The Benefits of Obeying His Word

The Chain of Sin Broken!

Romans 6:17

"But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you." 

Here is a very important truth and it is a truth which is critical in breaking the inherited curse of sin that we are all subject to; obeying the word of truth (Gods Word) causes the curse which compels us to sin to be broken and releases the blessings of God in its place. We have the great teaching in Deuteronomy 28 which lists all the blessings of God that come upon those who are obedient and Chapter 29 which lists the curses of disobedience (all of us fit in one or the other category). As we walk with God and we seek to have the chains of sin broken it behooves us to keep His commandments, for it is in striving to keep His commandments that the chains are broken. The blessings come almost automatically upon us when we obey the word of God, the commandments of God. We also have Peter who speaks of the cleansing power of obeying the truth (again, His Word): 1Peter 1:22 "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit..." 

We must, with all effort, cry out as David cried out: Psalm 119:1-5 "1 ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. 4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!"

"O' that my ways were directed to keep thy Word that sin could be broken in me!"