Greg continues discussing the most vital issue of obeying God. He describes how every act of obedience sends God a fourfold message: we believe Him, submit to His lordship, fear Him, and love Him. In this episode we discuss in detail how obedience shows God we fear Him – or stand in awe of His awesomeness; and love Him – in the truest, surest way possible. Without obedience, our worship, praise, and service is rendered meaningless – empty religious hypocrisy. We learn also of the disease of religious compensation: service, worship, or sacrifice offered God in hopes of compensating Him for our not doing what He asked of us. And we identify its simple but effective antidote. It is Mary’s wisdom: “Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it” (John 2:5).

Greg examines numerous biblical texts that reveal the vital importance of obedience. Our obedience is the manifest response of our entire being to God. More than anything else, it reveals the true inward state of our souls. And it sends Christ a multi-layered message: we believe Him; we have submitted to His Lordship; we fear (stand in awe of) Him; and we love Him. Additionally, not our religious talk but our actual walk – our real life-actions – are being placed on the scales of God’s eternal judgment daily and will one day determine our eternal rewards, or loss of rewards, at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

Greg discusses the amazingly deep, intimate fellowship Moses had with God 3,500 years ago and declares the same is available to us today if we, too, will only “come up into the mount” of devotion and “be there” in sustained, deep fellowship with God daily (Exodus 24:12). He also describes three levels of intimacy with God presented in Exodus 24: the summit life, which Moses experienced; the mount life, which the 70 elders knew; and the plain life, where Israel’s millions, sadly, chose to live. Are we Christians of the plain, mount, or summit?