“Be Obedient to God, Step 2” – Rabbi Steve Weiler (07/25/2026)

So, You know, the evidence of a true believer in Yeshua is a changed life, transformation.

Again, what Wellington was talking about.

The evidence of our change is marked by our obedience to the Lord.

That's how I think we know that we've really changed because we are submitting ourself.

We are obedient to the Lord.

This requires us actually to start doing certain things we don't necessarily want to do and stop doing things that we kind of would like to keep going with.

But God is changing us and each one is different.

You and I are different.

I have to change things that you don't have to change and you have to change things that I don't have to change.

But it's all about God.

And the reason we change, the real reason we change, I believe, is not because we know God necessarily and not because we trust him and trust his word.

But I believe the reason we change is because of his love for us.

When we sense his love, we want to do anything for him.

And in 1 John 5, 3, it says this, For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome.

So it's easy to say yes to God, because it's God.

And 2 Corinthians 5, 14 and 15 says, for the love of Messiah compels us since we have concluded that one died for all.

As a result, all died.

And he died for all so that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

So we see the love involvement here and the sacrifice of Yeshua was the proof of the love that we have engaged in now that we know the Lord.

And for that love, understanding that he died for us and was raised, we now love.

And that love compels us to do what he has asked us to do.

We're no longer living for ourselves.

We've died with him in that sense, not physically, but we're willing to die in other ways.

And so that's the source of our obedience.

Based on God's love for us, we now have the desire to be obedient.