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  2. Sep 17, 2024 · Jesus’ active obedience is His perfect obedience to God’s law. Jesus’ passive obedience is His paying the penalty for our failure to obey God’s law.

  3. Nov 30, 2018 · The perfect active obedience of Christ means that all who trust in Him have full citizenship in the kingdom of God. We do not need to be afraid that there is anything lacking in us if we have trusted in Christ alone, for His obedience covers us and guarantees our salvation.

  4. Apr 18, 2002 · Theologians often distinguish between Jesus’ active obedience (His perfect observance of all the law of God while He lived on earth as a man) and His passive obedience (His submission to the cross, where He took on the punishment for the sins of His people).

  5. These two kinds of obedience - Christ's active obedience qualifying Him to die for sinners and providing a righteousness for them that is not their own, Christ's passive obedience taking the wrath of God on their behalf - are inseparable for our salvation.

  6. Jan 6, 2016 · Christ’s active obedience speaks of his obeying the law of God perfectly in our place throughout his life – an active, positive righteousness that is imputed or accounted to believers. In Christ’s passive obedience we have the payment demanded so that our sins can be fully forgiven.

  7. Some people hold that the term “active obedience” refers to the fact that Christ kept the law in order to demonstrate His sinlessness, a Lamb without spot or blemish. This position is expressed in Article VIII, “Salvation,” in the GARBC

  8. Christ is supremely active at, and on, the cross. He obeyed even to the extent of dying. No one took his life from him. He laid it down of his own accord, actively and voluntarily, in response to the commandment he had received from the Father (John 10:18).