The consciousness of a mission, the sense of filial obedience, the joyful surrender and harmonising of the will of the Son with the will of the Father; these things were the secret of the Master's life.
True, it was a necessity laid on Him by filial obedience, but also true, it was the necessity accepted by Him in pursuance of the impulse of His own heart.
As regards the grace of filial obedience, I am not aware of a definite break between the East and the West.
American youth, seem to be indifferent to filial obedience, 52, 53.
To an Oriental who has just come to this country, the American youth seem to be indifferent to filial obedience.
So the context gives us His perfect submission of will, and yet the need to harden His face toward externals from which, instinctively and without breach of filial obedience, His sensitive nature recoiled.
As much joy then as human nature was capable of from perfect purity, filial obedience, trust, and unbroken communion with God, so much was Jesus' permanent experience.
Mark then, that our Lord's recognition of this necessity for His suffering is, on the first and plainest aspect of it, His recognition that His suffering was necessary on the ground of filial obedience.
But yet that necessity grounded on filial obedience was no mere external necessity determined solely by the divine will.
The necessity was no external compulsion, driving Him to an unwelcome sacrifice, but one imposed alike by filial obedience and by brotherly love.
Subjection necessarily supposes protection; and paternal authority has the best claim to filial obedience, where benevolence endears dependance, and where conduct demands respect.
Her long epistolary controversy with Richardson, respecting 'Filial Obedience' generally, evidences great superiority of thought.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "filial obedience" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
