I just heard one of the best sermons I've ever heard by Jentezen Franklin on TBN. My two favorite shows on TBN are Marriage Today at noon and Jentezen Franklin's sermons. I also really like listening to Steven Furtick's sermons.
Tonight Pastor Franklin was talking about how being under authority ensures our protection. When we stay under God's authority specifically we will have the best life possible. When we submit to our boss' authority we will keep our job. When we as wives submit to our husband's authority, we are more likely to keep our marriage intact. When we submit to our parents' authority, the Bible says that we will have a longer life.
As long as children obey their parents, and don't touch a hot stove for example, they will have a good life. For the most part, parents know best how to keep their children safe and what they need to do and not do. It is the same way with us and God. God knows best what we should and should not do. Thus the 10 Commandments and the teachings of Jesus and the verses by Paul of instruction for our lives. If we follow the instructions in the Bible, we will have the best life possible.
When we are willing to submit to God's authority, we are rewarded with life and peace. "The law of the spirit is life and peace," Romans says. And "the law of sin leads to death." When we go our own way and sin, it leads to death. "There is a way that seems right to a man but in the end it leads to death." But Jesus said that he came to bring us LIFE and life abundantly. We can only have that life in so much as we are willing to submit to God and God's wisdom. Amen.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." Another way to say that is, the willingness to submit to God is the beginning of wisdom. Amen.
May God bless you! :)
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