Now, getting closer to the point of this discussion, our faith is shown in our effort to obey--which then unlocks heaven's storehouse of blessing and strength to help us obey more perfectly.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

"The religious services, the prayers, the praise, the penitent confession of sin ascend from true believers as incense to the heavenly sanctuary; but passing through the corrupt channels of humanity, they are so defiled that unless purified by blood, they can never be of value with God. They ascend not in spotless purity, and unless the Intercessor who is at God’s right hand presents and purifies all by His righteousness, it is not acceptable to God. All incense from earthly tabernacles must be moist with the cleansing drops of the blood of Christ. He holds before the Father the censer of His own merits, in which there is no taint of earthly corruption. He gathers into this censer the prayers, the praise, and the confessions of His people, and with these He puts His own spotless righteousness. Then, perfumed with the merits of Christ’s propitiation, the incense comes up before God wholly and entirely acceptable", sda bible commentary 6:1078... {1SM 344.2}

The pastor who fulfills his high commission must give his people faithful instruction on every point of the Christian faith, showing them what they must be and do in order to stand perfect in the day of God. He only who is a faithful teacher of the truth will at the close of his work be able to say with Paul, "I am pure from the blood of all men." {AA 393.4}

The Corinthian believers needed a deeper experience in the things of God. They did not know fully what it meant to behold His glory and to be changed from character to character. They had seen but the first rays of the early dawn of that glory. Paul's desire for them was that they might be filled with all the fullness of God, following on to know Him whose going forth is prepared as the morning, and continuing to learn of Him until they should come into the full noontide of a perfect gospel faith. {AA 307.2}

Is perfect obedience a requirement of the New Covenant or a promise? If it is a requirement, from whom is it required? If it is a promise, by whom and to whom is it promised?

Even our prayers need to be cleansed before they are acceptable. Passing through our corrupt humanity everything we do is defiled.

1. Is perfect obedience a requirement of the New Covenant or a promise?
2. If it is a requirement, from whom is it required?
3. If it is a promise, by whom and to whom is it promised?

Even our prayers need to be cleansed before they are acceptable. Passing through our corrupt humanity everything we do is defiled.

Green - you speak Old Covenant, where the people promised to keep the law, and our promises are ropes of sand.

The new-covenant promise is, "I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them." Hebrews 10:16. While the system of types which pointed to Christ as the Lamb of God that should take away the sin of the world was to pass away at His death, the principles of righteousness embodied in the Decalogue are as immutable as the eternal throne. Not one command has been annulled, not a jot or tittle has been changed. Those principles that were made known to man in Paradise as the great law of life will exist unchanged in Paradise restored. When Eden shall bloom on earth again, God's law of love will be obeyed by all beneath the sun. {MB 50.2}