1Jn_2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Remember this from yesterday--
Mar 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mar 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
We HAVE to listen to our SAVIOR and He was NOT instructing us to do away with His commandments. Why would He even say those word- the first of ALL the commandment, the second is like- why would He say that if He really just wanted us to do away with His moral ten commandments and just say we know what it means to love?
How arrogant we are! How presumptuous we are! We dare to imagine that WE know what it means to love! We dare to believe that we do NOT need the moral ten commandments from our Savior! We dare to question His commandments the very commandments HE LIVED when HE walked the earth!
Why would He tell us this…
Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
If we have decided that to be a Christian simply means living right, not hurting anyone are we following our Savior's commandments? If we put our own commandments in place of His, are we following HIS commandments? IF WE CHANGE the commandments to suit ourselves we are not listening to our Savior. Yet so many want to change them. They won't admit it, they refuse to admit that they are going against our Savior's words, so they talk themselves out of believing they are by throwing up that the only thing that matters is love and nothing else. And they toss in, God knows my heart.
It is true LOVE is everything.
It is true God knows our hearts.
But when we REFUSE to believe that the moral commandments were given from the SOURCE OF ALL LOVE, and are LOVE, then we aren't loving at all. We've thrown up our own idea of love believing we know better than God.
JESUS SAID- IF YE LOVE ME KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
1Jn_2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Do you know JESUS?
Do you keep HIS COMMANDMENTS?
You CANNOT know Jesus if you do NOT keep HIS commandments!
Make up your own religion if you want to, but that will mean making up your own Jesus, and that means you won't know Jesus at all.
He will tell people this--
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity
He will tell them He never knew them, and it'll be the truth because they haven't worshipped Him at all but rather a Lord of their own devising.
By the GRACE of God may we through the power of the Holy Spirit keep HIS COMMANDMENTS and NOT the commandments of our own making. May we KNOW our LORD and may HE KNOW US!
All in HIS LOVE!
By HIS MERCY!
Remember this from yesterday--
Mar 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mar 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
We HAVE to listen to our SAVIOR and He was NOT instructing us to do away with His commandments. Why would He even say those word- the first of ALL the commandment, the second is like- why would He say that if He really just wanted us to do away with His moral ten commandments and just say we know what it means to love?
How arrogant we are! How presumptuous we are! We dare to imagine that WE know what it means to love! We dare to believe that we do NOT need the moral ten commandments from our Savior! We dare to question His commandments the very commandments HE LIVED when HE walked the earth!
Why would He tell us this…
Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
If we have decided that to be a Christian simply means living right, not hurting anyone are we following our Savior's commandments? If we put our own commandments in place of His, are we following HIS commandments? IF WE CHANGE the commandments to suit ourselves we are not listening to our Savior. Yet so many want to change them. They won't admit it, they refuse to admit that they are going against our Savior's words, so they talk themselves out of believing they are by throwing up that the only thing that matters is love and nothing else. And they toss in, God knows my heart.
It is true LOVE is everything.
It is true God knows our hearts.
But when we REFUSE to believe that the moral commandments were given from the SOURCE OF ALL LOVE, and are LOVE, then we aren't loving at all. We've thrown up our own idea of love believing we know better than God.
JESUS SAID- IF YE LOVE ME KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
1Jn_2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Do you know JESUS?
Do you keep HIS COMMANDMENTS?
You CANNOT know Jesus if you do NOT keep HIS commandments!
Make up your own religion if you want to, but that will mean making up your own Jesus, and that means you won't know Jesus at all.
He will tell people this--
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity
He will tell them He never knew them, and it'll be the truth because they haven't worshipped Him at all but rather a Lord of their own devising.
By the GRACE of God may we through the power of the Holy Spirit keep HIS COMMANDMENTS and NOT the commandments of our own making. May we KNOW our LORD and may HE KNOW US!
All in HIS LOVE!
By HIS MERCY!
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