More Than Medicine
More Than Medicine
DWDP - Gen 6:22 Noah's Faith and Obedience
Faith that never moves is just talk. We open Genesis 6:22 and watch Noah turn belief into lumber, nails, and a century of resolve, then follow Hebrews 11 to see why obedience is the natural language of trust. From there, Abraham’s journeys and knife-edge obedience force an honest question: what good is faith that never risks, reaches, or builds?
Together we map a simple, durable path for living love out loud. We start with what Jesus loved. He treasured the Word, answering temptation with Scripture, so we lay out a practical plan to read through the Bible in a year and a weekly rhythm for memorizing and reviewing verses until they live in your heart. We move to prayer the way Luke tells it—Jesus slipping away to quiet places—and share how to carve out daily solitude that turns worry into worship and aligns your will with the Father’s.
Love for Jesus also shows up in love for His people and for the lost. We talk frankly about belonging to a local church, serving with your gifts, and dropping the lone-ranger mindset. Then we head to a Samaritan well and the streets of Pentecost, where hearts full of the Spirit can’t keep quiet about grace. If you’ve wondered how to turn belief into a life that holds steady under scorn, pressure, and change, this conversation offers a clear framework: read, pray, belong, and share.
Listen for practical steps, honest questions, and a steady refrain: trust and obey. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs courage, and leave a quick review so more people can find it. What’s the first action your faith will take this week?
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Welcome to More Than Medic, where Jesus is more than enough for the ills that plague our culture and our country. Hosted by author and physician, Dr. Robert Jackson.
SPEAKER_00:Papa, can you tell me a story? Do you really want me to tell you a story? Well, you go get your brother and your sisters, and I will tell you a story. Welcome to Devotions with Dr. Papa. Gather round, grab your Bibles, and let's look into the written word, which reveals to us the living word, who is our Lord Jesus Christ. Today we're at Genesis chapter six and verse twenty two. Thus Noah did according to all that God had commanded him, so he did. This is the last verse in chapter six. We see faith and obedience mingled together in Noah's life. That's why he is listed in Hebrews chapter eleven and verse seven. Let me read that verse to you in Hebrews chapter eleven, verse seven when God has the role called of the faithful. Hebrews eleven verse seven. By faith, Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. Did you notice that that one verse began and ended with faith? By faith and Noah being warned by God, and then it ended of the righteousness which is according to faith. You see, Noah was a man of faith, and he's recorded in the roll call of the faithful. But here we are in the last verse of chapter six, and this man of faith is recorded as being what? Obedient. Thus Noah did according to all that God had commanded him, so he did. This man of faith is recorded here as a man of obedience. You see, faith and obedience mingled together in Noah's life. That's why he's listed there in Hebrews in the role called of the faithful. You see, Noah is a man of faith and obedience. His faith resulted in a hundred and twenty years of obedience, in building a monstrous boat, when as yet there had been no such thing as rain or floods. You can imagine the scorn and ridicule from the unbelieving crowds. In the book of James, the author says You show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works. Noah demonstrated his faith by his work in building the ark over a hundred and twenty years, a century plus, despite the ridicule and the scorn, and no rainfall, and not even a drizzle. Many of us grew up in church singing a hymn went like this trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey. You remember that hymn. You remember singing it in your childhood days. You understood that faith and obedience are two sides of the same coin. These two go together like soup and sandwich, like peanut butter and jelly, like capitalism and prosperity, like communism and corruption, like America and freedom. Sorry, I got a little carried away with that one, but you catch my drift. Faith and obedience operate together. Think about Abraham. We'll meet him much later in the book of Genesis. Abraham is known as a man of great faith. But his faith is demonstrated by what? Well, by obedience. Obedience how? Obedience in following God's call to leave Haran and move to a country that God promised to give to him and his descendants at a time when he had no descendants. And then when God gave him Isaac, the son of promise, a descendant in his and Sarah's old age, in a bizarre twist, God told him to go and worship him on a mountain, and oh by the way, I want you to sacrifice the boy Isaac. And guess what? Abraham obeyed. And every time I read that story, even though I already know how the story ends, my heart beats fast and my palms get sweaty until the angel of the Lord says, Abraham, Abraham, do not stretch out your hand against the lad. Do nothing to him, for now I know that you are yet you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son from me? Do you see the faith and the obedience commingled in Abraham's life? What good is one without the other? What good was Noah's faith if he hadn't built the ark? What good was Abraham's faith if he hadn't moved from Haran to the promised land? What good was David's faith if he hadn't run towards Goliath and thrown the stone that killed the giant? Let me ask you, what good is your faith and mine if it's all talk talk and no action? Faith and love in action is the sum of the Christian life. Jesus said if you love me, you will obey me. If you love Jesus, I promise you you will love the things that Jesus loved. Now, let me ask you, what did Jesus love? Well it's obvious that Jesus loved the Word. Now the Word that he had was the Old Testament. Jesus is the living word. Now when Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, what