Why Should I?: Be Obedient - True Patriot Ministries

I believe this to be a question that every believer has asked at least once in life.

For non-believers, I want to enlighten your ignorance and for the rebellious I want to leave you no excuse.

Romans 2:12-16 MEV

12 As many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law, 13 for the hearers of the law are not justified before God, but the doers of the law will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, not having the law, are a law unto themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, while their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them, 16 in the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:19 MEV

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced, and all the world may become accountable to God.

Whether we admit to the law or ignore the law, we will still be judged by the law.

Romans 2:5-11 MEV

5 But because of your hardness and impenitent heart, you are storing up treasures of wrath against yourself on the day of wrath when the righteous judgment of God will be revealed, 6 and He “will render to every man according to his deeds.” 7 To those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality will be eternal life. 8 But to those who are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation, and wrath, 9 will be tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and then to the Gentile. 10 But glory, honor, and peace will be to every man who does good work—to the Jew first, and then to the Gentile, 11 for there is no partiality with God.

John 1:17 MEV

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Matthew 5:17 MEV

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish, but to fulfill.

Salvation

Repentance: mental decision to turn around, to do an about face, to turn back to God.
Call on the name of the Lord
Baptisms

Romans 10:8-13 MEV

8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.” This is the word of faith that we preach: 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved, 10 for with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be ashamed.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is generous toward all who call upon Him. 13 For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Grace and forgiveness
- Ephesians 1:7 KJV In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Faith, Hope, and Love
- 1 Corinthians 13:13 MEV So now abide faith, hope, and love, these three. But the greatest of these is love.
- Romans 5:5 MEV And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Relationship
- Romans 5:8-11 MEV 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 How much more then, being now justified by His blood, shall we be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, how much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by His life. 11 Furthermore, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Intimate Fellowship
- 1 Corinthians 6:17 KJV But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
- Matthew 19:6 MEV

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”

Intimate Fellowship

1 John 4:16 MEV And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:19 MEV We love Him because He first loved us.
1 John 4:20 MEV If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Matthew 22:37-40 MEV 37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”