the blessing of obedience

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THE BLESSING OF OBEDIENCE “All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the LORD your God: - Deuteronomy 28:2 YOU’LL NEVER EXPERIENCE THE FULL BLESSING OF OBEDIENCE IF YOU ONLY OBEY WHEN THERE’S A __________ OF YOUR __________ ________ “If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. “But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” - Daniel 3:17-18  Sometimes the initial outcome of obedience _______ _____ Example: - ___________ Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. - Philippians 2:8 YOU’LL NEVER EXPERIENCE THE FULL BLESSING OF OBEDIENCE IF YOU ONLY OBEY WHEN IT’S _________________ When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water 5 and let down your nets for a catch.” Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down 6 the nets.” When they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to break; - Luke 5:4-6 YOU’LL NEVER EXPERIENCE THE FULL BLESSING OF OBEDIENCE IF YOU ONLY OBEY WHEN OBEDIENCE _________ _________ Now Jericho was tightly shut because of the sons of Israel; no one went out and 2 no one came in. The LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your 3 hand, with its king and the valiant warriors. “You shall march around the city, 4 all the men of war circling the city once. You shall do so for six days. “Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests 5 shall blow the trumpets. “It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people will go up every man straight ahead.” - Joshua 6:1-5