Address—Don Rule
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To him I was thinking about not in the himbo.
So Lord had a a way of dealing with that. However, I'd like to, uh, sing.
The first verse of it, or at least those of us that are able, we'll sing the first verse in the chorus. It's found in little. I'm sorry. It's on the Echoes of Grace hymn book. I'll quote it, not from memory. Uh, and then we'll, those of us that can, we'll try to sing it when we walk with the Lord.
In the light of his word.
What a glory he sheds on our way.
While we do his sweet will.
How our hearts He can fill with His love as we trust.
And obey, trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy.
In Jesus, but to trust and obey. So let's sing that.
All right, let me see.
Well, I wanted to tell you.
Wherever you are.
And no rain.
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More than so hard, never mind.
I guess all my life I've been told certain things go together.
And I'm sure they do.
Umm, two things that.
And spiritual things go together.
Our happiness.
And obedience.
They go together.
And we just sang a song that obviously the author of the song was bringing that before us. There's no other way.
You'll be happy in Jesus.
But to trust.
And obey. We're going to talk about obedience. Obedience is the companion talk to Jim's of yesterday.
A man as a creature.
As a relationship to his creator God that intimately involves trust.
It's impossible for God to have a a true relationship with us without trust being involved in it.
And there's two fundamental things.
That are connected with a relationship with God.
One is dependence, and that was yesterday's that's we know that prayer, as Jim said, in its broadest sense is simply talking to God.
But prayer is the prime one of the prime ways in which we express our dependence upon God. So in that sense, yesterday we had the importance and the consequences of dependence upon God.
The other fundamental relationship that we have to God from Adam on is obedience.
We are God's creation, and His relationship with us now from Adam all the way into eternity, is involved with obedience.
Umm, for most of us, obedience isn't a real good word.
Most of us can remember, or some of us still are children. And there's the difficulty we have with the word obedience is.
It restrains our will.
And we don't like our well restrained. Each one of us would like to do what we would like to do. And even if we are obedient.
To mom or Dad or the government or in the Assembly, there is, naturally speaking, something about it that we kind of don't like.
Because it acts in restraint.
Upon our will.
I hope, if that's the best way we have tended to look at it, that when we're done this afternoon you will embrace the Word. Let's see. Thank God.
In order to see it, we're going to 1St and primarily actually probably spend most of our time looking at one man.
An obedient man.
There was one man who came into this world, and he lived life as you should. Yesterday we saw him as a man of prayer. Today we're going to look at him as a man of obedience. And as we trace his life yesterday in Luke and today in Luke, we are going to see it as a pattern. And as we go along, we'll make some applications to our own lives to see.
How important.
Obedience is.
Let's start out with reading a little bit in Philippians chapter 2.
Whippians, Chapter 2.
Verse five Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
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Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God?
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself.
And became obedient.
Unto death.
Even the doubts of the cross, his life as a perfect man.
The life of obedience that we will look at is a life that went all the way.
The ultimate price, you might say, that obedience could ever be called upon to pay, was obedient unto death.
Turn over to Psalm 40.
For we have him brought before us.
And this life that we're looking at of a perfect man.
Verse four, Blessed is the man, Psalm 40. Verse four, Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust.
Her sick sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire. Mine ears hast thou opened burnt offering, and sin offering hast thou not required? Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book. It is written of me. I delight to do thy will, O my God.
Yeah, thy law is within my heart.
This is Speaking of Lord Jesus.
And his becoming a man, the one that was found in fashion as a man.
And he said.
Icon.
In the volume of the book it is written of me.
Says in the New Testament to do thy will.
Oh my God, you speak tear of his ears being digged.
Ears have to do with hearing.
They also morally have to do with the will either half an ear to hear, let him hear, says and umm, so here where is a pair of ears of a man whose ears were always.
And ever open to the will of someone else.
Here's a man who lived without once exercising his own will.
In any way that was not identical.
To the will of the one.
So you see, to obey.
When you and the one you're obeying agree.
On what it is, it's to be done or not done.
At least it's a lot easier.
Uh, not completely naturally speaking that way because we don't want to be told even if we're gonna do. I know, I know, I know what you want and I wanna do it too, so I'll do it. But I really don't want you to have to be the one to tell me that. There's that spirit of self will in us by nature. But here was a man that came into the world.
And his ears were perfectly.
To do the will of another.
And further than that.
I delight.
To do thy will.
I'd like.
Does that sound like you?
I delight to do thy will.
I said I hope you want to embrace the word.
So I'm gonna say right here.
You do delight to do as well.
You do delight to do as well. There's not a single person in this room that belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ that has eternal life that does not delight to do as well.
