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  LOVE EXPRESSED IN OBEDIENCE
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: The true test of love is our obedience to Christ's
commandments, and many are denying the Word of God by rejecting or
interpreting His words in a way that conforms to their theories.

Topics: "Faith in Action", "Love and Obedience"

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DESCRIPTION
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A.W. Tozer emphasizes that love for Christ is intrinsically linked to
obedience to His commandments, asserting that true love is demonstrated
through our willingness to follow His teachings. He critiques the
contemporary evangelical perspective that downplays the significance of
Christ's commandments, warning that such views can lead to a rejection
of the Word of God. Tozer calls for a reevaluation of how believers
perceive their relationship with Christ, urging them to recognize that
obedience is a vital expression of love. He highlights the importance of
adhering to Christ's teachings as a measure of genuine faith.

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CONTENT
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Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically
united, that the keeping of His sayings would prove that we loved Him
and the failure or refusal to keep them would prove that we did not.
This is the true test of love, and we will be wise to face up to it. The
commandments of Christ occupy in the New Testament a place of importance
that they do not have in current evangelical thought. The idea that our
relation to Christ is revealed by our attitude to His commandments is
now considered legalistic by many influential Bible teachers, and the
plain words of our Lord are rejected outright or interpreted in a manner
to make them conform to theories ostensibly based upon the epistles of
Paul. Thus the Word of God is denied as boldly by evangelicals as by
admitted modernists.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/love-expressed-in-obedience/
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