Who obeys the Gospel ?
Isa 50:10
10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Those who obeys the voice of God's Servants, such as the Apostles, the Preachers of the Gospel were Rom 1:1
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
And as when this Gospel Servant commanded the Philippian Jailor to Believe on Christ as Per Acts 16:30-31
30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
The word believe here is the greek word Pisteuo and means:
to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in
a) of the thing believed
1) to credit, have confidence
b) in a moral or religious reference
1) used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul
2) to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith
3) mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith
2) to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity
a) to be intrusted with a thing
The word also means to commit !
As well in the Acts 16:31 reference it is an imperative in the greek:
Now who is it that obeys the voice of the Apostles or the other Gospel Servants ? It is those fearing the Lord ! Isa 50:10
10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
The Phillipian Jailor was at that time one that feareth the Lord by New Birth, and was in darkness as to the way of Righteousness or Salvation.
However, now being also born again, given a New Heart and Spirit, he could obey the voice of the servants of God, and believe on, commit to Jesus Christ.
When God's Fear is put into our hearts, then we depart from evil Prov 14:16
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Prov 16:6
6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.
Such a one must be the Jailor to obey the voice of Paul, the commissioned Servant of Jesus Christ 2 Cor 5:20, Such Persons to obey this command of the Gospel must fear God, and that by New Birth, because we men do not fear God by Nature according to scripture here Rom 3:18
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
So it is those who have been given a New Heart by New Birth that obeys the Gospel Ezk 36:26-27294
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
