Obedience Or The Wrath Of God

John the Baptist was sent to prepare the way for Jesus the Messiah. Concerning himself, John said that his own importance must decrease and that Jesus' importance must increase. This goes for every true believer. Through the new birth and the gift of the Holy Spirit, we are to be putting our old nature to death by rejecting its desires. We should be living for Jesus the Messiah, overjoyed and listening to him. To know him is to love him.

We are born with a sinful nature and dead to God. As soon as were able we sin and the wrath of God abides on us. Unless we repent and surrender our lives to Jesus who gives the new birth, the wrath of God abides on us and we will never see true life.

We must be born from above. Then we should be in his written word, talking to him throughout the day. We must obey him, so we must not look to the ear tickling preachers of today, but to the written word of God.

John 3 ISV
27John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven. 

• 28You yourselves are myt witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah,u but I have been sent ahead of him.’ 29It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom’s friend, who merelyv stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That’s why this joy of mine is now complete. 30He must become more important, but I must become less important.”

31The one who comes from above is superior to everything. The one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things.w 

The one who comes from heaven is superior to everything. 

• 32He testifies about what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony. 
• 33The person who has accepted his testimony has acknowledged that God is truthful.x 
• 34The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because Gody does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.z 
• 35The Father loves the Son and has put everything in his hands. 
• 36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, 
• but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.