As Pastor Sonny explained in our previous discussion on Philippians 2, Paul says that the proper kind of godly obedience is not merely just doing what we think God wants us to do, but to joyfully do everything that God tells us to do without grumbling or disputing. Now Paul closes out chapter 2 by […]
As we see in chapter 2 of Paul’s letter to the Philippians, a life worthy of the Gospel of Christ is a life of humble and joyful obedience to the will and commands of God, because the Christian knows that God is and will be faithful to fulfill all of His promises in Christ.
Brother Jon speaks on the necessity of recognizing God as the Holy Authority directing us in our obedience, and not merely obeying for the sake of obeying and therefore only obeying God incompletely and half-heartedly. The example for this is Saul’s incomplete obedience to God in 1 Samuel 15:1–9.