1st Samuel 15:10-28 (v. 22) “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.”

(v. 24) “I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.” (“It was the people’s fault.”)

Jeremiah 7:21-28 “This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God. . . .”

11:1-10 “Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart. . . .”

12:17 “But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the Lord.” (America!)

Genesis 2:16-17 “And the Lord God commanded the man . . . But of the tree . . . thou shalt not eat of it. . . .”

3:4-12 “The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave of the tree. . . .” (“It was your fault.”)

% 19:15-21, 30 “And while he lingered” / “Oh, not so, my Lord” (Typical, very typical!)

% v. 26 “But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” (See v. 17)

(Luke 9:62 “No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”)

% Exodus 3:7 — 4:14 (4:1) “And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not . . . hearken. . . .” (See 3:18)

% 16:10-28 “. . . there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.”

% Numbers 20:7-11, 23-24 “And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice. . . .”

% 22:1-34 “And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people. . . .”

% Judges 2:1-3 “And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land . . . ye have not obeyed my voice. . . .”

% 3:1-7 “. . . And they took their daughters to be their wives . . . and served their gods.”

% 1st Kings 11:1-10 “For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom. . . .”

% Jonah 1:1-3,17; 2:1,10; 3:1-3 “But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. . . .”

% Matthew 9:27-31 “See that no man know it. But they . . . spread abroad his fame in all that country.”

% Mark 1:40-45 “See thou say nothing to any man. . . . But he . . . began to publish it much. . . .”

% Acts 21:1-15 “. . . Paul . . . should not go up to Jerusalem. . . . And after those days we . . . went up to Jerusalem.”

Matthew 7:21-27 “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. . . .”

Luke 6:46 “And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”

21:28-31 “But what think ye? A certain man had two sons . . . Whether of them twain did the will of his father?”

Hebrews 5:9 “And being made perfect, [Jesus] became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. . . .”

Romans 15:18 “. . . to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed. . . .”

Ephesians 5:6-12 “Let no man deceive you . . . the wrath of God [cometh] upon the children of disobedience.”

2nd Thessalonians 1:8 “. . . In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that . . . obey not the gospel. . . .”

3:14 “And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him. . . .”

Acts 5:24-29 “Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”

Romans 6:14-23 “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves . . . to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey. . . .”

“It’s all faith!”

Romans 16:26 “. . . to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known . . . for the obedience of faith. . . .”

(James 2 “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”)

“It’s all love!”

Ezekiel 33:31 “. . . they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.”

“It’s all the Holy Ghost!”

Acts 5:32 “And we are his witnesses . . . and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.”

“But we’re his family!”

Luke 8:21 “My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.”

“Obedience to what exactly?

1) commandments

Deuteronomy 12:26-28 “Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: A blessing, if ye obey the commandments . . . And a curse, if ye will not obey. . . .”

Matthew 15:7-9 “Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”

2) the word

James 1:22-25 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”

1st Corinthians 4:6 “. . . learn in us not to think of men above that which is written. . . .”

Revelation 1:3 “Blessed is he that . . . keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”

3) the truth (Only in Jesus Christ can you “obey the truth.”)

Romans 2:7-8 “But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth . . . indignation and wrath. . . .”

4) the gospel

1st Peter 4:17 “. . . what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?”

2nd Thessalonians 1:7-10 “. . . Jesus shall be revealed . . . taking vengeance on them . . . that obey not the gospel. . . .”

5) parents

Colossians 3:20 “Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”

Ephesians 6:1 “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”

6) elders

Hebrews 13:7,17 “Obey them that have the rule over you . . . for they watch for your souls. . . .”