Obedience

Full question studies on obedience

• How do I resist temptation?

  Scripture says God always provides a way of escape, that temptation begins with desire inside us rather than with God, and that the ordinary means of resisting are watching, praying, walking by the Spirit, hiding God's word in the heart, and fleeing rather than negotiating. It does not promise that temptation stops, and it sends the tempted person to a High Priest who was tempted himself and can be approached for help.

• What does the Bible say about money?

  Scripture treats money as a real good that God provides and as a rival master that can own a person. It never calls money evil; it calls the love of money a root of all kinds of evil, warns that no one can serve both God and wealth, and directs the rich to generosity and everyone to contentment. Its main question about money is not how much you have but who you are serving with it.

• What does it mean to follow Jesus?

  In the Gospels following Jesus begins with his call, not with our decision to improve. It means going where he goes, learning from him, remaining in his word, loving as he loved, and denying yourself daily rather than adding him to the life you already had. He states the cost openly, including family, possessions and your own life, and in the same Gospels he offers rest, a light burden and his own presence. Following is not a mood; it is a direction, and it is walked one day at a time.

• How do I know God's will for my life?

  Scripture speaks of God's will in two ways. His revealed will is what he has already told us plainly and is not in doubt: holiness, love, gratitude, obedience. His hidden will concerns the future and is not given to us in advance. The Bible directs almost all its attention to the first, and it teaches us to make wise decisions inside it rather than to decode secret guidance.

• Why do Christians still struggle with sin?

  Because salvation changes a person's standing with God immediately but their character gradually, and the New Testament is honest that the old nature keeps fighting the new one until glory. Paul, writing as a mature apostle, describes the very struggle in Romans 7. The presence of a fight is not proof that grace has failed. It is often proof that it has begun.

• What must I do to be saved?

  Scripture answers this exact question three times, to three different people, and gives the same substance every time even though the words differ. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved. Repent, and be baptized in his name for the forgiveness of your sins. Sell what you have, and follow me. These are not three different roads to God. They are one road described to a jailer trembling before a magistrate, to a crowd cut to the heart at Pentecost, and to a rich man who trusted his own righteousness. Salvation has always come by grace through faith in Christ, and the obedience each person was called to simply showed where their faith already stood.

Daily readings on obedience

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Deep chapter studies to read next

A topic is best learned inside a chapter. These are the full studies published so far.

• Genesis 4 Cain and Abel: the first murder and the heart behind it.
• Genesis 22: The Mountain Where God Revealed the Gospel Obedience, substitution, and the first Father who gave a son
• Psalm 1: The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked Two ways, two influences, two outcomes
• Psalm 23: The LORD Our Shepherd The Shepherd who never leaves His people

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