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He made you.
A new creature in Christ Jesus to be like his Son.
And his son could say from the moment he came into the world.
I delight to do thy will, Oh my God, but we have a room here of people that.
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I hope can't say all but all that are.
Our children of God.
And God's children by nature, by nature, delight to do as well.
It's a good word to embrace. And so here is one who says I delight.
To do thy will, O my God.
You know the world has a lot of ways to find pleasure and delight, doesn't it?
And, uh, most of them.
Involves self wealth.
The pursuit of pleasure, of one sort in another, to bring happiness, to bring joy into the lives of those that live on.
In this planet.
But here's a man that came and did imperfection without failing in it, the will of God, and he found perfect pleasure in it. There was nothing in him.
That resisted.
That said.
Is God's will perfect? What?
Generally speaking, we'd all agree God's will is perfect, right? So isn't it nice to have a man who always wanted to do that one perfect will?
And did class. Yes, it cost him.
Cost him his life.
Did he shrink back from?
Being obedient or resistant? No, he didn't really.
But he recognized how expensive it was to himself to says he learned obedience by the things which he suffered in Hebrews chapter 5, because he he had to enter into the circumstances of life.
And in doing so, he to be a compassionate helper to us. Now he went through life as we have to go through life. And he in that process experienced how expensive it can be, if you will, how how hard it is maybe at times to have to go through that which involves obedience. But he did all the way.
And so he can perfectly sympathize with us when we face a situation where, even if can I say we want to, we feel hard to go forward and do what we believe is God's will.
In our lives.
He said Thy law is within my heart. It was his very nature.
The life called eternal life that God has given to you and I in its very nature.
His laws within our heart.
It's not something we try to get, it's not something that we produce.
It's the character of our life. He has put it in US, in our hearts.
And so it's something that we can with joy.
Carry out.
Stern to Luke's gospel now.
Chapter 2.
The way we're gonna look at this is we're just gonna start in Chapter 2 and then go to chapter three and four and five and so on, and look very briefly.
At at least one thing out of each chapter that expresses his life.
As obedient.
Chapter 2.
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And umm, verse 49.
Here's the Lord Jesus speaking as a 12 year old, I don't know, maybe there's a 12 year old in the room or somebody about that age. Here's the Lord Jesus when he's 12 years old and his parents have gone up to Jerusalem for the the feast. And now they started home and they get a day's journey on the way home and they discover that Jesus their son is missing from the collection of them that had gone down to Jerusalem from Nazareth. And so they go back to Jerusalem looking for their lost, lost to them at least, son.
They find him.
And he says to them in verse 49, How is it that ye sought me West, ye not, that I must be about my Father's business? And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man. Here's the here he is as a 12 year old.
And you might say they're already, umm, I don't want to say conflict, but there was already this matter of who do I obey, if you will, seemingly coming into his life and he perfectly.
Submits as a child to his parents, even though he knew who he was and he knew what his father's business was and he had started at that point in his life to.
Fulfill it to do it. But here's a subject. Obedience, child.
Perfect man, turn to chapter 3.
So I say we're just trying to trace the the pattern of his life more than the detail of it.
And chapter 3 and verse 21.
This is the baptism John the Baptist is baptizing here and the Lord Jesus has come to where John is baptizing. And in verse 21 it says Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized and praying, the heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him. And a voice came from the heavens and said.
Thou art my beloved son in thee.
I am well pleased, you know, as we know from the, uh, full account of this, that John the Baptist objected.
To the Lord being baptized, John the Baptist was the baptizer, and when the Lord came to him for baptism, John says to him.
You don't need it.
This is a baptism of repentance. This is a baptism that recognizes that we have been disobedient.
And, uh, John didn't understand at the time and, but he was told, well, you just let it be, uh, baptized me.
And so John baptizes him.
Only make this comment about it.
He identified himself.
In obedience with failure.
Even though he personally had not failed.
It's an important principle in God's things.
If we are to walk with God at this time in the present state of the church.
If any sense of what is being done, we will be willing to identify ourselves.
In obedience.
Where there's failure.
On our point, so we'll just stop with that suggestion to you. Let's turn over to Chapter 4.
We're going to spend a little more time here, so we're going to read verse three. And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone, that it be made bread. And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written that man shall not live by bread alone.
But by every word of God.
And the devil, taking him up into a high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
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And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them, for that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give it, If thou therefore will worship me, all shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan. For it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God.
And him only shalt thou serve.
And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence.
For it is written, He shall keep or give his angels charge over thee.
To keep thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. And Jesus answering, said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Here we have the Lord Jesus.
