TRUE OBEDIENCE by Christian Intelligencer

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 13, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 18.

TRUE OBEDIENCE.

By Christian Intelligencer

OBEDIENCE is knowledge applied. It is belief in motion. To obedience Jesus looks to find the true test of friendship and love to him: "Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you." "He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me." His disciples, therefore, need to do more than to look into their minds to see if they have knowledge of Christ, and into their hearts to see if they have the love of Christ; they need to look to their feet to see if they run in the way of Christ's commands, to ascertain whether their obedience is in accordance with their knowledge and professed belief. Jesus obeyed the law perfectly. "Though he was a Son, yet learned [he] obedience by the things which he suffered; and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the Author of eternal salvation." And to his disciples he said, "I have given you an example." Therefore, no believer is justified in becoming so engrossed in his contemplation of Christ's cross of atonement as to allow it to obscure Christ's life of satisfying obedience; and in his rapture at the view of Calvary to think that he has nothing to do but to stand, clap his hands, and shout—

"Hallelujah, 'tis done! I believe on the Son; I am saved by the blood of the crucified One." —Christian Intelligencer.