Our love for God, expressed through our obedience to Him, is to be a response to His love, not a means of earning it. So one clear evidence that we are living by grace is a loving obedience to the commands of God. Anyone who thinks, Since God’s love is not conditioned on my obedience, I am free to live as I please, is not living by grace, nor does he understand grace. What he perceives as grace is really a caricature of grace. Jesus said that if we love Him, we will obey His commands. Now a command
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