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Obedience in the Life of Christ
Written By: Nathan Crawley
In all things that we as Christians do,
they should be done as Christ would do
them and so to bring honor and glory to
God our Father. The bible says in 1st Co-
rinthians 10:31, “Whether there-fore ye eat, or drink, or
whatsoever ye do, do all to the honor and glory of God.”
We as Christians are saved to bring honor and glory
to God in everything that we do and there is no better
way to please God, to honor Him, or to prove our love to
Him than to obey what He has written in His word.
Obedience is the key to pleasing the Father. The
obedience that is found in the life of Christ is the pattern
that must be followed if we are to please our Father as He
did in Mathew 4:17, Mark 1:11, Luke 3:22 and 2nd Peter
1:17. Christ who had left His Thrown on high, left all of
His Glory above, left the presence of the father, left the
angelic host that proclaims His holiness has now de-
scended to earth to do not His will But the will of the
Father.
Christ’s obedience is always preceded by humility.
The bible says in Philippians 2:7,8 (7) “But made himself
of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a ser-
vant, and was made in the likeness of men: (8) And being
found in fashion as a man, He humbled himself, and be-
came obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
In verse seven Christ is no longer equal with God
but has now been made a little lower than the angels to
become a servant subject to the law. In this the obedience
of Christ
Obedience
is the key
to pleasing
the Father.
rings out through the ages as an old
church bell signifying time to wor-
ship for we see Christ who was God
in Deity, in obedience to the Fathers
will, leaves the glorious splendor of
heaven to take upon flesh and be fashioned as a man that
through obedience He would reconcile man back to God
the Father.
Our reconciliation and all things we know as Chris-
tians whether it be justification, sanctification, or regen-
eration all stem from Christ’s perfect obedience or fulfill-
ment of the law.
(Rom 5:19 KJV) For as by one man's disobedience many
were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall
many be made righteous.
You will find no boundaries in the obedience of
Christ, no banks to hold the river of His love . We find in
verse eight of Philippians chapter two that He humbled
Himself and became obedient unto death. Christ’s love
for His Father and His love for sinners was so great that
he put no limitations on what He was willing to go
through to please God and to redeem man.
Christ’s obedience is and obedience motivated by
love, the love that he had for the Father and the love that
he had for sinners. Christ’s obedience is an act of the
heart it is a perfect obedience in which that can only be
possessed by a Holy God who knows no sin. Christ, God
in Deity is love and only He himself can know a perfect
obedience that is motivated by a perfect love that resides
in a perfect heart. Obedience in the life of Christ is a per-
fect obedience one that will never be obtained by man
here on this earth but it is most definitely the obedience
that should be strived for by every believer that professes
Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Christ had no reservations in His obedience no re-
striction do to race, color, creed, or cause. He was willing
to die for all that would reject Him knowing the suffer-
ing, shame, and separation that He would face. Oh that
we as Christians could see the obedience of Christ in all
His glory and act upon our hearts motivated by His love
and obey the Fathers will.
Christ’s obedience should motivate us to obey. You
do not have to look very close to see the great love that
motivated Christ to obey. That love was directed toward
you and me as sinners on our way to a hell. But Christ,
full of obedience acted with His perfect heart motivated
by His perfect love and gave Himself to be sacrificed for
all mankind.
My friends, thinking of the price of His obedience
should cause we as Christians to be motivated enough to
act upon that love and obey the revealed truth of the
word of God. With the price of His obedience in view our
obedience to Him should be our utmost
desire knowing that His obedience cost
Him all.
Oh my friends, my heart overflows
with a love that is unable to be de-
scribed just to know that Jesus loved
me enough to die. What a wonderful
Savior we serve and may the obedience
in the life of Christ cause us to obey as we think of the
price of His.
Our success as Christians in the area of obedience
will depend on our love for God. Christ said in John
14:15 “if you love me, keep my commandments.” In
John 14:21 he continues, “He that hath my command-
ments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he
that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will
love him, and will manifest myself to him.” Furthermore
in John 15:10 He elaborates on the condition of success
“If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my
love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments,
and abide in his love.” Christ’s pattern of obedience to
God is that it is motivated out of love. We should obey
God the Father because we love Him and if we love Him
we will keep His commandments.
This should not come as a shock but the bible says
that all commandments rest upon two found in Matt
22:37-40, (37) “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with
all thy mind.(38) This is the first and great command-
ment. (39) And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself. (40) On these two command-
ments hang all the law and the prophets.”
In conclusion of this chapter let me summarize the
thought. Our goal is to please God and to have an inti-
mate relationship with him. An intimate relationship
can’t exist without love. Christ’s obedience unto death is
His proof unto us of the love that He possesses. Our love
to Him and to God the Father is proven when we obey.
May we learn obedience through our sufferings and
prove our love to God that in our obedience we may have
an intimate unbroken relationship with Him.
(Heb 5:8-9 KJV) Though he were a Son, yet learned
he obedience by the things which he suffered;
(9)And being made perfect, he became the author of
eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;