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1 John Chapter 2

One author pointed out three ascending motives for obedience.  Fear . . . duty . . . love.  

 Obeying because we have to – that’s fear;         Obeying because we need to – that’s duty;   Obeying because we want to – that’s love. 

A slave obeys because he has to – out of fear.  

An employer obeys because he needs to – out of duty; he might even dislike his job, but he needs his paycheck. 

A Christian obeys because he wants to – out of love.  

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“To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.” 
                                                     C.S. LewisMere Christianity

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