Obedience is the topic because my dog Domino needs to obey me when I tell him to do something.
I sometimes want my dog to stop being disobedient. God wants his creation to do the same thing. We as human beings are an example of how on the one hand we are requiring that pets be obedient to us and how on the other hand we are not being obedient to God. Looking up the word Obey we find this definition.
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Obey
Old Testament
Verb: שָׁמַע (samaʿ), GK 9048 (S <H8085>), 1165x. samaʿ means “to hear, listen, pay attention to, perceive, obey, proclaim, announce.” See hear.
Verb: שָׁמַר (samar), GK 9068 (S <H8104>), 468x. Often translated “to keep,” the verb samar bears three distinct but related meanings in the OT: “to guard, tend,” “to watch over,” and “to preserve” (see keep). It is especially used with idea of “obeying, heeding, keeping a covenant. “God said to Abraham, ‘Now as for you, you shall obey my covenant’ ” (Gen. 17:9). samar expresses the careful devotion and action that is necessary in order to fulfill the covenant obligations.
New Testament
Verb: τηρέω (tereo), GK 5498 (S <G5083>), 70x. tereo conveys the idea of watching over something closely or guarding—“to keep, obey; guard, protect.” See guard, keep, protect.
Verb: ὑπακούω (hypakouo), GK 5634 (S <G5219>), 21x. hypakouo means “to obey, do what one is told to do.”
(1) The winds and the sea do what Jesus tells them to do (Mt. 8:27; Mk. 4:41; Lk. 8:25). The unclean spirits likewise obey his commands (Mk. 1:27). Jesus explains to the disciples that if they have faith, their commands will be obeyed—even if they were to command a mulberry tree to be uprooted and planted in the sea (Lk. 17:6). Rhoda “came to answer” when Peter was knocking at the door (Acts 12:13). Christians are not to obey the desires of their bodies; when our bodies tell us to sin, we must refrain from obeying (Rom. 6:12). Note Paul’s principle: “You are slaves to the one whom you obey” (Rom. 6:16). Paul commands children “to obey [their] parents in the Lord” (Eph. 6:1; Col. 3:20). Slaves likewise are commanded “to obey [their] earthly masters” as they would obey Christ (Eph. 6:5; {see blog item below} Col. 3:22). Paul writes that the Philippians have always obeyed him (Phil. 2:12). Paul expects his written instructions to be obeyed (2 Thess. 3:14). Jesus becomes the source of eternal salvation to all those who obey him (Heb. 5:9). Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to another land (Heb. 11:8), and Sarah obeyed Abraham (1 Pet. 3:6).
(2) At points people are described as becoming obedient to the gospel or to the faith, which mean that they have obeyed the call to repent and believe and submit themselves to the lordship of Christ. “A large number of priests became obedient to the faith” (Acts 6:7). “Thanks be to God because you were slaves of sin, but you obeyed from the heart the form of teaching to which you were entrusted” (Rom. 6:17). Paul writes in Rom. 10:17 that “not all the Israelites accepted the good news.” Jesus will deal out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who “do not obey the gospel” of Christ (2 Thess. 1:8). See NIDNTT-A, 578.*
Verb: φυλάσσω (phylasso), GK 5875 (S <G5442>), 31x. phylasso means to “guard” physically or to “keep” in the sense of obeying. It can denote a careful observance of divine or human law. See keep.--Mounce, William D.[1]
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Eph 6:5 in the above text block says this in Mounce NT
Ephesians 6:5 Mounce Reverse-Interlinear New Testament (MOUNCE)
5 ·ho Slaves, obeyhypakouō yourho earthlykata sarx masterskyrios withmeta fearphobos andkai tremblingtromos, withen sincerityhaplotēs ofho yourhymeis heartkardia, ashōs though obeying ·ho ChristChristos,--Mounce NT [2]
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