Essay About Obedience

For instance, He tells the rich young ruler, "But if you want to enter into life [eternal life], keep the commandments" (Matthew ). However, this instance is not the only time He says such a thing.

For instance, He tells the rich young ruler, "But if you want to enter into life [eternal life], keep the commandments" (Matthew ). However, this instance is not the only time He says such a thing.In Luke , He tells a crowd gathered to hear Him, "Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!

One of the apostle Paul's comments in Romans 5 hints broadly at this: "Much more, having been reconciled [to the Father], we shall be saved by His life" (verse 10).

Christ's death does not save us, but His resurrection to eternal life does!

(John -24) Finally, in John , Jesus reveals that we have to be just as diligent in obeying Him as He was in obeying His Father in heaven: "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love." From the mouth of our Savior Himself, obedience is plainly a very New Testament, very Christian, teaching.

In this handful of statements, He was quite pointed about what we must obey: the commandments, the word of God, His words (which are the Father's words), and His and His Father's commandments. We should obey His teaching if we want to have eternal life, if we want to demonstrate our love for Christ, if we want to be blessed, if we want God and Christ to make their home with us by the Holy Spirit, and if we want to have and abide in the love of the Father and the Son. It is worth looking at these from the negative side, just to see how disastrous it is to refuse to obey God and His Word.

Obedience, then, becomes a tool that we use in conjunction with Christ to grow in righteousness and prepare for the Kingdom of God. Ritenbaugh The Bereans "received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so" (Acts -11).

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The lure of "easy grace" has filled the pews of many a church with people eager for life after death but unwilling to change their present lives by living according to the teachings of God's Word.

It is true that the word "obey" is found just a few times in the gospels and never in a command such as "obey the law" or "obey God's commandments." But that does not mean that Jesus does not command us to obey—He just uses other words.

Paul writes in Hebrews 5:9, "Having been perfected, [Christ] became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him." Keeping God's commandments—His instructions—will guide us in learning what God requires of us and in impressing His character image upon us.

God's laws do not save us, but they provide a pattern of behavior that pleases Him because such behavior is a reflection of His own.