Perfect man.
Being tested.
About what?
Obedience.
The primary aspect here of the test or the temptation?
If he's to be the Redeemer, he must be a righteous man. To be a righteous man, he must be an obedient man.
And if he had not, if you will pass the test, there would have been no savior.
We wouldn't be in the room this afternoon because we wouldn't have anything to share together of importance.
The matter of obedience involves it is written.
All three answers that the Lord Jesus gives to the temptations presented to Him.
Have simply the character it is written.
God has spoken, it is written. Your life and mine of obedience depends.
On this book. Oh it's message to us.
It is written.
We are responsible to God for its what it says.
It is red.
Came across the other day and I'm going to read it because I probably couldn't paraphrase it from memory very accurately.
Umm, just happened. I shouldn't say it just happened. It was preordained to God that I would see it two days, three days ago.
Umm, I'm gonna read these words and.
I The point I want you to get out of the words is.
The importance of simple obedience to what God says and what it can preserve from.
This temptations of the Lord Jesus here are we call it subtle.
Clever.
Difficult Satan's way makes.
Bad look good.
Satan comes to us and has a kind of a What's the harm in that?
Way of presenting it, uh, something he's going to try to use uh.
He doesn't say fierce fire, jump into it. No, he's very subtle. He's often an Angel of light, or else he tries to work on us through fear and other means as well as subtlety. But here is particularly the subtlety that's involved, and I'm going to read these words.
Even a child.
Unacquainted with the ways of the world.
Speaking about the word of God, it says he need not know them.
It's not necessary to be well acquainted with all the subtle traps and ways of the world.
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4 Knowing the mind of the Lord through the Word, he avoids by simple obedience all the subtlety.
Of the enemy.
The bringing in of the authority of God in the Word sets aside our will.
Our wisdom.
We obey because we love him.
And we know it.
I can't say it better, I can't expect you to absorb it all that easily, so I'm going to read it again.
He need not know them. That is the ways of the world.
Knowing the mind of the Lord through the Word.
He avoids this by simple obedience, all the subtlety.
Of the enemy.
The bringing in of the authority of God in the Word sets aside our will.
Our wisdom.
We obey because we love him and we know him.
This is elsewhere in the Psalms.
Obedience. Well, I'll put it this way. Obedience is the secret to wisdom.
The world in Proverbs looks at the Christian or the one that follows the word of God and he says he is wise.
Is he wise because he's wiser by his way of thinking about things than his fellow man? Is he understanding because he has a a fundamental better way of looking at things? No, not that's not really the point.
The point is, God's wise, and if I obey God in simple obedience, the result of what I do will be what the wise thing is to do.
Sometimes we make life too complicated.
Because we think we have to figure it all out.
But in truth.
Simple obedience is the path of wisdom.
And in that.
Not the motive for being obedient, but it is a result. Happiness comes as a consequence.
Love it.
Something else I wanna bring out from this here?
Read the first one.
Again the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God.
Command this stone that it should be made bread.
What's the Lord Jesus is being tempted with here is you're the Son of God.
You have power.
If you'll just step outside of your place as an obedient man and exercise your power as God, you can meet your needs. You can have bread.
How does it apply to you?
And me.
Well.
God has made me a new creature in Christ Jesus.
A creature that can say, I delight to do thy will, O my God.
Satan says.
If you'll just step out of the place that you have now and the nature that God has given you and act like you once were as a child of Adam.
You can have this or that or the other.
But to disobey as a child of God, you have to do that.
You have to step out of your position, out of your place, out of your nature and go back and act.
As that man that was dead.
In Atom.
I want to show you that fact. We'll we're going to come back here, but just to umm, see the principle of it brought out in first John.
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First John, chapter 5.
And verse 18.
First John 518.
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not.
But he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not.
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
And we know that the Son of God is calm and hath an understanding that we may know Him that is true, and we are in Him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and the eternal life.
What's being said here is.
This is the life first John is describing, helping us to understand what we are as a new creation in Christ Jesus, and it's giving us what eternal life is.
And so here he's saying.
Whosoever is born of God, sinneth not what it is, is the life that we have in Christ. Eternal life doesn't sin. It's not in its nature to do so.
Furthermore, when it says.
He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not.
It's saying to us in that life.
Satan can try, he can tempt, but there's nothing in the nature that responds to the temptation.
Very important principle. Sometimes we think, well it was OK for the Lord Jesus to be tempted because, well, he was perfect and he didn't have a sinful nature.
But God says to you, I've given you his life.
You have it.
And Satan can't touch it.
You're no more tempted if you want to use it in that way. You're no more tempted by Satan than the Lord Jesus in that life.
