Obedience is the Key to Christianity

        Jesus said that hearing His Word will not transform us, but it is in the doing and our walking out His Word that makes it work its power in us. 

        Also, James said, “What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead”. (James 2:14-23)

        This may be a hard saying for some, but there’s more to Christianity than church-going. We can’t gauge our Christianity by the number of DON’TS in our life. But rather by the number of DO’S of obedience to the standard of discipleship that Jesus gave us. 

        We’re to be the light of the Word, the salt of the earth. We’re to share His love and proclaim the good news, and even more, we’re to lay hands on the sick, cast out demons, cleanse the lepers and the list goes on. We’ve even heard of some believers who have been seeking out people that have been negatively affected by the Corona vaccinations, and have healed them in the name of Jesus… now, THAT is cool.

        If we’re not DOING the Word, we are then hearers ONLY, which Jesus warned against in Mt 7. He said, “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a WISE MAN who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a FOOLISH man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell and great was its fall” (Mt 7:24-27).

        If we’re not obeying the Word, we can’t be fulfilling our God-given destiny. The Gospel cannot stop with us… we’ve gotta pass on the good news. Christianity is more than a good set of morals. It’s a lifestyle of giving and sharing and loving. 

        Paul said, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God” (Rom 12: 1, 2).  That’s where our Christianity should start, a daily living sacrifice, that we may be the proof of God’s will (or destiny) for our life.

Checkout these few verses below. WOW. 

Makes you want to be a DOER.

Jn 14:21,23 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. 

Jn 15:14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

Jam 4:17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

1Jn 2:5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.

2Jn 1:6a This is love, that we walk according to His commandments.