear, but a power, love, and of a sound mind. God then placed that spirit of fear on you. He gave you a spirit of of power and of a sound mind. We have the ability to conquer fear. If God said it, don't be fearful when God starts leading you to. This is just an introduction, and I'm already excited about what God is going to say because I understand when God tells you to move, and you become fearful to move. I'm a prime example of doing what God wants you to do. God told us to move from New York almost seven years ago. And I was fearful to move. Because I was coming into an unfamiliar place. I was comfortable in New York City. I knew everyone in New York City. I was born and raised in New York City, but God said, move. And I'll tell you how true this is. For six months, I did not move. My wife was ready to go. She was ready out of New York six months before I decided to take the family. And then I heard the voice of God and says, I called you to move. And I tell you this, because I heard the voice of God telling me, and I tell you how it was confirmed. Whoo! I set a meeting with my bishop, and I told them what God has placed in my spirit. And being the man of God, that he's my shepherd. Well, God, I thank you. I told you in one second. And he was my shepherd. Ladies and gentlemen, when God begins to move in your life, and you don't understand the move of God in your life, go to your pastor, go to your bishop. Because anything that God placed in you, he already has confirmed it with the man that's in charge of watching over your soul. Ah, he says, What took you so long? I knew God called you to move already. So, ladies and gentlemen, when you know that you're hearing the voice of God, don't delay. When you know you're hearing the voice of God, move. We moved a month later. Best thing that ever happened to me. Personal testimony, I just wanted to share. When God speaks to your heart, and you know that God is speaking to your heart, don't let nothing deter you from what God has spoken about you. Don't let deception stop you from moving. Don't let a lie stop you from moving. Don't let the enemy from hell stop you from moving. As I bring this message of the introduction to the posture of obedience to a close, I want to leave you with this simple truth. Powerful truths. We don't obey God because we have to. We obey God because we love Him. We obey God out of a relationship that is built on trust, reverence, and deep gratitude for His grace towards us. True obedience flows from the heart that honors, that longs to be honored by God. Knowing His commandments aren't chains that bind us, but a pathway to lead us to a fullness of life he designed. When we walk in a posture of obedience, we experience nearness, we experience his protection, and we experience his blessings and they overtake us. So today, let us choose to follow God wholeheartedly, not out of fear or duty, but out of genuine love for the one who first loved us and gave everything for us. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, I want to say thank you. Thank you for this opportunity we had to talk about obedience and the posture that we should stand when it comes to obeying your word and obeying the call that you have placed in us. Now, God, as we walk out over the next couple of weeks, this theme, the posture of obedience. Speak to us, show us, guide us, that we might become the disciples that you have called us to be. And God, as these posture, this posture theme that you have us on all over all. Let it continue to shape us, let it continue to develop our character, let it continue to develop our mindset. So when anything comes about us, God, or at us to attack us, we'll always be standing in the right posture to ward off the attack of the enemy. Thank you for doing it, God. And we'll be so mindful to give you honor, glory, and praise. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen and amen.