It's impossible to keep any commandment apart from Christ.
Depends on how you read what is written:
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments...
Is it saying this is how we love God? Or is it saying that obedience is a manifestation of God's love towards us?
It equates the love of God to obedience. But is it our love towards Him, or His love to us? What does it mean that the commandments aren't grievous?
it just is saying what it says brother
this is how we know we love the children of God ( one another )
when we Love God and keep his commandments we’re loving one another
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By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God, and keep his commandments.”
1 John 5:2 KJV
Remember how he said “ all the law and prophets hang on these two commandments “ ? Love God and also your neighbor as yourself ? That’s the same thing John is saying just differently and with other details like “ this is how we know we love one another “
brother look at what Jesus was teaching those who followed him just this example
this is how we love another imperfect human according to the Lord this is an action of love towards another consider this brother I think it’s a good sample of what I’m poorly trying to say
this is Gods word to believers in Jesus the children of God by faith Galatians 3s conclusion this doctrine is bf r those people Paul’s talking to the children of God this is thier law that’s meant to be written inside thier heart so that it’s part of thier conscience thier belief inside thier hesrt and it can guide and steer them
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Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged:
condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned:
forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For
with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
( ok that’s my example of what Gods teaching man to do it’s because we are all imperfect like your saying that’s our law we who trust in Christ
now here’s the difference in obeying it or not )
And
why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? ( it’s a contradiction to Jesus )
Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
he is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and
could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
But
he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation who built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and
immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.”
Luke 6:36-38, 46-49 KJV
Do you see how if we listen to Jesus he’s able to sort of just lay it out in front of us if we’re willing to really listen to him as if Jesus is Our Lord ?
jesus wasn’t the one ordaining or mediating th e law of Moses Moses mediated it , and angels ordained it of course it’s of God this we all inderrrsnd but the ordination and mediation is not Jesus word , blood , preisthood , temple , promised land ect it’s a different covenant is all I’m saying we do have to learn from and obey Jesus however
we just like his disciples walk with him bekieving the gospel and learning from him the rough hesring the word he sent to us and applying it as we learn . We grow up we make many mistakes
like your saying brother
what im saying is listen to what he’s saying and you might understand what I’m saying isn’t in opposition …to what yourrrrre saying
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this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
And
forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
Matthew 6:9-10, 12, 14-15 KJV
Okay do you see how that ,
requires obedience ? Because there’s a consequence of not being forgiven that comes with not obeying it ? And how important it is for us to even when we’re offended make sure and do this ?
“And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.”
Mark 11:25-26 KJV
Do you see how that’s a law that’s going to save a person who isn’t perfect through e mercies of God and only if we accept what he’s saying because the law of Moses doesn’t say that ,
it condemns sinners to death and says “ shew no mercy thine eye shall not pity take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth “
Jesus said no don’t do that , do the opposite when someone offends you pardon them like I pardoned you when you had sinned and needed mercy”
We need to look at the right law is all I’m saying brother and understand who’s words will judge the world
“So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.”
James 2:12-13 KJV
The gospel sets us free it’s the law of Christ we’re taught to hear and believe and follow after his commands his teachings , his words and sayings that’s our law he’s the Christian’s law giver and his law saves souls from sin and death from condemnation from wayward sonship he calls us home brother the tablet is our heart but the words are those the Lord sent tonus in the gospel those should rule our heart and mind as far as becoming our law inside its zgods true law meant to be written on our hearts
arhats why Jesus was always telling everyone it’s about hearing my word and continuing in it following after it in sincerity even if you fail sometimes the things Jesus said in
His law are right there for us to forgive us and restore us and strengthen us and lift us back up
The things Moses said in his law
cannot do that for sinners instead it doesn this to them and also to thier congregation image Jesus teaching this in the gospel ???
“And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness,
they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. …..And the LORD said unto Moses,
The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.”
Numbers 15:32, 35-36
Remember Jesus was presented with a woman caught in the act of adultery and forgave her and called her to repentance from her sin ? His law is grace and truth we want his law inside our hearts and mknds continually and we do also want to think we’re supposed to and are able to obey him he taught us that as did the apostles