Loyalty is defined as unswerving allegiance. The result of loyalty, as our text points out, is the bestowment of a kingdom. Loyalty is cardinal in our walk with God. Israel was accused of adultery on many occasions because they shifted their affection to the gods of the heathens. They paid for such infringement in ways ranging from famine to pestilence to outright captivity. The disciples of Jesus provides us with the template of how to remain steadfast. They did not have a full understanding of the Master or His teaching nor way of life, yet they stuck to Him. When Jesus raised the bar and started talking of the need for people to eat His flesh and drink His blood, many of His followers withdrew. However, the twelve did not shift ground. That was how they wrote their names in gold in God’s eternal kingdom.

In the book of Romans, Paul employed the law of matrimony to commend life of loyalty to Christ. Take particular notice of Romans 7:2-3. “For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.” All who believe have been betrothed as chaste virgins to the Lord; so they are bound by the law of their Husband. The interesting thing is that He is an undying Husband; so there is no way they can be free from His law. In other words, they are not permitted to be married to the world and its alluring system.