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Originally Posted by OBW
These are all true verses. But they are not the starting point...
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OBW,
In many ways simplicity is more advantageous than complexity. The simplicity of Christ, that we should be like innocent children, that we should
be like Mary not Martha, these are all examples of simplicity.
In nature are many examples of big things coming from simplicity. Trees grow from a simple seed, etc.
Regarding obedience, I'm thinking that your understanding of God's economy falls short and leads you to believe it is somehow against obedience or does not follow obedience.
God's economy is basically trusting and obeying God, by God dispensing Himself into us.
Everyone who has been saved, has been saved because of their obedience to the gospel. So obedience precedes God's economy.
Subsequently, when God's economy causes that person to obey God in some matter or do some good work, that is obedience as a result of God's economy.
If a person obeys God, God will dispense more of Himself into them, therefore this is obedience preceding God's economy.
We can see that God's dispensing is a continual flow or two-way thing between man and God.
It was only a few weeks ago actually that in the meeting we discussed the importance of obedience to God.
"Not caring for right or wrong" - is in the context for obeying God. In other words we obey God not by our own effort of following rules, legalistically, but by following the Spirit.
In the bible some people accused Paul of teaching licentiousness because he emphasized grace. Lee did not teach licentiousness, rather he emphasized God's economy over human effort. The cause of both licentiousness and legalism is in fact our fallen human nature. The solution is God's economy.