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Christ's active obedience refers to His life of perfect conformity to every demand of God's holy law, such that He lived not only a sinless life, but also rendered unto God a life of flawless love, service, and devotion. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice both in life as well as in death! He saves us a
During His busy preaching ministry, Jesus declared to the crowds of Palestine that He did not come to destroy the law but to satisfy its every demand with perfect obedience as to letter and spirit, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets, I am not come to destroy but to fulfill"
Christ was willing to give up every shred of human dignity out of obedience to His Father. They pretended to love God and charged Him with hypocrisy. When others revile us and cast our sins before our face, we must be ready to come before God with humble prayer imploring God’s forgiveness in Christ.
The term obedience and to obey in Scripture represents a very concept. The English wordobedience is derived from the Latin obedientia, which evidently has the meaning of "to hearken to a summons, to follow up a call, to submit," and hence, "to obey." Principally this is also true of the Greek word i
Situations could be multiplied. Obedience is the Christian virtue that applies to the sum total of young people’s living. Be obedient, and keep on being obedient, to parents and to all in authority, is the heart of what the apostle wrote. We have a beautiful illustration of obedience in our Lord Jes
This is why we are so thankful for the perfection of Another. Christ Jesus was always perfectly obedient to the will of His Father. And being obedient to the will of His Father partly involved submitting to the authorities especially at the end of His life, though they were wicked authorities. But H
Without condition, Christ walks in obedience, even unto death, praying, “Thy will be done.” Thus in each step of His life of suffering, He submitted His will to His Father’s. How blessed is this for the elect sinner! Christ as our Head satisfied God’s Word and law, and quenched His wrath in our stea
Notice that not only did he learn obedience, but the purpose and goal is the salvation of all them that obey him. This kind of obedience must be found in us! It is found in us because we are united to Christ by faith, and our union with Christ by faith begins to work a harmony between our will and G
He desires to be like Christ, he imitates Christ in his Christian walk, and he is willing to obey Christ. Christ is God’s Son. Christ walked a perfectly sinless life on earth. He worshipped God daily. If we read the Gospels we can see this. He went away early in the morning to worship God and to pra