Many dog owners invest considerable time in activating their dogs
by obedience training, seeking activities, tracking and protection exercises at training grounds, out in the countryside or in the forest.
Ultimately, in order for your dog to understand you are in charge, he / she needs to be taught to obey your
commands by obedience training and daily reinforcement.
For just as by the disobedience of one man, namely, Adam, many were made sinners, so
by the obedience of one man, many were made righteous.
That is a central Christian teaching which many Christians find offensive since they have fallen into the Galatian heresy of beginning in the Gospel, but returning to the Law: saved by Grace, but remain
saved by our obedience.
Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
l God has entered into a covenant with America and will shower blessings on it only so long as some unknown remnant of Americans honors the
covenant by obedience to the Law.
So the point that Paul makes in Romans 5 isn't that all men have inherited from Adam a genetic trait of sin, but that trust in God's faithfulness, and justification by trust, were never by the law and
always by obedience to the Father based on trust of his faithfulness.
For this connection could be conceived externally; participation in the Kingdom of God might appear as the reward
sought by obedience, and thus the radical character of obedience would be lost.
Only a mature, paschal faith — an Easter faith — can perceive who Jesus is, understand what Jesus taught, and grasp what Jesus has
accomplished by his obedience to the Father.
All of these gods that man has created provide no one with any measure of
completeness by obedience to the doctrine that they present.
Prophetic man was not first committed to calculating self - interest and then persuaded that he could achieve his interests
best by obedience to God.
He goes to great lengths to show that the effort to overcome the consequences of
idolatry by obedience to law is not successful.
Of course, even in that state God always provided cover to those who found grace in His
eyes by obedience and faith.
At great cost they have been ransomed from their futile ways, therefore they must purify their
souls by their obedience (1:18 - 22).
I interdict
absolutely by obedience all the brothers, clerics and laymen, to introduce glosses in the Rule or in this Will, under pretext of explaining it.
The only possible method, then, is to gain from the words of Jesus some conception of what he
understood by obedience to the will of God.
Each generation, in the circumstances of its own time, seeks a deliverance from bondage, and is led to freedom
only by obedience to the Word of YHWH.
It is easy to see how satanically attractive such teaching could be; and it is easy to see how those who propagated it would take to themselves a conscious superiority, contemptuous of those who still allowed themselves to be shackled and
constricted by obedience to the moral law or to any other kind of law.
His life in Newark, New Jersey in 1951 is one
defined by obedience and repression, with Marcus working alongside his father in a kosher butcherie, counting the days until he escapes the influence of his increasingly paranoid and overbearing father, a man deeply wounded by watching the sons of friends and acquaintances buried by their grieving parents.
These classes are
offered by Obedience dog clubs, local Adult Education departments and animal shelters.
«We believe that through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be
saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
(8) All those who are maintained in the
covenant by obedience, atonement and God's mercy belong to the group which will be saved.
5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but
by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless.
Thus God has always justified
by obedience through trust and not by obedience to the law.
The only sure way in which we can transcend our human relativities is
by obedience to the absolute and eternal God.