when Christ is about to bestow a blessing, He often gives a command. The flesh does not take well to commands, however. It wants to have privileges without responsibilities. It wants to have the benefits of obedience without being obedient; it wants to have the benefits of being faithful without being faithful. But God will have none of that thinking. And His miracles will not encourage such characterless attitudes. So some of Christ’s miracles have commands associated with them which must be obeyed
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