Conflicts of Obedience – The Law of God: Question and Answers

Conflicts of Obedience
The Law of God: Question and Answers

The Law trumps all other demands for obedience.

Question: Who must obey the Law of God?

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.” Acts 5:29

Obviously, not all men are going to obey the Law of God. Not even all Christians.

Those who choose the path of obedience, and the favor and goodness to be known there, will find themselves in conflict with those who deny or despise God and His Law, or who do not find obedience convenient for one reason or another.

At such times, should the believer simply “go with the flow”?

What would Peter and the apostles say?

In this world we must expect opposition, even persecution, but such will only be the case when we are consistently walking in the Light as He is in the Light, keeping, proclaiming, and teaching all the counsel of God, beginning with His Law.

You are called to God’s Kingdom and glory, and the Law of God provides the guardrails and signposts of the path to those ends. Will you walk it?

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T. M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.