We are to bear the stamp of Christ's likeness. We are to take seriously our right relationship to God and to His commandments. A will that is contrary to God's law can only destroy us at last. The unconverted and unsanctified are geared to a warped idea of freedom from obedience to the will of God. The result is moral and spiritual deterioration.
Men become less and less capable of seeing the truth and walking in it.
They become full of hearing the Word of God. They find it increasingly difficult to clear the moral and spiritual air and return to the truth of God. Christ strictly obeyed His heavenly Father and kept His commandments. The presence of Christ in our lives is always a power to obey and never to disobey. At the very heart of the gospel there lies not only the invitation to come to Christ but also a summons to obedience.