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Examples Of Obedience
Have you ever met someone who had traits you thought were marks of a Christian, but found out later the person was not a Christian? It is not all that unusual. At times, people, who do not know Jesus, keep their own moral standards more consistently than some Christians keep God’s standards.
The prophet Jeremiah ran into a group like that. He passed along to us a valuable lesson from observing them. They were a nomadic people called the Rechabites. Jeremiah used them as an example of obedience, although they were not among God’s chosen people. God commended them for their obedience.
For example, their forefathers had taught them that they should not drink wine. When Jeremiah offered it to them, the refused it (Jeremiah 35:5-6). He wanted to show the people of Judah what obedience looked like. God wanted the Jews to be as obedient to Him as the Rechabites were to their leaders.
Today we see unsaved people follow the morals they have set, while some Christians are not obedient to their Lord’s commands. Have we revived the hypocrisy of the Pharisees? God despises our disobedience. Let it not be said of us that the “Rechabites” of our day are more obedient than we are.
