Quotes About Obedience

Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If your heart is not submitting to the plan of God, you will actually use your theology to justify things that should not be justified.

Tienes todo lo que necesitas para vivir como Dios quiere que vivas!

Joyful, perseverant obedience only ever grows in the soil of worship.

God's call to obey is itself a grace. In this call, he is actively rescuing you from you.

No solo hemos sido liberados de la necesidad de cumplir la ley para ser salvos, sino también de la esclavitud al pecado en la vida diaria. Hemos sido liberados del peso de la ley para vivir una vida piadosa. No podemos gloriarnos en nuestra liberación sin a la vez aceptar nuestro llamado (ver Ro 6:1-14; Tit 2:11-14).

It requires powerful mercy for me to become a person who surrenders self-appointed authority to the authority of God.

True biblical faith is always something that you live. If your faith does not reshape your life, it is not true faith.

Christ has gained God's favor on your behalf. So your obedience is never a fearful payment, but a hymn of gratitude to a God who met you where you were and did for you what you could not have done for yourself.

Faith means you take God at his word, you never let yourself think that you're smarter than him, and you live inside his boundaries.

Your obedience is never to be done in the hope that you will get something, but rather in recognition of what you have already been given.

This means that if you obey him for a thousand years, you will have no more of his favor than when you first believed.

Jesus knew he had come not just to preach the gospel of sacrifice, but also to be that sacrifice, yet he was perfectly willing.

todos tendemos a ser mejores en hacer cumplir la ley que en extender la gracia.

You obey not to get God's attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.

May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.

Todo deseo humano debe sostenerse en sumisión a un propósito mayor, los deseos de Dios para Su reino.

We don't obey to get his favor; we obey because his favor has fallen on us and transformed our hearts, giving us the willingness and power to obey.

True Christianity is always a matter of the submission of the heart to God, something that only rescuing grace can produce.

You have no reason for fear when you answer God's call; you have every reason to be afraid when you put your life in your own hands.

Paul is saying that we do the right that we do because grace is at that moment rescuing us from ourselves. Grace is protecting us from the self-righteousness and self-sovereignty that would make us all too independent and all too rebellious. Every moment of our obedience is an evidence of and a celebration of the grace that not only forgives but rescues, and not only rescues but transforms. We live in God's sight not in our own strength, but only by grace.

Your children must learn early that they have been born into a world of authority, and they're not it.

You've been born into a world of authority, and it is not you.

If you obey for a thousand years, you're no more accepted than when you first believed; your acceptance is based on Christ's righteousness and not yours.

God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.