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Beginning
in Genesis 22-18: And through your offspring all nations
on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed
me."
Ending
in Revelations 14-12:
This calls for patient endurance on the part of the
saints who obey
God's commandments and remain faithful to Jesus.
The word OBEY
appears 239 times.
Hebrews
5: 9 and, once made perfect, he became the
source of eternal salvation for all who
obey him
B. W. Johnson's
People's New Testament
Being made perfect. Fitted in all points
to be our high priest by his suffering; made, not a perfect
man, for he was that already, but a perfect high priest.
He became the author. Was able to offer the gospel to
all nations,
and thus to save all
them that obey him. He
does not save men in disobedience.
John 14
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you forever
B. W.
Johnson's
People's New Testament
15.
If ye love me, keep my commandments. Keeping the commandments
will be the result if we love him. The Revision gives the
true idea. Obedience is the fruit of love.
16.
I will pray the Father. Rather, "request."
The Greek word is not the one used when we
are bidden to pray. The creature prays;
the Son requests. He shall give you another Comforter. The Holy Spirit; the Helper.
The latter word more nearly expresses the idea of the Greek
term than the word "Comforter." Abide
with you forever. The Lord had been with them over three
years, but is about to depart. Henceforth he will abide
with them, not in person, but by the Holy Spirit that he
shall send. Through this agency he will be with his people
"always."
John
14:23-24
23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves
me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love
him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
24 He who does not love me will not obey
my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong
to the Father who sent me.
1
John:3-24 Those who obey
his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how
we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he
gave us.
Luke
11
27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called
out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and
nursed you."
28 He replied, "Blessed
rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
Verses
27-28 While the scribes and Pharisees despised and blasphemed
the discourses of our Lord Jesus, this good woman admired
them, and the wisdom and power with which he spake. Christ
led the woman to a higher consideration. Though it is a
great privilege to hear the word of God, yet those only are truly blessed, that is, blessed of the Lord, that hear
it, keep it in memory, and keep to it as their way and rule.
Romans
16
26 but now revealed and made known through
the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God,
so that all nations might believe and obey him--
The Concise
Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible
Verses
25-27 That which establishes souls, is, the plain preaching
of Jesus Christ is salvation to all nations. And the gospel
is revealed, not to be talked of and disputed about, but
to be submitted to. The obedience of faith is that obedience
which is paid to the word of faith, and which comes by the
grace of faith. All the glory that passes from fallen man
to God, so as to be accepted of him, must go through the
Lord Jesus, in whom alone our persons and doings are, or
can be, pleasing to God. Of his righteousness we must make
mention, even of his only; who, as he is the Mediator of
all our prayers, so he is, and will be, to eternity, the
Mediator of all our praises. Remembering that we are called
to the obedience of faith, and that every degree of wisdom
is from the only wise God, we
should, by word and deed, render glory to him through Jesus
Christ; that so the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ may be
with us forever.
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