![]() ![]() The goal of God’s commands are to reveal, instruct, lead and guide, correct, remind, warn, convict, affirm, transform that we might be conformed into Jesus - the commands… “love your enemy”, “do good to those who mistreat you”, “pray for those who hate you” Commands are given to us at our points of most resistance or to that thing we are least inclined to do.Commands are those things that glorify Him and help us prosper.Commands are God’s expressions of love and affection to us.We join in this conforming by our loving obedience, and in so, begin to more and more express God’s commands naturally. We are a work in progress… We are being conformed into His likeness as we grow in Him through obedience, the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit, and because of the very real righteousness we have received from Jesus (1Cor 1:30 2Cor 5:21). We become like Jesus by hearing/reading, ingesting, digesting, exercising… (Jesus = wisdom Prov chapt’s 1-4) Jesus is the truth and His life - His person and His manner and way - is what He desires in us. I do not believe that that is Jesus’ intent. ![]() I have obeyed, or, at least tried to, so I’m ok Jesus’ love language is obedience and therefore our “I love you” to Him is to obey His commands, but often we relegate our christian lives to compliance (John 14-17)ģ. God’s purpose is to conform us to Jesus… (Rom 8)Ĭommands are not to forever live by, but to learn from, be protected by, to be molded by, to be expressed through, to be reminded - God’s commands have been fulfilled by Jesus in us. ![]() God is for us! This is His promise and encouragement for His children! And, if God is for us, who can be against us…? (Rom 8:31 1John 4:4) We tend to see the word “command” and cringe, or bristle, or even bow our necks and become rebellious - as if the God’s commands are somehow opposed to us (which of course means that if the commands are opposed to us, God must be opposed to us) and that is not so… 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. This also is the following that our beloved Teacher is laboring to instil into the minds of her students.1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. This is the following Jesus invariably taught, and this is the following our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." teaches. How was he to follow Jesus? Not by clinging to his personality, or worshiping it, but by "obeying the commandments." This is the only true following. He no doubt had lived his best conception of these commandments, but he had not lived them truly, for he must "go and sell all that he possessed," and "have treasure in Heaven, and come and follow me." He must forsake the delusive things of the material senses and live in the spiritual, or Truth of Being. Not yet awakened to this necessity, his questioner again asked, "Which?" Jesus replied by citing in substance the Mosaic Decalogue: "Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honor thy father and mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." The young man replied that all these things he had done from his youth up and doubtless he thought he had. Not one good act, but the continual living in goodness, would insure him eternal life, for he must "keep the commandments." But as he was doomed to disappointment, so are his modern prototypes. He said: "But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." His questioner, like many Truth seekers nowadays, evidently thought he might find through, the Master's superior wisdom, some short route to eternal life,-a royal road to Heaven. Jesus pointed that way in his answer to his interrogator. There is but One Good, One God, hence there is but one Way to eternal life. When, in a moment of apparent enthusiasm, "one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" Jesus peremptorily replied: "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God." He asked not personal worship or adoration. " If ye love me, keep my commandments." This might be rendered thus: "If you would obey me, follow my example and my teachings." This was clearly the Great Teacher's meaning. ![]()
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