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Now, he says here, obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Some people will misunderstand this obedience here, and they'll think, well, obedience, that means I have to follow the commandments in the Bible in order to be saved. I got to have obedience to the commandments, but that's actually not what this is talking about. In fact, if you'll jump down to verse 22 of this chapter, he says, seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently. Notice he says obeying the truth. He didn't say obey the commandments. He didn't say obeying the law of Moses. He said obeying the truth. What does it mean to obey the truth? Well, keep your finger here. Go back to 2 Thessalonians chapter one. The Bible says in 2 Thessalonians chapter one, beginning in verse eight, inflaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, watch this, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. So we've seen obeying the truth. Now we're seeing obeying the gospel who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired in all them that believe, because our testimony among you was believed in that day. So notice these two parallel statements in verse 10. He should come to be glorified in his saints and be admired in all them that believe, because guess what? Those that believe are the saints, and those that are the saints are those that believe. And those who believe and those that are the saints are those that believe. And those that are the saints, you know what they are? They're the ones who obey the gospel. So those who obey the gospel are the saints, the believers. The people who don't obey the gospel are the people that are the unbelievers that are not the saints. Now stop and think about this. What is the gospel? The gospel is the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that he was buried and that he rose again. How do you obey that good news? By not stealing? Is that how you obey that? The obedience to the gospel, the obedience to the faith, the obeying of the truth is that you believe it. So when the Bible says that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life, that's good news. How do you obey that? By believing. When the Bible commands you, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved, you obey it. So don't add in the idea of obeying commandments or obeying the laws. No, what the Bible's teaching for salvation is obeying the gospel, obeying the truth, which has to do with believing on the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior.