OBEDIENCE
(See DISOBEDIENCE)
to God:
obedience of Israel
♦ required by God
• Exodus 19:5; 23:20-21; Leviticus 19:37; Deuteronomy 10:12-13; 27:9-10; 30:15-20; Joshua 22:5; 2 Kings 17:37-38; Malachi 4:4
♦ promised by Israel
♦ tested by God
♦ produced in the latter days by distress
obedience as a priority
♦ over sacrificial offerings
♦ of God over man
♦ over outward rites
♦ obedience from all dominions in His future kingdom
in relation to Christ (i.e., Messiah):
obedience to Christ
♦ by the peoples
♦ by the winds and the sea
♦ by the unclean spirits
♦ by believers
♦ expressed in His baptism
♦ involved commitment to the Father's will
contrasted to obedience by Christ
(See also CHRIST, characteristics of, obedient)
predicted in the OT
♦ Adam's disobedience
♦ extended to His sacrificial death
♦ learned through suffering
in certain human relationships:
♦ obedience of citizens to rulers:
♦ obedience of wives to husbands:
♦ obedience of children to parents:
♦ obedience of slaves to masters:
(See also MASTER)
♦ obedience of Christians to church leaders:
examples of:
♦ Enoch:
• Genesis 5:22, 24
♦ Noah:
♦ Abraham:
♦ Jacob:
♦ Moses:
♦ Israel at certain times:
♦ Caleb:
♦ Joshua:
♦ David:
♦ Elijah:
♦ Hezekiah:
♦ Josiah:
♦ Ezra:
♦ Job:
• Job 1:8
♦ the Psalmist:
♦ Isaiah:
♦ the family of the Rechabites:
♦ Daniel:
♦ Daniel's three friends:
♦ Zacharias and Elizabeth:
♦ the virgin Mary:
♦ Joseph:
♦ John the Baptist:
♦ the disciples:
♦ Peter and John:
♦ Paul:
♦ the believers at Rome:
♦ the believers at Philippi:
♦ the believers at Thessalonica:
♦ Sarah to Abraham:
motivation for:
♦ reverence for the Lord:
• Deuteronomy 5:29 (cf. Proverbs 16:6)
♦ love for the Lord:
♦ exhortation to
• Proverbs 7:1; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Jeremiah 26:13; Philippians 2:12; 1 Timothy 6:13-14; Titus 3:1; James 1:22-25; 1 Peter 1:14
results of:
♦ for Abraham:
♦ for Israel:
• Exodus 19:5-6; 23:22-23; Leviticus 18:5; 26:3-13; Deuteronomy 4:40; 7:12-15; 11:13-15; 15:4-6; 28:1-14; 30:1-10; Joshua 1:8; 1 Samuel 12:14-15; 1 Kings 8:23; 2 Kings 21:8; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Nehemiah 1:5; Proverbs 1:33; Isaiah 1:19; Jeremiah 7:23; 26:13; 38:20; Zechariah 6:15; Malachi 3:10-12
♦ for NT believers:
• Matthew 7:24-25; John 13:17; 14:23; 15:10, 14; Acts 5:32; 2 Corinthians 9:13; Hebrews 5:9; James 1:25; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 John 2:3-4; 2:17; 3:22, 24; Revelation 1:3
various other uses:
♦ pretentious obedience:
♦ individual promise of obedience:
♦ request to be divinely taught obedience:
♦ reversal of obedience:
♦ obedience to the faith (i.e., the Christian message):
• Acts 6:7
♦ obedience of faith (i.e., personal expression of faith):
• Romans 1:5; 16:26
♦ obedience to unrighteousness:
♦ obedience of the Gentiles (i.e., to Paul's Christian message):
♦ obedience in giving to needy believers:
♦ completion of obedience:
♦ confidence in another's obedience:
• Philemon 21
♦ obedience of animals to men:
This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.