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Discipleship Focus: Obedience
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from our Father.
I think
the idea of obedience is fundamental to the middle section of the book of
Galatians. But this idea of obedience
goes multi-directional. It must
fundamentally start with Christ. From
where does our salvation originate?
Christ and His obedient death on the cross. Why can we have access to the Holy
Spirit? Christ and His death on the
cross. Jesus Christ is obedient to the
Father and died according to His will.
everything we are in Christ begins with Christ.
However,
this idea of obedience also extends to us.
Does everyone have the Holy Spirit within them? Sure, Christ died so that anyone who desires
relationship with God can have that relationship. But does that mean that all people do? By no means!
God calls me to respond obediently to His calling. God calls me to hear about His grace and love
and mercy and then receive it. Then He
calls for me to obediently live out my reception of His grace.
It is by
faith that we are in Christ. But we are
not done with the Law, either. The Law
shows us how to live and in Christ we obediently look up to the Law and strive
for it. We do not do this to prove to
God why He should save us. Rather, we do
His will because it is our response to the fact that He has already saved us.
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