Obedience

Contents

1. What is?

2. Results/benefits/fruits

3. Examples

4. References

5. Disobedience

6. To whom due

 

What is?

Taking action in line with a revealed, expected, declared expressed law, desire, or opinion of oneself or another person.

 

Obedience

 

OBE'DIENCE, n. [L. obedientia. See Obey.]

 

Compliance with a command, prohibition or known law and rule of duty prescribed; the performance of what is required or enjoined by authority, or the abstaining from what is prohibited, in compliance with the command or prohibition.

To constitute obedience, the act or forbearance to act must be in submission to authority; the command must be known to the person, and his compliance must be in consequence of it, or it is not obedience. Obedience is not synonymous with obsequiousness; the latter often implying meanness or servility, and obedience being merely a proper submission to authority.

That which duty requires implies dignity of conduct rather than servility. Obedience may be voluntary or involuntary. Voluntary obedience alone can be acceptable to God.

 

Government must compel the obedience of individuals; otherwise who will seek its protection or fear its vengeance?

 

Obey

 

OBEY, v.t. [L. obedio; Gr.]

 

1. To comply with the commands, orders or instructions of a superior, or with the requirements of law, moral, political or municipal; to do that which is commanded or required, or to forbear doing that which is prohibited.

 

Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph 6.

 

Servants, obey in all things your masters. Col 3.

 

He who has learned to obey, will know how to command.

 

2. To submit to the government of; to be ruled by.

 

All Israel obeyed Song 1Chron. 29. Dan 7.

 

3. To submit to the direction or control of. Seamen say, the ship will not obey the helm.

 

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Rom 6. James 3.

 

4. To yield to the impulse, power or operation of; as, to obey stimulus.

 

Relentless time, destroying power, whom stone and brass obey.

 

 

 

Obedience is an attribute of the believer, whereas disobedience is a work of the devil

Gen. 3:1-6

 

Total/Partial obedience

God demands complete obedience,

In the book of exodus etc, God's commandment to Moses concerning the building of the tabernacle was: according to

Rebecca gave a directive to Jacob and she expected him to do according to her words:

Genesis 27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

The King James Version

 

Reasons for obedience

We would obey God as a sign of our love for him; in actual fact we are more likely to obey people we love and respect than those for whom we have no regard

John 14:15,16

 

 

 

To whom due

Genesis 27:6-17

Exodus 24:7

Exodus 5:2

 

Leaders

Num. 27:18-23

Results/benefits/fruits

Blessings of God

Genesis 22:1-18

Exodus 19:5

Deut. 28:1-14

 

Divine protection

Exodus 23:20-23

 

Posterity blessings

Genesis 26:1-5

 

Deliverance

Examples

David, Samuel

Disobedience

Exodus 5:2

See also [-Disobedience]

 

 

References