11. What promise is given to those who obey God? Acts 5:32, last part.
NOTE: ‘He (Jesus) time after time spoke of obedience to His commands as the one condition of all further spiritual blessing. While the freedom of grace and the simplicity of faith have been preached, the absolute necessity of obedience and holiness has not been equally insisted on. The obedient must and may look for the fulness of the Spirit. A living obedience is indispensable to the full experience of the indwelling; the full experience of the indwelling is what a loving obedience may certainly claim. It is only when God’s will has been accepted as our only law, and the commands of Jesus are by the Holy Spirit written in the heart, that the glory of God can fill His temple.’ W. W. Prescott: The Gospel by John, page 43.
12. What promise is made to those who are obedient to God? Revelation 22:14.
NOTE: ‘The paradise of God, the home of the blessed! There all tears shall be wiped from off all faces! When Christ shall come the second time, to be “admired in all them that believe,” death shall be swallowed up in victory, and there shall be no more sickness, no more sorrow, no more death! A rich promise is given to us: “Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” Is not this promise rich and comforting to those who love God? And the promise is found in the garden of God’s word: “To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life.” Paul declares: “Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”’ Review & Herald, October 11, 1887.