Sometimes when I approach my friends and ask them to keep the commands that are in the Bible, they always tell me that they dont have to. Some of the most common responses I get is that all you have to do is love God will all of your heart all your soul and all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself..This is written in the Bible for a reason, but can we just keep these two by our standards? Lets see why they are so important.
Matthew 22:37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[c] 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Since God said that all the law and the commandments hang on to these commands, that means if we dont keep these two commands, then we break all of God's commands. If we break all of God's commands then can we have eternal life?
25On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
26"What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?"
27He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'[c]; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[d]"
28"You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live."
This time, Jesus said that if we do these two things then we will live, meaning we will have eternal life.Then can we love God with ALL of our Heart, ALL of our soul, ALL of our mind, and ALL of our strength? Most people will say yes...But then what if you love your Parents? Then automatically you dont have 100 percent love for God. What about all of our mind? That means we have to pray all day so that our mind will be onyl for God which is quite difficult. What about all of our strength? That means everything we have to do is for God. Then what about when we go to work or shcool, Is that for God? When we sleep is it for God or for us? obviously for us, then this shows that we cannot keep the first commandment by our own effort. However, is it man's confirmation that we needs or is it God's confirmation? It is Gods. Someone in the Bible receive this confirmation from God as keeping the first command. Let's see what He did.
2kings 23:25 Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the LORD as he did—with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.
The king gave this order to all the people: "Celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant."
Right after King Josiah ordered the people the celebrate the Passover, then God said that He is the one who loves the Lord with all of his heart, soul, and mind.
Then by keeping the Passover, God acknowledges us as keeping the first commandment. But, the first commandment in the new testament seems a little different than the one in the ten commandments. Lets see if they are the same or different.
Exodus 20:3"You shall have no other gods before me.
Then, how can we have no other gods before God Almighty? Sure, we may think we are only worshiping God, but if God put this command here it must be b/c somehow we are worshipping other gods.
Exodus 12:12"On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn—both men and animals—and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
Exodus 12:11This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover.
On Passover night, God promised that He will destroy all other gods. If He destroys all other gods, then who can we only worship? We can only worship true God. The Passover is the way to keep the first commandent b/c it is the way God said we can love him with all of our heart and soul and mind and also how we can have no other gods. Nowadays, so many people say they keep this command but if they never celebrated the Passover than they cannot truly say they do. Christ AhnsahngHong is the only One who brought the Passover. Therefore, Christ AhnsahngHong is the only One who should us according to the Bible and from God's acknowledgment how to love God with all of our heart, soul, and mind. Thats because He is true God who came to this Earth to teach us His commands so that we may be able to enter eternal heaven.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Christ AhnsahngHong taught us how to love God will all of our Heart
Posted by Thank You, Father and Mother!!! at 7:20 PM
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It is the very God who swallows up death forever with the aged wine, the Passover wine. In these last days, who has blessed us with eternal life through the bread and wine of the Passover and led us to the truth of salvation, according to all these prophecies? Christ Ahnsahnghong. He is our God^^
The glory of God our Father and Mother will be proclaimed to the ends of the earth. let us blow the trumpet of the prophesy, heaven's will
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