OBEDIENCE IT THE ISSUE OF OUR HEARTS it is not allays about doing....for exaple:religious people are trying to obey by doing but their heart are far away from God.
'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. (Mat.15:8).
so i did a search in the bible about heart and i found more then 700 times talkes about heart...so i think God is trying to say something.
i was many times told to do something and i did obey physically,but deep in my heart i was rebellion...and it is not obedience it is passive rebellion....HELLO ???!!!!
and i tall you something my dear friend that this is the same sin like rebellion and
1Sa 15:23 Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey.
i am not perfect and i have problems with it because my heart is sick and bad
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
and some times i need to go to the Lord few times a day to ask forgivness
1Jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
but i will tell you a GOOD NEWS our heavenly Dady is going to give us a new heart pure and clean.....because Yeshua said that
Mat 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. "