Obedience or Independence?
If you love Me, keep My commandments —John 14:15
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was born in Scotland and spent much of his boyhood there. His ministry of teaching and preaching took him for a time to the United States and Japan. The last six years of his life were spent as principal of the Bible Training College in London,and as a chaplain to British Commonwealth troops in Egypt during World War l. After his death, the books which bear his name were compiled by his wife from her own verbatim shorthand notes of his talks.
If you love Me, keep My commandments —John 14:15
Do you not know that . . . you are not your own? —1 Corinthians 6:19
If you have faith as a mustard seed . . . nothing will be impossible for you —Matthew 17:20
Without faith it is impossible to please Him . . . —Hebrews 11:6
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him —2 Corinthians 5:21
If when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life —Romans 5:10
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations . . . —Matthew 28:19
Jesus said to them again, ’. . . As the Father has sent Me, I also send you’ —John 20:21
I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some —1 Corinthians 9:22
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