>>If the Master says to love one another, that’s the work we must do. If He says to confess Him before men, that’s what is required, so we submit and do it. If He says to assemble together on the Lord’s Day, proclaim His death with the memorial of the bread and the cup, sing songs of praise to God and of teaching to one another, we obey. If He tells husbands to love their wives, wives to submit to their husbands, children to obey their parents, it’s because that’s the work He wants from us.
A lot of people think that the narrow path requires you to be perfect in all these things. If you could do that, you would be the Master.
>>Who is going to refuse to obey and still call himself a disciple? Who’s going to rebel against the King and still think he’ll be allowed into the kingdom?
Refusing to do is quite different from trying and falling short (literally missing the mark, which is the meaning of sin.)
>>And why does the disciple do this? Because he has faith in his Master.
And that is all there is to it.