“All right knowledge of God is born out of obedience.” —John Calvin
Matthew 7:24-29 CSB
- Both
- Both houses are hit with a
- Both houses looked the
James 1:19-25 CSB
You
the Scriptures when you
the Scriptures.
Why is obedience to the Bible so hard for us?
1. It takes
to obey.
2. Our culture’s information to
ratio is way off.
“[Information is] disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don’t know what to do with it.” —Neil Postman
3. We are afraid of
our salvation.
“If people in our Christian fellowship today were to announce that they had decided to keep God’s law, we would probably be skeptical and alarmed. We probably would take them aside for counseling and possibly alert other responsible people in the group to keep an eye on them. We would be sure nothing good would come of it. We know that one is not saved by keeping the law and can think of no other reason why one should try to do it.
This leaves us caught in a strange inversion of the work of the Judaizing teachers who dogged the footsteps of Paul in New Testament days. As they wanted to add obedience to ritual law to faith in Christ, we want to subtract moral law from faith in Christ. How to combine faith with obedience is surely the essential task of the church as it enters the twenty-first century.” —Dallas Willard
The
of Jesus is the source of the good life, and the
of Jesus are the course of the good life.
Matthew 5:21-26 CSB
“Putting His words into action and finding them to be true.” —Dallas Willard
Your
is your life.