Deuteronomy 8:1. All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
Observe, dear friends, that the Lord demands of his people universal obedience to his commands: "All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do." Christians, although they are not under the law, are under the sweet constraints of love; and that love incites them to complete obedience, so that they desire to leave undone nothing which the Lord commands. And this obedience is to be careful as well as complete: "All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do;" not only do them, but do them with care. When the commandment applies to a certain duty, obey it in full, both in the letter and in the spirit, for there are numerous and weighty blessings attached to obedience, - not of merit, but of grace. If we walk carefully in the fear of God, we shall find that in keeping his commandments there is great reward.
Deuteronomy 8:1. All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
Observe, dear friends, that the Lord demands of his people universal obedience to his commands: "All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do." Christians, although they are not under the law, are under the sweet constraints of love; and that love incites them to complete obedience, so that they desire to leave undone nothing which the Lord commands. And this obedience is to be careful as well as complete: "All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do;" not only do them, but do them with care. When the commandment applies to a certain duty, obey it in full, both in the letter and in the spirit, for there are numerous and weighty blessings attached to obedience, - not of merit, but of grace. If we walk carefully in the fear of God, we shall find that in keeping his commandments there is great reward.