439. What Is Meant by "Devotedness to God"?<\/p>\n
We should be devoted to God because of his mercies (Rom_12:1), of his goodness (1Sa_12:24) and because of the call with which he invites us to him. The death of Christ and our redemption should be compelling forces. Our devotedness should be unreserved (Mar_6:24), abounding (1Th_4:1), persevering (Luk_1:74-75; Luk_9:62), and in life and death (Rom_14:8). It should be with our whole being, thus, with our spirit (1Co_6:20), with our bodies (Rom_12:1; I Cor. 630), with our members (Rom_6:12-13), and with our substance (Ex. 2239; Pro_3:9). This devotedness we should show by loving God (Deu_6:5), serving him (1Sa_12:24; Rom_12:11), walking worthy of him (1Th_2:12), doing all to his glory (1Co_10:31); bearing the cross (Mar_8:34), by self-denial (Mar_8:34), and by giving up all for Christ (Mat_19:21, Mat_19:28-29).<\/p>\n
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439. What Is Meant by "Devotedness to God"? We should be devoted to God because of his mercies (Rom_12:1), of his goodness (1Sa_12:24) and because of the call with which he invites us to him. The death of Christ and our redemption should be compelling forces. Our devotedness should be unreserved (Mar_6:24), abounding (1Th_4:1), persevering … Continue reading “439 – What Is Meant by "Devotedness to God"?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}