Obedience by Herrick Johnson

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 11.

Obedience.

By Herrick Johnson

God wants obedience rather than the fat of rams. He will be obeyed. That is the one absolutely fundamental condition of acceptable discipleship. We are not freed from this obligation in Christ. To think that we can have Christ as a Saviour without taking him as Master and Lord is a miserable delusion. God wants neither sighs nor rhapsodies, but righteous lives. God told Saul that "to obey is better than sacrifice;" for "rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft." 1 Sam. 15:22. Christ said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." John 14:15. The law is not our Saviour, but we cannot put our feet on the least law and keep a Saviour. Liberty in Christ is not liberty to trifle with God's will. We must fall into line with that or perish.—Rev. Herrick Johnson, D. D.