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. Not that Christ doubted of the love of his disciples to him but he argues from it to their observance of his precepts, seeing ye do love me as all do who are born again, who have had any spiritual sight of him, of his glory, suitableness, and fulness who believe in him, and have received from him who have had his love shed abroad in their hearts, having enjoyed communion with him, and know the relation he stands in to them these love him above all others, and all of him, and that belong to him, unfeignedly, and in the sincerity of their souls, as did the disciples and since they professed to love, and did love him, as they ought to do, he exhorts them, saying,Ĭhrist is Lord over his people, as he is the Creator and Redeemer of them, and as he is an head and husband to them, and as such he has a right to issue out his commands, and enjoin a regard unto them and these are peculiarly "his", as distinct from, though not in opposition to, or to the exclusion of, his Father's commands such as the new commandment of loving one another, and the ordinances of baptism, and the Lord's supper, which are to be observed and kept as Christ has ordered them, constantly, in faith, and with a view to his glory.1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.
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