Title: Life Learning Obedience / Hebrews 5:8-10
Content Life Learning Obedience / Hebrews 05:08-10
Title: A Life of Learning Obedience
Text:Hebrews 05:08-10
Underwood's report consists of two main parts. First of all, it was the reality that Joseon was very dry at the time and people's hearts were tightly closed. There was a sense of desperation that they had come before a reality where there was no hope and no possibility at all. And the latter part confesses the wish of waiting for the day of grace that God will reveal to this nation. What really draws attention here is their determination to transform the gloomy reality into a future of grace. It is a confession of “I will obey the Lord”. It is the belief that the Lord begins the work when we are humble and obey. Obedience, no matter how dark the history, makes it the history of God.
God is the one who creates history and changes history through those who obey him. The Reformer Calvin said that the best attitude of a Christian is first to obey God's commands, secondly, obeying, and thirdly, obeying. Obedience is the attitude of a believer that believers should learn first. Those who do not learn obedience will never learn God. Those who do not learn obedience will never follow the Lord. Church and home are schools of obedience. If we do not learn obedience at church and at home, that society cannot receive God's blessing.
1. Obedience is learned through suffering.
Even though he was a son, he said that he learned obedience through what he suffered. This verse says that he learned obedience because he suffered. It is difficult to learn obedience because obedience can be learned through the process of suffering. If you look at the history of the people of Israel, they suffered hardships because they disobeyed God's word. Only when they are subjected to unspeakable sufferings from the Gentiles will they repeat the history of obeying God's Word. To learn obedience through suffering means that it is the most difficult to learn obedience.
All living things learn obedience through suffering. It is said that when taming an elephant, they first choose a five-year-old elephant. Wild elephants don't obey because they do what they want. So, if you tie an elephant to a pole and give it food to sleep without giving it anything to eat, if several people surround it with a long spear made of bamboo and stab it, it will get angry and raise its front paws high and howl at first. It is said that if you bully him every time he tries to sleep, the elephant will kneel in front of people and obey the orders. Elephants will never kneel in their consciousness until they lose their consciousness. It is only when an elephant abandons its consciousness that it becomes completely obedient to humans.
So is life. No one can be truly obedient as long as he is self-conscious. When we see people who obeyed God in the Bible, they are people whose consciousness is dead before God's word. If we look at Abraham's obedience, which can be seen as a symbol of obedience, we cannot do it with our own consciousness. The path that those who have killed their consciousness before the word of God can walk is the path of obedience. Jesus also walked the path of obedience by submitting his will to God's will.
Obedience may require his own death. So the Bible describes the cross as obedience. Obedience is something you have to beat yourself to obey above all else, but obedience becomes increasingly difficult if you cling to the idea of submitting yourself to others. Obedience appears to be an act toward others, but is actually an act of overcoming oneself. Because he cannot obey anyone who is still alive.
2. Obedience makes perfect.
In today's words, even though he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered, and when he was made perfect, he became eternal salvation to all who took care of him. This verse is translated as follows in the standard new translation of the Bible. Although he is a son, he learned obedience by suffering. And after being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him.
The maturity of a believer lies in obedience. The growth of the Christian life is learning obedience. Obedience is the most important scale for a person to check his/her own religious life. Through obedience, you can check your own spiritual maturity. Growing up in the life of faith means that the amount of obedience has increased and the attitude of obedience is more perfect. A person who has matured in faith is able to obey the things he was not able to obey in the past, and above all, he has the ability to overcome disobedience.
He said that the example that Christ set us is obedience. Therefore, to become like Christ is to change into a person of obedience. In the Bible, the people of Christ are called children of obedience. And he described those who belong to the devil as sons of disobedience. Also, when expressing a person belonging to Adam, it is expressed as a person of disobedience. Forsis said that the true purpose of life is not to find your freedom, but to find your master.
When the Bible divides people broadly, they are divided into obedient people and disobedient people. This obedience is not simply a description of a person's lifestyle. Obedience and disobedience contain the most essential themes of man. Obedience and disobedience are not a matter of living well or not, but a matter of life or death. To take the matter of obedience lightly is to take God lightly. (King Saul)
3. Obedience is God's way of saving mankind.
Today's Word explains the structure of this salvation. He said that the salvation accomplished by Jesus' obedience applies to those who have learned to obey and become obedient. The greatest blessing we enjoy as we become obedient is that we come to realize the salvation that Christ has accomplished in obedience. If you want to raise your children to be people of faith, you must raise your children to be people of obedience. People of disobedience cannot know salvation.
1 Peter 3:1-2 Wives, in the same way submit to your husbands, so that anyone who does not obey the way may be saved, not through words but through the deeds of their wives. In other words, it is saying that obedience is God's instrument to save people. Deuteronomy 28:62 Though you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, there will be few left because you do not obey the word of the LORD your God.