Can't be tempted.
The wicked one touches not.
Man's in the way we talk about temptation. Yes, he's.
Pull back.
Into the old.
If the Spirit of God is not given His place to work in the new, he can be pulled back and then he has no power.
Whereas placing of the wicked one at that point.
OK.
Let's go back to John.
Let's go to chapter.
5.
John, Chapter 5.
Thank you. Thank you, John. Yes, Luke. Chapter 5.
Lord Jesus has been preaching. This one isn't so much the perfection of the Lord Jesus, but it's more connected with us.
Uh, Luke chapter 5 The Lord's been out fishing with in Simon's boat and he's finished the preaching and so now he.
Says to Peter he tells Simon to do something.
Simon recognized it, and so in verse four. And when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your Nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master. And in this case that word means teacher.
Teacher, we've toiled all night.
And have taken nothing, nevertheless that thy word I will let down the net.
Stop here for a minute.
Teacher.
You know how to teach. I know how to fish. I'm a fisherman. You're a teacher and you've been teaching and you've been saying nice and good things to us, and we appreciate that teacher.
But umm.
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I'm a fisherman and I fished all night. I know how to fish. It's my livelihood. This lake here been fishing on all my life nevertheless.
I do respect you.
So we'll.
We'll go halfway.
You say launch out into the deep. Well, we'll just put. We'll just do it right here. You say put down Nets. That's work.
So we're not going to do Nets, but we'll do a net and we'll put it down here.
So they do.
You know the result, I don't need to.
You know what? How significant this was.
Peter got converted that day. This is his salvation. This is his day of conversion.
And so he says something. I honestly must say I find part of what he said somewhat amusing per SE. Simon Peter saw it. That's the collection of fish. He falls down at Jesus feet, saying, depart from me.
I'm a sinful man. Oh Lord, where are they?
They're in a little boat out on the lake and Peter says depart from me.
But it it exposed Peter's heart at this point. And the most significant thing that he says is he doesn't say master anymore. He said Lord.
That afternoon or that day, Jesus became his Lord.
Far more important to him than a teacher.
And uh, what happens? Oh, it becomes obedient. Yes, he failed. He's like us. But verse 11 Says when they brought their ships to land, they forsook all.
And followed him. Follow me, they did.
Peter learned from that point on, he had to go to school multiple times to get the lessons like we do. But Peter's life changed at that point and he started to learn to live what he now had become a new man in Christ and he started to learn obedience in his life during chapter 6.
And, uh, verse 12.
And it came to pass in those days that he went out in the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called unto him his 12 disciples, and of them he chose 12. We had this yesterday.
But just in the flow here, gonna just briefly make the comment.
Lord Jesus.
There's a man praise, he's about to exercise an important matter and the will of God, and that is to that the right disciples be chosen. And so he expresses his dependence on God's will, that he do God's will and what he does, and he expresses it by his prayer. And when he has, can I put it this way, the answer from God, he acts upon it.
To do the will of God.
Chapter 7.
Verse 20 And when the men were come unto him, they said, John the Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying.
Art thou he that should come, or luckily for another? And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities, and plagues, and evil spirits. And unto many that were blind he gave sight. And Jesus answering, said unto them, Go your way until, John, what things you have seen and heard, and how that the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor to the poor the gospel is preached.
Uh, for the purposes this afternoon, I want to apply it this way and that is.
John had some uncertainty, uh, because of his personal trial and situation of having been put in prison. Was Jesus really the, the Messiah that he thought he was? He expected something different to be the outcome than where he found himself, if truly the one that come to liberate Israel. Uh, the Messiah, that was what he was called. Uh, and John here John finds himself after preaching himself in prison.
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And so he sends a message to ask for an way of affirming Are you really, really the one and.
The Lord's answer was tell John and then he describes things that Jesus others had seen, and John knew that Jesus was doing, which if looked at fulfilled what had been promised of the Messiah in the Old Testament.
Search the word.
The Lord Jesus Himself, when tested, knew the Word. It is said, it is said. It's important for us if we're going to be obedient to know, and to know requires knowing the Word.
Give it its due priority. You want to be happy? Give the word its priority and uh.
It's important. Let's go on to Chapter 8, our times getting along.
Chapter 8. Verse 15.
Here's the parable of the sower. We had something of the.
Many times the parable of the sore. I'm just going to read one verse, verse 15, and that on good ground are they which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it.
And bring forth fruit.
With patience.
There's the word.
And in our application here, there's the obedience to it, the keeping of it.
And what's the result?
Fruit.
With patience, keep that in mind and turn over to Romans chapter 5.
