The Business of Obedience

John Owen Temptation

After calling Christians to store up gospel treasure in their hearts, John Owen provides the normative response of such a heart – universal obedience:

He that, having a due acquaintance with the gospel in its excellencies, as to him a word of mercy, holiness, liberty, and consolation, values it, in all its concernments, as his choicest and only treasure,–makes it his business and the work of his life to give himself up unto it in universal obedience, then especially when opposition and apostasy put the patience of Christ to the utmost,–he shall be preserved from the hour of temptation.

– Owen, Overcoming Sin & Temptation, 211-212.