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Today's Early Church Wisdom
“God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and now we have left the state. We have renounced all the things the world offers…. The gods of the nations are demons.”
~ Justin the Martyr (100AD – 165AD)
This week's Psalm is Psalm 31 'My Rock, My Shield, My Song'

Perfect Submission

Bible commentators have noted that the meaning of the term dikaiosynē (righteousness) includes “compliance with everything enjoined” and active participation in God’s redemptive order. At the Jordan, Jesus, though sinless, steps into a baptism of repentance to identify with humanity and inaugurate His mission, embodying what one commentary summarises as doing “all that God requires” and modelling obedient submission. What a wonderful thought: “All” that God requires! Here we see a righteousness that is not passive purity but lived obedience. This is what John Gill describes as fulfilling both moral and appointed duties under the Father’s will, and what B. W. Johnson frames as “perfect obedience” expressed in action. The greatest power comes with the greatest love and submission to God. He gave His all for us, let us give our all for Him.