Romans, chapter 5.
And verse 19.
For by one man's disobedience.
Many were made sinners.
So by the obedience of one.
Mini.
Shall be made righteous.
Moreover, the law in earth that the offence might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
That as sin hath reigned unto death, Even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
One man.
Introduced disobedience.
Into the creation.
And everybody in this room has from birth been affected by that.
We were like our forefather.
Born in sin, shaping in iniquity Children, as it says elsewhere, of disobedience. We inherited the nature of our forefathers, and God characterizes it as children of disobedience.
One man came into the world.
I left obediently.
We saw in Luke 8.
Says Fruit.
Right, he did it.
Was this life fruitful?
There was one perfectly obedient life that's been lived in the history of man on earth.
A life that was lived in obedience.
Was it a fruitful life?
By one man's obedience, many.
Shall be made righteous.
Through that man's obedience. If you're a child of God, you sit in this room righteous.
Everybody in this room that's righteous before God.
Is righteous before God through the life and death, obedience unto death of one man.
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Do you want a life that's fruitful?
You know how to have it.
Do I have to spell it out?
Obedience.
Obedience.
Do it.
And with patience.
It will be a fruitful life.
Not instant gratification necessarily.
Or at all.
Disobedience. The will of the flesh once instant gratification.
The world is getting more and more engineered that way.
I haven't got out of it now, can't wait.
This life, sometimes obedience, involves patience. Embrace it. Embrace it, don't fight it.
But just go along with God's way.
So we see it here, right? Turn over to.
First Peter chapter one.
We quoted it, but we're just gonna read it.
First Peter chapter one, verse 14 as obedient children.
Or in the new translation, As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to the former, lost in your ignorance, but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy.
In all manner of conversation, because it is written.
Be ye holy, for I am holy.
Hardly think it needs any explanation.
I think it's simple and clear.
We were once.
Slaves of Satan under the power of the world system that he had established. That was described to us in the reading meeting.
And now he says, you're my children.
You're my new creation in Christ Jesus. Any man be in Christ. He's a new creation. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new.
2nd Corinthians 5 and so he says.
Don't fashion yourself.
On the old, embrace the new.
Liz the new.
So it's here.
New creation.
Obedience.
Notice first two connection with this first Peter chapter one verse two it says.
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience.
And sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.
Well, we the Spirit of God has worked to bring us under the value, the application, the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ which cleanses from all sin.
We stand proper before God is saved, and so on.
But I want to emphasize the other phrase in the verse.
Sanctified set apart.
By the of the Spirit.
To be obedient children.
To be fruitful for God.
In a sinful world.
To be to God's pleasure.
You know, lots of us in this room have children.
And one of the things that gives pleasure to the heart of a mother and father. And if you're still a child, listen up.
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One of the ways you give pleasure to mom and dad.
Just when you're obedient.
And one of the things that gives them Gray hairs.
This is disobedience.
You know when we obey.
We can have fellowship.
When we are disobedient, even though we're children, it Mars the enjoyment of fellowship together.
When there's a child in a disobedient state, fellowship's been interrupted.
I believe that's in part why God had such pleasure when he opens heaven and he can look down with pleasure on his obedience son, even in a situation which his son hadn't done anything wrong.
But he was identifying himself with those who had.
As a godly man, and he he.
He was baptized with the baptism of repentance, and it was a pleasure to the heart of God to see such extremity of obedience.
That he expresses it by opening heaven.
To so say.
Now for one last verse, turn over to 1St John chapter 2.
First, John.
And verse 8.
Uh, verse seven, brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which he had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning.
He's talking about life, eternal life here and what it is.
And he writes to his brethren and he says, you know, there's really not a new commandment. You could look at the life of the Lord Jesus and you could see that perfection of life in him, the perfect obedience one if you love me, He said, keep my commandments.
Not talking about the law here, I don't have time to explain the differences, but it's the spirit of submission to His will in everything and whatever he says is the law to the heart.
To and so here was the Lord Jesus, and they saw it in him. So he says to them, verse eight again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true lights now shining.
It was true in him. We've traced it a little bit in the time we've had this afternoon, he says. It's new. Well, what's new about it is it's now in you. That's what's new.
What was true in Him, in perfection is now in you.
And to be lived out in you.
God would delight to see all the pleasure that He had in His Son as an obedience son on earth lived out in everybody in this room.
When we're obedient, we with the right motive, we give pleasure to the heart of God.
Isn't that a worthy desire for your life? Some people say what's life all about? What's the purpose of life? Well, I'll give you 1 Satisfactory purpose to life. Live to give God pleasure.
Being obedient son or daughter.