It is only problematic if we fail to understand that what we ARE called to obey is no longer the word and command of God through the Law given to man through Moses but the word and command of God given through Christ Jesus Himself which does not contradict the Mosaic Law, it supersedes and SURPASSES it.
Hebrews 5:9
and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him
Regards Misty
If you want to continue to believe that you must do good works to stay saved.....go right ahead my friend. It is your choice but you can not use Hebrews 5:9 to claim it as you did here.
The Greek word here in Heb. 5:9 ...."OBEY"....is translated as "TO LISTEN, to ACCEPT".
Jesus said in John 5:24.....
"Verily, verily I say unto you, he that hearth my Word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life".
The Lord Jesus also said that "IT IS FINISHED"----and that means He has done everything necessary to make salvation possible for humanity. To believe then that we must DO SOMETHING, or OBEY the Law to stay saved IMO is a lack of understanding the process of the "grace of God" in salvation.
All know and understand that Sin is the transgression of God's Law. In order for God's holiness to be met, there had to be ONE to make propitiation for the sins of the people to satisfy God concerning His Law...........
Isaiah 42:21...
"The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness sake: He will magnify the Law and make it honourable".
It was divinely imperitive that God's Law be perfectly kept, perfectly obeyed, every jot and every tittle, in word and in deed. Therefore, Jesus was made under the Law and being made under the Law, born of a woman, HE fulfilld every jot and every title OF the Law.
Galatians 4:4-5........."But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."
Matthew 5:17..........."Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil".
Now then.....when the unbeliever hears the Gospel and puts his faith and trust in the finished work of Jesus, the perfect obedience of Christ is then imputed to that believer.....
Romans 5:19..........."For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."
We, all humans are saved by God's grace through FAITH. The part of the sinner is to believe and therefore our salvation DEPENDS SOLELY ON THE
OBEDIENCE OF THE ONE WHO DIED TO REDEEM US; THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. Righteousness for men is not attained by anything we can or must do or earn but is IMPUTED to us through Christ. So then it is what He did......
NOT ANYTHING WE MUST DO!!!
However, the magnifying of the Law involved more than keeping every jot and tittle. The penalty on behalf of sinners must be suffered, and the fact is that Jesus paid our penalty.
Galatians 3:13........"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree".
Christ offered Himself and in offering Himself He presented to God a sacrifice which met EVERY REQUIREMENT OF THE LAW, every requirement of God's holiness and justice and He did this offering to God as Priest. This is basis of God's grace for salvation and if we think that we must DO something to get saved or stay saved, we have in fact have not grasped the concept of grace.
YES.......Christianity can be summed up in one word......OBEDIENCE. NOT of anything that needs to be achieved by works, but as the act of hearing the WORD of God, hearing the WORD that brings faith and faith then exercised in the FINISHED work of Jesus which brings salvation.HE is the Author of eternal salvation, the Author of our faith and apart from Him there is no salvation.
Now is you choose to believe you need to DO works, or anything to stay saved......it is your choice NOT God's requirement.
Ephesians 2:8-9......"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."