Our 'obedience' to Jesus' word would then consist in our rejecting simple obedience as legalistic obedience, in order to be obedient "in faith." This is the difference between us and the rich young man. In his sadness, he is not able to calm himself by saying to himself, In spite of Jesus' word, I want to remain rich, but I will become inwardly free from my riches and comfort my inadequacy with the forgiveness of sins and be in communion with Jesus by faith." Instead, he went away sadly and, in rejecting obedience lost his chance at having faith. The young man was sincere in going away, He parted from Jesus, and this sincerity surely had more promise than a false communion with Jesus based on disobedience.
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