THE ROOT OF OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE

OBEDIENCE

Obedience is from GOD John 10:27 “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” (KJV) and all those that obey have something in common they know JESUS CHRIST and the person of JESUS. One who truly knows JESUS CHRIST is compelled to obey JESUS CHRIST and obeying JESUS CHRIST is following JESUS CHRIST and following JESUS turns you to Jesus on earth (being renewed in the image of JESUS CHRIST), the reason being 2^nd Corinthians 3:18 “But we all with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord Spirit” (LITV).

 The first obedience is first of all that of the faith as in Romans 1:5 “…for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name” (KJV)

Obedience to the faith here is making JESUS the author and finisher of our faith Hebrews 12:2 and accepting His finished work as in  John 17:4  “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do”

Obedience to the faith is not a final process but just the beginning of knowing GOD personally, what a great privilege and this is true Christianity as in John 17:3 “And this is everlasting life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.” (LITV)

And as we all know that everlasting life is the reason for JESUS’S coming as in John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

So the root of Obedience is knowing GOD intimately which is the conscious effort after the obedience to the faith.

SO DEAR CHRISTIAN WORK SO EARNESTLY TO KNOW GOD INTIMATELY THROUGH YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD WHICH IS GOTTEN IN THE PLACE OF STUDY OF THE WORD OF GOD 2Timothy 2:15.

DISOBEDIENCE

Disobedience of the devil and has it’s root to him the thieve as in John 10:10 (check on my blogpost HE has not left us ignorant to die part 1).

How does he deceive the children of GOD to disobedience one major way is through the scriptures?

The next question I suppose is how is this so?

Let’s look at this with examples from the scriptures

THE FIRST ADAM

After the first creation and everything being so good in GOD’S sight Gen 1:31 HE gave man an instruction in Gen 2:16-17 “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (KJV)

When the thieve came to deceive man in the garden of Eden this was the conversation he had with man (Eve) Gen 3:1-6

“And he (the thieve) said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”

From the passage above we realise that Eve could recite the scriptures what GOD spoke to her but she did not know why it was so she did not know the intention of the instruction (that was the depth she missed out) so we can conclude that without the depth of the WORD/INSTRUCTION of GOD you remain shallow and the shallow Christian falls prey of the deception of the evil one. That was given and that was where she fell, and this was the hedge that the enemy used to strike. Another question arises:

HOW COULD SHE HAVE KNOWN THE DEPTH OF THE INTENTIONS OF GOD FOR HER AND HER HUSBAND?

The answer is on the surface of the waters and it is through her fellowship with GOD which is as a result of her love for GOD as in John 14:21 “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him” (KJV)

The new question now becomes this: Did she love GOD?

The answer is no from the scriptures John 14:15. Secondly if she loved GOD she would have been longing out for GOD or having a wonderful fellowship with GOD but instead she was found doing nothing the hedge was broken. Then another prove to this is that when GOD came down she would have fallen to her knees to ask for forgiveness rather she put the blame on the serpent Genesis 3:13.

This lands us to our new conclusion that it is only a heart of love for GOD that would drive us to knowing the person of GOD and this is eternal life John 17:3.

THE SECOND ADAM

After Jesus finished fasting in the wilderness He was obviously hungry like every other person would be and the devil appeared with these scriptures Mat 4:5-6 “ Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.” (KJV)

But Jesus equally replied with the scriptures saying Matthew 4:7 “It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” (KJV)

  Jesus understood why the words were given HE understood not just the scriptures but saw the reason why it was given and knew how well to apply HIM (the scriptures). And this was the difference between the first and second Adam, Jesus knew indepthedly the scriptures and the mind of the Father to the application and this was the reason HE overcame.

Yes you would overcome when you know indepthedly what GOD is saying in HIS WORD, the reason for HIS WORD