And he lived his whole life
in obedience to the law, so that, according to Galatians 4:1 - 7 and Romans 6:14 - 17, we do not have to.
The letters of Paul reveal that he had tried with desperate earnestness to find salvation
in obedience to the Law.
They had hoped to gain eternal life by living
in obedience to the law.
Not exact matches
It's not about a
law or legalism... If you are truly Born of God
obedience is just the natural outcome of love, not trying... If you find yourself trying
to not cuss, well, that's works and legalism... but if you walk by the Spirit where the topic just never really comes up because it's not
in God's, Jesus» or the Holy Spirit's vocabulary.
(Ephesians 5:22 - 24) «Let your women keep silence
in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them
to speak; but they are commanded
to be under
obedience, as also saith the
law.
16 For I command you today
to love the Lord your God,
to walk
in obedience to him, and
to keep his commands, decrees and
laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you
in the land you are entering
to possess.
Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins
in the Garden of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation
to godhood) conditional upon our
obedience to the
laws and ordinances of the LDS gospel.
No,
obedience to such
laws are for peace and harmony
in society and culture as we live life with other human beings.
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.
All of a sudden, «The soul knew
in its very depths that it was living a lie, and this knowledge, together with the will
to perform could only be communicated
to the body as a resistance against its
law of total
obedience to the universal
law of the Good and the True.»
These are real decisions and not just acts or good works done
in obedience to God and
in response
to his known will, his
law, his clear commandment.
The young man cited I Corinthians 14:34 - 35 «Let your women keep silence
in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them
to speak; but they are commanded
to be under
obedience, as also saith the
law.
13) is not barely the professing a belief
in the person of Christ; but moreover, implies a belief of his whole doctrine, and an
obedience to his
law; without which, the calling him Lord will save no man.]
Linearly, if
law, conduct, or
obedience in any way are my entry point
to Jesus then I have
to give myself some credit
in making the deal happen.
We will see that Mary and Joseph's careful
obedience to the
law were key factors
in preparing Jesus for his earthly ministry.
He noted particularly «those superb chapters
in the second part of the Summa Theologiae on paternal or domestic government, the lawful power of the State or the nation, natural and international
law, peace and war, justice and property,
laws and the
obedience they command, the duty of helping individual citizens
in their need and cooperating with all
to secure the prosperity of the State, both
in the natural and the supernatural order.»
What God is looking for is repentence and a turning
to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the animal sacrifices
to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.For us
to be made right there has
to be a choice
to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should be a desire
to walk
in his ways.Under the old
law part of that
obedience was
to make offerings however it was by faith
in God that made the person righteous and not the blood of animals.
What would have happened if, even a year ago, Cardinal
Law had confronted them and other blatantly gay priests with the alternative of living
in obedience to their vows or leaving the priesthood?
If you want
to believe
in your god, then more power
to you, but don't make yourself look stupid by trying
to refute scientific fact based on what someone told you or what you've read
in an outdated book written
to scare and control mankind though fantastical and highly embellished stories meant
to inspire fear and
obedience to ancient
laws and beliefs.
Building his confidence before God upon his faith, repentance and other acts of
obedience, he places them
in Christ's stead as his grounds of right
to the promise and so he demonstrates himself
to be of the works of the
law and so be under the curse (Colquhoun, A Treatise).
Committed as they are
to Christ as the source and model of all that is holy, Christians are
in no way exempted from
obedience to the moral
law permanently inscribed by the Creator
in human nature (Romans 2:15).
Obedience to any item of the
law was
in itself an ethical act, and
in this sense, the relation of the individual
to God was ethicized.
Hence, the whole hierarchy of evaluations based upon
law and
obedience was overturned as the initiative was seen
to be
in the hands of the loving Father rather than with the ethical striving of man.
In this situation
obedience to the many
laws or rules governing what is usually understood
to be the righteous life is irrelevant.
There would have remained the dispute as
to whether salvation comes through
obedience to law or participation
in the faithfulness of Jesus, but this could have continued as a debate that might prove fruitful for both parties.
