Is odedience still relevant today?

The New Covenant does not do away with the need for obedience to God's laws. In fact it reinforces it. No exemptions granted. Anyone who dilutes, minimises, or does not even speak about this truth is not preaching the full gospel.
  • Matthew 5:17 -“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

The New Covenant does not do away with the need for obedience to God. In fact, it supplies the strength to live that way.

We need to be very careful about some soothing teachings today that does not speak about obedience. God understands, He forgives. All that is true.

The “overwhelming desire for the remission of that sin” is all too often left out in the liberal church.  

Listen: If the message does not call you to obedience to God, something is wrong. It misses the fundamental relationship a person is supposed to have with God.

  • John 14:24 - He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father who sent Me.”

Both covenants call for obedience to God:

 

The difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant is how that obedience is obtained. In the New Covenant:


  • 2 Pet 1:3-4 - His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.


We are empowered by grace to live Holy lives. It's not something we can workout with our flesh. It's by choosing to walk in the spirit as our spirit has been born again. Many stop at saving grace and try to continue their Christian lives by their own strength and end up giving up, failing to realise God's grace is not just a saving grace, but it is an empowering grace so that we now become partakers of the divine nature.

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