AC 9311 - "To Hear"; AC 9312 - To Comply

AC 9311 - "To Hear"

"To hear," (Exodus 23:22) in the Word,
means not merely to hear in simplicity,
but also to receive in the memory and to be instructed,
likewise to receive in the understanding and to believe,
and also to receive with obedience and to do.

AC 9312 - To Comply

And do all that I speak.
(Exodus 23:22)

That this means compliance from faith and love,
is evident from the meaning of "doing what I speak,"
as being to live in accordance with
what the Lord has taught in the Word;
for the things Jehovah speaks
are those which the Word teaches,
thus which the Lord teaches,
who is the Word (John 1:1-2, 14).
To live according to these things
is to comply with them from faith and love.
Compliance from faith and love is living compliance,
because it has in it life from faith and love.
The case with compliance is the same
as with every deed of a person.
In the deed of a person there is nothing living
except love and faith.
All other things of life,
have life from and according to these;
for the life of love and faith is life from the Lord,
who is life itself.
This life is the life of heaven,
and of all who become angels.
It is the same with compliance.