Dictionary meaning of obedience
/əˈbiːdɪəns/
Compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another’s authority. Children were taught to show their parents obedience.
Synonyms: compliance, acquiescence, tractability, amenability.
Children were taught to show their parents obedience in the bible according to the Almighty God in His Commandments Exodus 20.12. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Obedience to God is the result of our true faith, love, loyalty and honesty to Him. It is the resulting output of believing, committing, and trusting in God’s word, with faith combined, these had made the trust already been established. God is to be obeyed.
The greater faith one has in God’s word, the more that faith will manifest in their observed behavior as obedience and the doing, the evangelizing and showing our appreciation of what Christ did on the cross. The truth of of God’s word and His love for mankind will always be there for eternity.
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Obedience is better than sacrifice
According to the Almighty God, obedience is better than sacrifice
1 Samuel 15.22 & 23
22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
That is why the bible, God’s words are for every human being to read and obey Him-God. Only the Almighty God can show His true love, in the making of Himself into His only begotten son in order to have flesh and blood to die on the cross, shedding His precious blood for the remission of our sins. The utmost price for love, done by the real, the one and only God Almighty. Obedience is the master of love. God Himself demonstrated what He want from mankind, that is obedience to the words of the Almighty God is showing our true and utmost love for Him.
