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  THE LIFE OF OBEDIENCE
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of making a resolve to
obey God's commands and following His voice with all heart and soul.

Topics: "Obedience To God", "Righteous Living"
Scripture References: Deuteronomy 16:20, Deuteronomy 26:16, Proverbs 3:5, Romans 7:19, James 4:17, 1 John 1:9

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of following what is just
and righteous to experience a fulfilling life, as commanded by the Lord
in Deuteronomy 16:20. She urges believers to wholeheartedly keep and do
God's statutes and judgments, with all their heart and soul, as
instructed in Deuteronomy 26:16. Tileston echoes Frederick Temple's
warning against ignoring the clear voice of conscience and the command
of duty, emphasizing the need to discern between right and wrong.
Furthermore, she highlights Jean Nicolas Grou's teaching on the
necessity of making a firm resolve to never deliberately give in to
faults, act against conscience, or refuse God's requirements, laying a
strong foundation for a spiritual life despite inevitable
inadvertencies.

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That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live.

DEUTERONOMY 16:20

This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and
judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul.

DEUTERONOMY 26:16

NEVER pass by or palter with the clear voice of conscience, with the
plain command of duty; never let it be doubtful to your own soul whether
you be-long to the right side or wrong, whether you are a true soldier
or a false traitor. Never deliberate about what is clearly wrong, and
try to persuade yourself that it is not.

FREDERICK TEMPLE

The first resolve of one who gives himself wholly to God must be never
to give way deliberately to any fault whatever; never to act in defiance
of conscience, never to refuse anything God requires, never to say of
anything, It is too small for God to heed. Such a resolution as this is
an essential foundation in the spiritual life. I do not mean but that in
spite of it we shall fall into inadvertencies, infirmities, errors; but
we shall rise up and go on anew from such faults--because they are
involuntary, the will has not con-sented to them.

JEAN NICOLAS GROU

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