"You don’t obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience."
--- Bob Sorge
What do you think? I never heard of Bob Sorge until this evening.
Dear one,
I don’t know who Bob Sorge is. When I consider what he said.
I consider from what we have heard:
“Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:”
II Peter 1:1 NKJV
dear one, we have obtained precious faith with apostles by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Dear one, we have obtained precious faith through the gospel of Jesus Christ, the righteousness of God, that is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written that the just shall live by faith.
In regard to obedience, this is what we have heard:
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? -Romans 6:16
So dear one,
when we offer ourselves to God to obey Him as slaves, we are slaves to God to obedience, which leads to righteousness of God.
So considering what Bob Sorge said,
You don’t obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience." Dear one, he doesn’t really explain how you obtain faith like the apostles of God. Also, I would not consider those who have the righteousness of the Pharisees have obtained the faith. For we heard:
For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 5:20
About obedience, Bob Sorge is not clear how you come to obedience clearly and where obedience leads to, in compared to what we have heard on Romans 6:16.
So dear one, let us abide in the words that Christ has spoken, His holy apostles and prophets in the Holy Scripture, for all scripture is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training us in righteousness.