"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven."
To this great deliverance may be added another:
"If ye keep My commandments ye shall abide in My love, even as I have kept my
Father's commandments, and abide in His love." Joh_15:10
"The Christian's trade," says Luther, "is prayer." But the Christian has another trade to learn, before he proceeds to learn the secrets of the trade of prayer. He must learn well the trade of perfect obedience to the Father's will. Obedience follows love, and prayer follows obedience. The business of real observance of God's commandments inseparably accompanies the business of real praying.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 53)
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IF you keep Christ's commandments….
Are you reading this? IF you keep Christ's commandments you WILL abide in His LOVE.
Jesus KEPT His Father's commandments and abides in His Father's love.
Does this mean then if Jesus did NOT keep His Father's commandments He would not have abided in His love?
That's exactly what it means.
To be SINLESS- Jesus could not have broken a single commandment given by His Father. The same commandments that JESUS gave, Jesus was there as the moral law was given. Jesus did NOT contest a single commandment given by His Father and HE COULD HAVE, HE WAS THERE!
Joh 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Jesus fully agreed with the moral law, the only law put into the ark of the covenant.
Romans 7:7, 12 -- I had not known sin, but by the, law, the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Wherefore the law is holy.
Note - The law that contains the commandment - "Thou shalt not covet" - is the Ten Commandment law. This law Paul declares to be holy.
Jesus kept the commandments and those commandments are the same we should keep they are HIS. Loving God and loving our fellow man are summed up in the ten moral commandments.
To ever imagine the ten moral laws were done away with is foolishness, there could be NO sin without them because sin is the breaking of those laws!
Is it any wonder that we need to OBEY? We do! We need to live by the moral law our God has given to us to live by. When we fail we do need to repent and seek forgiveness, but we must NEVER imagine we should disobey that law, NEVER.
By the GRACE of our LORD we are able to keep HIS LAW through HIM!
All in HIS LOVE!
To this great deliverance may be added another:
"If ye keep My commandments ye shall abide in My love, even as I have kept my
Father's commandments, and abide in His love." Joh_15:10
"The Christian's trade," says Luther, "is prayer." But the Christian has another trade to learn, before he proceeds to learn the secrets of the trade of prayer. He must learn well the trade of perfect obedience to the Father's will. Obedience follows love, and prayer follows obedience. The business of real observance of God's commandments inseparably accompanies the business of real praying.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 53)
*******
IF you keep Christ's commandments….
Are you reading this? IF you keep Christ's commandments you WILL abide in His LOVE.
Jesus KEPT His Father's commandments and abides in His Father's love.
Does this mean then if Jesus did NOT keep His Father's commandments He would not have abided in His love?
That's exactly what it means.
To be SINLESS- Jesus could not have broken a single commandment given by His Father. The same commandments that JESUS gave, Jesus was there as the moral law was given. Jesus did NOT contest a single commandment given by His Father and HE COULD HAVE, HE WAS THERE!
Joh 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Jesus fully agreed with the moral law, the only law put into the ark of the covenant.
Romans 7:7, 12 -- I had not known sin, but by the, law, the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Wherefore the law is holy.
Note - The law that contains the commandment - "Thou shalt not covet" - is the Ten Commandment law. This law Paul declares to be holy.
Jesus kept the commandments and those commandments are the same we should keep they are HIS. Loving God and loving our fellow man are summed up in the ten moral commandments.
To ever imagine the ten moral laws were done away with is foolishness, there could be NO sin without them because sin is the breaking of those laws!
Is it any wonder that we need to OBEY? We do! We need to live by the moral law our God has given to us to live by. When we fail we do need to repent and seek forgiveness, but we must NEVER imagine we should disobey that law, NEVER.
By the GRACE of our LORD we are able to keep HIS LAW through HIM!
All in HIS LOVE!
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