Showing posts with label Obedience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obedience. Show all posts

Jeremiah Burroughs on Obedience and Worship

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.”

Jeremiah Burroughs


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Charles Hodge on Obedience to God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 5:30 AM

“The proximate result of obedience to God is inward conformity to the Divine image”

Charles Hodge


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Martyn Lloyd-Jones on The Sciptures

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Friday, July 13, 2018 at 5:09 AM

“How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us.”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


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Matthew Meade on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, May 12, 2017 at 5:30 AM

“A man may obey the law, and yet have no love to the lawgiver: a carnal heart may do the command of God, but he cannot love God, and therefore cannot do it aright; for love to God is the foundation and spring of all true obedience. Every command of God is to be done in love: this is the "fulfiling of the law."”

Matthew Meade


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Thomas Brooks on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 5:30 AM

"Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise."

Thomas Brooks

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A.W. Pink on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“The obedience that God requires can proceed only from a heart that loves Him. “Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord” (Col 3:23). The obedience that springs from a dread of punishment is servile. The obedience that is performed in order to procure favors from God is selfish and carnal. But spiritual and acceptable obedience is cheerfully given: it is the heart’s free response to and gratitude for the unmerited regard and love of God for us.”

A.W. Pink

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A.W. Pink on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“God has given us His Word not only with the design of instructing us, but for the purpose of directing us: to make known what He requires us to do. The first thing we need is a clear and distinct knowledge of our duty; and the first thing God demands of us is a conscientious practice of it, corresponding to our knowledge.”

A.W. Pink


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John Bunyan on Obedience to Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, March 21, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.”

John Bunyan


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Ebenezer Erskine on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 5:30 AM

“So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully. So we compromise. We do some of what we should, thus removing the stigma of disobedience. But we refrain from the most difficult or objectionable or uncomfortable part, and thus try to get the best of both worlds.”

Ebenezer Erskine


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Clyde Cranford on Obedience and Love of God

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 6:30 AM

"Love is obedience.  Obedience is both the expression and the evidence of genuine love toward God."

Clyde Cranford


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A.W. Tozer on Obedience and Faith

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, March 3, 2014 at 6:30 AM

"The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is not true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only. Where real repentance is, there is obedience; for repentance is not only sorrow for past failures and sins, it is a determination to begin now to do the will of God as He reveals it to us."

A.W. Tozer


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A.A. Hodge on Obedience to God in All Areas of Life

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, December 27, 2012 at 7:30 AM


"A Christian is just as much under the obligation to obey God's will in the most secular of his daily business as he is in his closet or at A Christian is just as much under the obligation to obey God’s will in the most secular of his daily business as he is in his closet or at the communion table. He has no right to separate his life into two realms, and acknowledge different moral codes in each…

The kingdom of God includes all sides of human life, and it is a kingdom of absolute righteousness. You are either a loyal subject or a traitor. When the King comes, how will he find you doing? The kingdom of God is one, it cannot be divided…

If the Church languishes, the State cannot be in health; and if the State rebels against its Lord and King, the Church cannot enjoy His favour…

I charge you, citizens of the United States, afloat on your wide sea of politics, THERE IS ANOTHER KING, ONE JESUS: THE SAFETY OF THE STATE CAN BE SECURED ONLY IN THE WAY OF HUMBLE AND WHOLE-SOULED LOYALTY TO HIS PERSON AND OF OBEDIENCE TO HIS LAW. communion table.  He has no right to separate his life into two realms, and acknowledge different moral codes in each."
A. A. Hodge


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Thomas Watson on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 8:00 AM


"Some will obey partially, obey some commandments, not others ; like a plough which, when it comes to a stiff piece of earth, makes a baulk. But God that spake all the words of the moral law, will have all obeyed."
Thomas Watson

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John Howe on Obedience and Joy

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , | Posted On Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 8:00 AM


“God is not otherwise to be enjoyed than as he is obeyed: nor indeed are the notions of him, as a Lord to be obeyed, and as a good to be enjoyed, entirely distinct; but are interwoven and do run into one another.  We obey him, even in enjoying him; it being part of our enjoined duty, to set our hearts upon him, as our best and highest good.  And we enjoy him in obeying him; the advantage and benefit of his government, being a real and most momentous part of that good which we enjoy from him, and in him.”
John Howe
(1630-1705)


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William Secker on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, December 19, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"It is our bounden duty to live in obedience, but it would prove our utter ruin to live on obedience."
William Secker
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George Swinnock on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"As the saint is described sometimes by a "clean heart," so also sometimes by "clean hands," because he has both; the holiness of his heart is seen at his fingers' ends."
George Swinnock


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Thomas Watson on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, April 18, 2011 at 9:00 AM

“God commands nothing but what is beneficial. “O Israel, what doth the Lord require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep His statutes, which I command thee this day, for thy good?” To obey God, is not so much our duty as our privilege.”
Thomas Watson

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Samuel Rutherford on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, April 8, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"When the Lord's blessed will bloweth cross your desires, it is best, in humility, to strike sail to Him, and to be willing to be led any way our Lord pleaseth."
Samuel Rutherford

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Richard Sibbes on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 9:18 AM

"Partial obedience is not obedience at all; to single out easy things that do not oppose our lusts, which are not against our reputation, therein some will do more than they need; but our obedience must be universal to all God's commandments, and that because He commands it. Empty relationships are nothing; if we profess ourselves God's servants and do not honour Him by our obedience, we take but an empty title."
Richard Sibbes


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Richard Baxter on Obedience

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, November 26, 2010 at 10:00 AM

"Lord, whatever you want, wherever you want it, and whenever you want it, that's what I want."
Richard Baxter


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