Quotes about Obedience

Torah is not theoretical morality but lived theology, a life enflamed by knowing God.

These common approaches fail the words of Jesus because in the Sermon Jesus calls his followers to do what he teaches. Those who don't do what he says, in fact, are condemned as foolish.

There's a difference between focusing on being right and focusing on being a follower of Jesus.

There is one reason the gate is "narrow": it is demanding discipleship.

There is no kingdom mission apart from submitting to Jesus as King and calling others to surrender before King Jesus.

Here's a more concrete, straightforward outline: First, Jesus fulfills the Torah and Prophets (5:17). Second, everything in the Torah is true (5:18). Third, everything therefore must be observed (5:19). Fourth, your obedience therefore must surpass the experts (5:20).

We stand with Calvin when it comes to the moral compass: Jesus "means that however difficult, arduous, troublesome or painful God's rule may be, we must make no excuse for that, as the righteousness of God should be worth more to us, than all the other things which are chiefly dear and precious.

It tells us that God gave the Bible a mission: God speaks to us so we will be the kind of people he wants and will live the way he wants us to live.

Though Son of God and though entitled to provisions, Jesus didn't let his physical desires dictate decisions.

The end of the Sermon makes it clear that Jesus expects his followers to take up his words and live them out regardless of the cost. I know of no alternative. Take them or leave them, is what I say to myself.

Because they love God and others, they are willing to check their passions and will in order to do God's will, to further God's justice, and to express their longing that God act to establish his will and kingdom.

the laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them.