This same line of thought is continued
in the new version of the Professio fidei and the Oath of Fidelity of 1989.3 Although Canon
Law had already required it, «religious
obedience» must also be promised and sworn
to by all theologians and office holders.
But his concern for the
law persisted
in his summons
to distinguish between the external
obedience required by it and the inner fidelity
to a higher
law required of a life reborn by the love and mercy of God.
Obedience to the
law became an end
in itself.
Their chief focus is on helping people develop a personal and saving relationship
to Jesus Christ and
to live
in peace with their neighbors by cultivating an
obedience to universal principles of moral
law.
It offers protection
to its people and
in turn demands
obedience to its
laws.
Its peculiarity consists
in the fact that as a
law it commands the spirit of love which must be something more than
obedience to law.
But the
obedience that He is after
in us is not
obedience to the
law... but the
obedience of faith.
His teachings indicate that he wanted his followers
to be obedient
to GOD above all and that when no conflict between the two exists, the the former
obedience (Caesar or the
LAW of the land or government as it were) was
in essence
obedience to God.
The apostle insists that if one is
in the
law system — that is, if one is relying upon
obedience to God's commands for one's salvation — one's
obedience must be complete.
This view finds rather crude expression
in the assumption that the
Law, even where it is wholly incomprehensible
to man, requires
obedience.
Whatever the
Law says, we know, it says
to those who are inside the
Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable
to God; for no person will be acquitted
in his sight on the score of
obedience to Law.
Here and there it may be, we can catch a glimpse of the wonderful order
in nature, the regularity of the stars, scattered over the wide spaces of the universe yet obedient
to one
law; the order
to be found even
in the microscopic world, as also within visible things concerning which science has given such amazing information
in recent years; the order
in the construction of a flower or of an animal, from the flea
to the whale, a noteworthy
obedience to law even
in the life of man.
(I Timothy 2:11 - 14) «Let your women keep silence
in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them
to speak; but they are commanded
to be under
obedience, as also saith the
law.
1 Corinthians 14:34 - 36 Let your women keep silence
in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them
to speak; but they are commanded
to be under
obedience as also saith the
law.
And by «moral earnestness» I do not mean the sort of moralism which centers itself
in obedience to codes or
laws or sets of commandments, whether they be ten or of any other number.
Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is
to God and not the state
in its demand for
obedience to the
law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability
to God.
I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear
to be «love
in motion» flowing
in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man
to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more»
to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves
to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created
to assist man, rather than man created
to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the
Law into one of assistance rather than being chained
to obedience; — He insists on impartiality
in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».
There is no love of the brother, no holy and responsible care except that which proceeds from the deep roots
in a man of the love of God and his rightful
obedience to the creative Unity -
Law.»
If God is God, then all life should be lived
in obedience to God's
laws.
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage
to plant the first colony
in the Northern parts of Virg = inia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually,
in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof
to enact, and frame, such just and equal
laws, ordinances, acts, and offices, from time
to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and
obedience.
The task of teaching us the
law and helping us
to apply it is the function of the state and the Church, and one can expect his reward or punishment
in this life or
in eternity, according
to his
obedience to civil and divine
law respectively.
A
law which properly has only this meaning:
to release man from the world,
to separate him from any interest
in an independent cultural development, and
to humble him
in obedience to the transcendent power of God — of a God, whose image is not
in any sense determined by the conception that man has of his own highest spiritual life.
Its true center, he saw, lay
in obedience to God's
law, not
in feasts, solemn assemblies, and burnt offerings, and divine election meant election
to moral responsibility.
What is vital
to our study is that from the time of Moses onward the people felt themselves
to be
in a particular relationship
to their God.2 This relationship centers
in a covenant voluntarily initiated by God, offering Yahweh's protection and support
in return for
obedience to his will and
law.
Yahweh's chief pleasure was not
in the blood of the rams or bullocks, though the ceremonial
law might require them; it was
in obedience to his holy will, which came
in the insights of the prophets
to mean «mercy and not sacrifice.»