did he do? Well you know he quoted Old Testament scripture and he gave it to Satan right in his face. And obviously Jesus valued the Word, the Old Testament scripture enough to read it and to memorize it. And I submit to you very respectfully that you and I should too. We should love the same things that Jesus loved. And if he loved the word, you and I should love the scripture enough to read it and to memorize it, to study it. So here's my challenge to you, dear listeners. I'm gonna challenge you to read the scriptures every day. Three chapters a day and five on Sunday is what it takes to read the Bible through exactly in one year. Now I've done that since I was nineteen years of age. So that means I've I've read my Bible through 44 times since, well, really more than that. Hmm, let's see, forty forty-six or seven times since I was nineteen years of age. And that means I know the Bible stories, I know the Bible characters, I know Bible principles just by virtue of reading it through over and over. But I'm also challenging you to memorize a couple of verses of scripture every week so that you can get it in your heart, in your mind. And then review, review, review. Review the scripture that you memorize until you get it down in your heart. So that you can do exactly what Jesus did when you're tempted. You can give the scriptures right back to Satan so that you can withstand temptation. Love the word the same way that Jesus did. Now the other thing I think that Jesus obviously loved was prayer. He loved to fellowship with his Father. How do I know? Well, just read the book of Luke. Eleven different times in the book of Luke, there's a reference to where Jesus went off to a solitary place to pray and fellowship with his heavenly father. Now listen, if Jesus needed to get off in a quiet place and pray, how much more do you and I need to do the same thing? So here's the challenge. You and I daily need to find a quiet place to seek the face of the Heavenly Father. Now listen, I love to talk to Miss Carlotta. In fact, I just like to listen to her prattle. I just like to sit and listen to her talk. Why? Because she's the love of my life. And you and I should love to talk to our Heavenly Father. Why? Because we love Him. We value and appreciate what He's done for us and who He is. And the challenge is for us to find the time to be alone, just like Jesus did with our Heavenly Father. And if Jesus loved to pray, and if I love Jesus, then I want to love to do the things that Jesus did. Also, Jesus loved his disciples. In John 13, Jesus commanded his disciples to love one another, just as he had loved them. And by extension, you and I should love one another. In like manner, we should love the church. In fact, in Ephesians 5, the Bible tells us that Jesus loved the church and gave himself up for her. And my love in action would of necessity involve my serious commitment to a local body of believers, to love them and to serve them. And neglecting participation in a local church is not really an option for someone who claims to love Jesus. So here's the challenge, dear listener. There's no such thing as a maverick Christian, a loner Christian. We must be involved in the life of a local body of believers. If I say that I love Jesus, then I need to involve myself in the ministry of a local body of believers. And then the last thing I want to share with you is this I'm convinced that Jesus loved to share the good news of the kingdom of God. How do I know? Well, he stopped at the at the well and he talked at the woman of the well. He talked with her about her spiritual life, and then he spent two days in that Samaritan village sharing with them the good news of the kingdom of God. And that's not the only instance where he did such a thing. And what happened with his disciples on the day of Pentecost when they were filled with the Holy Ghost? Well, they immediately begin to share the good news of the gospel. And I'm convinced that when believers are full of the Holy Spirit, they're compelled. They get a bad case and they can't help it. They just can't help talking about Jesus and sharing with people what Jesus has done in their life. And I'm just convinced that when you and I love Jesus, and when we're filled with Holy Spirit, that we we're just compelled to talk to other people about Jesus and about how much he loves us and how much we love him. So what good is it? What good is faith without obedience? And what good is faith in obedience without action? Go back to our our verse of scripture we started off with. Thus Noah did according to all that God had commanded him, so he did. We've already established that Noah was a man of faith, great faith. I mean he built a giant monstrous boat by faith. No rain, no floods, despite ridicule and scorn by unbelieving crowds, by faith he built the ark. And then the Bible validates him and calls him, says that he was an obedient man, and that he did according to all that God had commanded him to do. He was a man of faith, a man of obedience, a man of action. Noah was a man of faith and obedience. Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. You remember that song from your childhood, and I hope that it's drilled deep into your heart like it's drilled deep into my heart, to trust and obey. But there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. Faith and obedience, they go together. They're inseparable. And I hope that you understand that having faith is a good thing, but obedience is the other side of that coin. And if you and I say that we love Jesus, we also must be obedient Christians. You're listening to devotions with Dr. Papa. I hope you understand that Jesus loves you and your doctor loves you. We'll be back again next week, and until then, may the Lord bless you real good.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you for listening to this edition of More Than Medicine. For more information about the Jackson Family Ministry or to schedule a speaking engagement, go to their Facebook page, Instagram, or web page at Jackson Family Ministry.com. Also, don't forget to check out the
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