His Love, Our Love

Exo_20:6  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Keep God's commandments.

Joh_14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Why do we believe God's commandments from the Old Testament are contrary to Christ's commandments from the New Testament?

God the Father and God the Son have always been.  God the Son was NEVER not with God the Father.  God the Father did NOT birth God the Son. The Son was God with God until He was declared God the Son.  They have NEVER disagreed with one another, NEVER! Christ did NOT come to earth to tell us that His Father's commandments were wrong and no longer to be kept.  Christ came to earth and revealed the LOVE in each commandment.  The LOVE, HIS LOVE.

Every single one of the TEN commandments is a revelation of God's love.

Yet we view them as restrictive commands that needed to be done away with, why?

Love.

Exo 20:3  Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (( (We need no other god than our Creator, our Redeemer.))))

Exo 20:4  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Exo 20:5  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Exo 20:6  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.  (((We need no *things* to worship, we worship our Creator, our Redeemer.))))

Exo 20:7  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.  (((We need never use our God's name needlessly. He is holy! He is LOVE!))))

Exo 20:8  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exo 20:9  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

Exo 20:10  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

Exo 20:11  For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. (((We need to forever remember our Creator, our Redeemer.))))

Exo 20:12  Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.  (((We need to honor our parents- they gave us life in order for us to love.))))

Exo 20:13  Thou shalt not kill.  (((We should not end anyone's ability to know love, to know God.))))

Exo 20:14  Thou shalt not commit adultery. (((We need not take anyone that is committed to another and we need not break our commitment to anyone.))))

Exo 20:15  Thou shalt not steal. (((We need not take what isn't ours.))))

Exo 20:16  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.  (((We need not lie about anyone.))))

Exo 20:17  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. (((We need not desire anything that isn't ours.))))

What of those ten commandments is worth doing away with?  Should we not love our Creator, our Redeemer? Should we not keep away from things that would take our love for our Creator, our Redeemer away? Should we not keep from regarding our Creator and Redeemer senselessly? Should we not set aside time for our God, our Creator, our Redeemer? Should we not honor our parents? Should we not keep from taking another's life? Should we not keep from breaking our commitments or the commitments of others? Should we not keep from taking things that don't belong to us? Should we not keep from lying about others? Should we not keep from desiring the things that belong to others to our detriment? 

Tell me, please, which of these is wrong? Which of these should no longer be kept?

Surely the ceremonials laws that pointed to our Savior's sacrifice could be easily done away with once you accept that He fulfilled those laws, but the moral law? What of it did Jesus come to tell us was wrong? How could laws given out of love, laws we are told this about--

Exo_20:6  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

And this--

Joh_14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

-- how could they be something wrong, something bad, something no longer needed?  How? Why? 

Truly, why would it be necessary to no longer need to follow commandments of love?

We love with His love.

He's revealed His love to us in many, many ways.  Why do we want to do away with love's revelation in those commandments because we want to put ourselves first? We would rather put self first and self gets in the way. 

When we tell someone we love them, what exactly do we mean?

We mean we wish them no harm in any way, we wish them no ill will, we hope they'll be happy, we want them to know the love of God and have eternal life through Jesus Christ.  Wait, that might not be what you mean, but it is what I mean. I love them with the love of God, the love that Christ Jesus makes possible for me to love with. My love is so imperfect, I can't love with my love, I have to love with the love of God all by HIS grace and mercy. He, along with His only begotten Son, and the Holy Spirit, are pure love we must recognize this and choose to allow them to live in us doing for us what we cannot do.

In the name of the Son, Jesus Christ our Savior!

Amen.