Summary: What God did for People through Jesus 5<br> What God did for People through Jesus 5 – <a href="https://www.httpsbible.com/noa/B59C001.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">James 1:19-27</a> This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the<br> righteousness of God. Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless. Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.<br> What God did for People through Jesus 5 – Obeying out of Love<br> There was a time when some of us said, “If we don’t do what Ma said, we will get a beatin’ for sure!” There was a time when some of us said, “If my parents ever find out I did this, I will be grounded for life!” There was a time when some of us said, “When my parents hear about this, they will lock me in my room and throw the key away!” That is the forced obedience of the immature. The immature do not obey because they want to obey, but because they are terrified of the consequences of not obeying.<br> Hopefully, there has come a time in your life that you obey because a love relationship exists. Allow me to give you an example. If you have a good marriage, it is a marriage with numerous incidents of obedience. In a good marriage, there is lots of obedience. Every day the husband and the wife in that good marriage perform acts of obedience out of love and respect, not because they are terrified of a belt, a willow switch, being grounded, or being locked in a room. In a good marriage, the husband and the wife frequently do things they may never talk about simply because the thing shows the appreciation of affection for the spouse. Then in that marriage there are moments of conscious sacrifice made in the loyalty of affection. Such acts have nothing to do with punishment, but everything to do with love .<br> <br> * Perhaps the greatest single act of obedience from a human perspective was given by Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane<br> <br> * Jesus had a relationship with the Father that you and I will never have with the Father.<br> <br> * He had a prayer life that makes any of ours look anemic.<br> * His ministry was filled with personal surrender to the Father.<br> * Never once did he defy his Father’s instructions or will.<br> * Three times he asked the Father to let “this cup” pass from him.<br> <br> * For multiple reasons, he did not wish to die then, in those circumstances, in that way.<br> * May I suggest two of the reasons.<br> <br> * He did not want the pain.<br> * He did not want the responsibility [for thousands of years God worked toward that moment–God’s success hinge on Jesus’ reaction under severe stress and pain].<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> * Yet, though Jesus did not want the agony before him, he surrendered.<br> <br> * Paraphrased, “If Your objective can be achieved in any other way, let’s go the other way.”<br> * “However,
