Obeying God as His Children

Trust in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. But after you have settled your salvation, then go on to serve Christ by obeying God the Father. Once you are born into God’s family by trusting in Jesus alone for salvation; you are now God’s son or daughter. 

“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” – Galatians 3:26

God will deal with you as one of His children, so it will be wise for you to strive to live a righteous life. 

If we obey our Heavenly Father after being saved, we will have joy in our life. Yielding to the Holy Spirit of God will produce righteous acts.

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” - Galatians 5:22-23

“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” – Romans 6:16

“Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.” - Romans 6:13 & 19

If we disobey our Heavenly Father, He will discipline (chasten) us, but our punishment will never be Hell. God deals with us as a Father deals with his children.

“But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.” – 1 Corinthians 11:32

“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?” – Hebrews 12:5-7

“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” – Hebrews 12:11