· QUOTE: Discipleship brings God’s blessing-Disobedience brings God’s discipline
HUMOR-- One day a police officer stopped a driver. The police officer said, “Since you were wearing your seat belt, you win $5000, what are you going to do with the money?”
The man said, “I’m going to get me a driver’s license.”
The lady next to him said, “Don’t listen to him officer, he always talks crazy when he’s drunk!”
The loud talking woke the guy in the back seat. When he saw the police he said, “I knew we wouldn’t get far with this stolen car!”
Then the police heard a voice from the trunk and in Spanish, the voice said, “Are we over the border yet?”
· Are there any LAWS that you have trouble keeping? No respecting? Rebellious?
-What about this seat belt business? I used to have a personal problem with the seat belt law...I used to try to "get by" on short trips without it.
Now that I think about it, it does not take much time to reach down and fasten the seat belt! Perhaps, it was my upbringing coming out, having a dislike for governmental control over my life?
Do you gladly wear yours? Some people just don’t want to be bothered even though the law requires us to buckle up. “Click it or ticket.”
ILL.- According to the Associated Press, a New Zealander named Ivan Segedin took it to an extreme. The police ticketed him 32 times over five years for failing to use his seat belt. Even though this was costing him big money, Segedin refused to buckle up. Finally, instead of obeying the law, the man decided to rely on deception. He made a fake seat belt that would hang over his shoulder and make it appear that he was wearing a seat belt when he was not.
His trick worked for a while. Then, he had a head-on collision. He was thrown forward onto the steering wheel and killed.
That man’s disobedience caused his death, but disobedience to God can cause even more trouble and a worse death!
Romans 8:7 “The sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.”
· The person who lives in sin and for sin does not and will not submit to God and will eventually pay the penalty for that lack of submission.
-What about Christian people? Must we submit to God in obedience? WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
