The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.
Interpretation
Faith and obedience are two interconnected aspects of belief and action.
This quote emphasizes the intrinsic relationship between faith and obedience. It suggests that true faith will naturally result in obedient actions, and likewise, genuine obedience stems from a foundation of faith. Tozer highlights that these two concepts are not separate but rather complementary, ultimately suggesting that one cannot authentically exist without the other.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of living out one's faith through actions.
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, βWhat is God like?β and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.
Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.
Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.
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