OBEDIENCE. part - 1
Many still debating what means FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE. And as always, many explanation given only dancing around the issue but never pinpoint to the core context and true meaning of these special and great qualities.
1Corinthians 13.13
13."And now FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE, abide these three and the greatest of these is LOVE."
While Bible perfectly explains their true nature and their magnitude of importance in human soul, still, most of the Christians prefer other explanations which are mostly based on the doctrines, dogmas, and traditions of the church.
But these essential ingredients of LOVE are not fully complete yet, it lacks another essential quality which majority of the Christian prefer to ignore - the OBEDIENCE.
To simplify the matter, we can assume that LOVE contains everything, Faith, Hope, Mercy, Obedience, and other vital and fundamental qualities that are necessary to be qualify and reaching high spiritual perfection before GOD, as humanly possible.
While most of the Christian claim that they have Faith, they very rarely, hardly ever, talk about Hope and Love.
The Hope for many Christians does not represent assurance of "salvation" with which church stuffed the heads of their parishioners.
The Love, in the view of the church, should not go beyond fake smiles, hands shakes, hugs, and kisses.
And of course OBEDIENCE practically never mentioned inside the walls of the church, and this is not surprising at all. OBEDIENCE has direct relation to the Commandments, Statutes, Ordinances, and Commandments of the Lord, and because of it, the clergy, as well as worshipers, get a fright of it just like of COVID-19.
And because many Christians considered themselves already "saved" and "reserved" for themselves already a dwelling in Heaven, where is nothing left to Obey, because "salvation" is already granted, assured, and guaranteed.
But OBEDIENCE is essential and vital part of ingredients of LOVE, because without OBEDIENCE to GOD and His Statutes, His Commandments, and His Laws, means His Words, it is naturally impossible to have FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE as a part of personality, because all these three qualities express themselves in OBEDIENCE to GOD, and OBEDIENCE to GOD expresses itself in those three qualities. No matter how you turn it, the result always will be the same.
Genesis 22.18
18."and by your Offspring (Genesis 22.18, 26.4) (Acts 3.25) (Galatians 3.16) shall of the nations of the Earth gain blessing for themselves (Genesis 12.3, 22.18, 26.4, 28.14) (Acts 2.39, 3.25) (Galatians 3.8), because you have OBEYED My voice."
Genesis 26.5
5."because Abraham OBEYED My voice and kept My Commandments, My Statues, and My Laws."
Deuteronomy 28.1-2
1."If you will only OBEY the Lord your GOD by diligently observing all His Commandments that I am commanding you, the Lord your GOD will set you high above all the nations of the Earth,
2.all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you OBEY the Lord your GOD."
Ecclesiastes 8.5
5."Whoever OBYES a command, will meet no harm, and the wise mind will know the time and way."
Matthew 7.21
21."Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only the one WHO DOES THE WILL of My Father in Heaven."
Mark 3.35
35."WHOEVER DOES THE WILL of GOD is My brother and sister and mother.”
Luke 11.27-28
28.But He said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the Word of GOD and OBEY it!”
Acts 5.29.32
29.But Peter and the Apostles answered, “We must OBEY GOD rather than any human authority. (Isaiah 29.13) (Matthew 15.9) (Mark 7.6-9.13) (Acts 4.19, 5.29) (Colossians 2.20-22) (Titus 1.14)
32.And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit Whom GOD has given to those who OBEY Him."
1John 3.22.24
22.and we receive from Him whatever we ask, because we OBEY His Commandments and do what pleases Him.
24.All who OBEY His Commandments abide in Him and He abides in them. And by this we know that He abides in us by the Spirit that He has given us. (John 10.30, 17.11.22)
(These two passages above definitely prove that not for nothing GOD gives His Holy Spirit to His true worshipers.)
Many still debating what means FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE. And as always, many explanation given only dancing around the issue but never pinpoint to the core context and true meaning of these special and great qualities.
1Corinthians 13.13
13."And now FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE, abide these three and the greatest of these is LOVE."
While Bible perfectly explains their true nature and their magnitude of importance in human soul, still, most of the Christians prefer other explanations which are mostly based on the doctrines, dogmas, and traditions of the church.
But these essential ingredients of LOVE are not fully complete yet, it lacks another essential quality which majority of the Christian prefer to ignore - the OBEDIENCE.
To simplify the matter, we can assume that LOVE contains everything, Faith, Hope, Mercy, Obedience, and other vital and fundamental qualities that are necessary to be qualify and reaching high spiritual perfection before GOD, as humanly possible.
While most of the Christian claim that they have Faith, they very rarely, hardly ever, talk about Hope and Love.
The Hope for many Christians does not represent assurance of "salvation" with which church stuffed the heads of their parishioners.
The Love, in the view of the church, should not go beyond fake smiles, hands shakes, hugs, and kisses.
And of course OBEDIENCE practically never mentioned inside the walls of the church, and this is not surprising at all. OBEDIENCE has direct relation to the Commandments, Statutes, Ordinances, and Commandments of the Lord, and because of it, the clergy, as well as worshipers, get a fright of it just like of COVID-19.
And because many Christians considered themselves already "saved" and "reserved" for themselves already a dwelling in Heaven, where is nothing left to Obey, because "salvation" is already granted, assured, and guaranteed.
But OBEDIENCE is essential and vital part of ingredients of LOVE, because without OBEDIENCE to GOD and His Statutes, His Commandments, and His Laws, means His Words, it is naturally impossible to have FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE as a part of personality, because all these three qualities express themselves in OBEDIENCE to GOD, and OBEDIENCE to GOD expresses itself in those three qualities. No matter how you turn it, the result always will be the same.
Genesis 22.18
18."and by your Offspring (Genesis 22.18, 26.4) (Acts 3.25) (Galatians 3.16) shall of the nations of the Earth gain blessing for themselves (Genesis 12.3, 22.18, 26.4, 28.14) (Acts 2.39, 3.25) (Galatians 3.8), because you have OBEYED My voice."
Genesis 26.5
5."because Abraham OBEYED My voice and kept My Commandments, My Statues, and My Laws."
Deuteronomy 28.1-2
1."If you will only OBEY the Lord your GOD by diligently observing all His Commandments that I am commanding you, the Lord your GOD will set you high above all the nations of the Earth,
2.all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you OBEY the Lord your GOD."
Ecclesiastes 8.5
5."Whoever OBYES a command, will meet no harm, and the wise mind will know the time and way."
Matthew 7.21
21."Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only the one WHO DOES THE WILL of My Father in Heaven."
Mark 3.35
35."WHOEVER DOES THE WILL of GOD is My brother and sister and mother.”
Luke 11.27-28
28.But He said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the Word of GOD and OBEY it!”
Acts 5.29.32
29.But Peter and the Apostles answered, “We must OBEY GOD rather than any human authority. (Isaiah 29.13) (Matthew 15.9) (Mark 7.6-9.13) (Acts 4.19, 5.29) (Colossians 2.20-22) (Titus 1.14)
32.And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit Whom GOD has given to those who OBEY Him."
1John 3.22.24
22.and we receive from Him whatever we ask, because we OBEY His Commandments and do what pleases Him.
24.All who OBEY His Commandments abide in Him and He abides in them. And by this we know that He abides in us by the Spirit that He has given us. (John 10.30, 17.11.22)
(These two passages above definitely prove that not for nothing GOD gives His Holy Spirit to His true worshipers.)
