The Ten Commandments are the Covenant, did you know?

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All of y'all who promote the law can't even tell someone how to keep it. That's what the question I asked reveals.

And again, it is the indwelling Spirit who embodies love in an individual. This has nothing to do with the individual other than God's love will be manifested through them. Read Romans 5:5...it is THE LOVE OF GOD that is shed abroad in one's heart. The source of the love is God. The action is performed by God. It is manifested through the individual.
To ask someone to go over every single commandment of the Ten Commandments is going over the entire Bible because these principles that God personally wrote how to love Him grounded in the first 4 commandments and how to love our neighbor grounded on the last 6 the entire Bible hangs on. So we have to be accountable for our own Bible studies.

You do not know what people believe or think, or do, only God knows, so lets stop this nonsense of pretending one does because they place themselves to be equal to God, when only God knows what each and every one of us knows, thinks and does. We all have to be accountable to God one day soon Ecc12:13-14

I will go over one commandment with you how to keep it according to the Bible, you can pick which one that is.
 
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To ask someone to go over every single commandment of the Ten Commandments is going over the entire Bible because these principles that God personally wrote how to love Him grounded in the first 4 commandments and how to love our neighbor grounded on the last 6 the entire Bible hangs on. So we have to be accountable for our own Bible studies.

You do not know what people believe or think, only God knows, so lets stop this nonsense of pretending one does because they place themselves to be equal to God, when only God knows what each and every one of us knows, thinks and does.

I will go over one commandment with you how to keep it according to the Bible, you can pick which one that is.
I've asked you before:

Can you explain how to keep the command to do all to the glory of God in the drinking of a glass of orange juice?
 
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I think the grave mistake people make is trying to define love as a feeling, something arbitrary that is dependent of each individual.

God said there are not any greater commandments than to love God with all our heart, mind and soul and love our neighbor. People take this as personal devotion and feelings.
What is your evidence for this thought? Where is your survey? How many people have you asked? What were the questions? Or, as I strongly suspect, have you just invented a reason to dismiss the valid arguments of your opponents?

When it comes to loving someone, is it based on what we feel on how we are to love someone or should it be based on what that person tells us is how to love them.
That's a false dichotomy. By your logic, if my teenage daughter tells me that she feels loved when I concede to her illegitimate wants, you would affirm it.

In the case of God, He only taught loving Him with the accordance of keeping His commandments. So how can we love God with all our heart, soul and mind but not keep His commandments. The answer is plainly you can't. So to separate the greatest commandments to love God with our all, from the commandments where God tells us how to love Him, is sadly a very deceitful doctrine.
What you still fail to understand is that the relationship between the Christian and God is not based on law. It is not based on obedience. It is fundamentally distinct. You (and your cohort) all think that means disobedience and lawlessness... probably because you cannot conceive of any third option, but that third option is where genuine Christians exist.

So instead of wasting your time and effort railing against your misunderstanding of the Christian life, choose instead to learn from those who walk in peace with God.

Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.

Romans 3:21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.

Galatians 3:2-3 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?

Galatians 3:24-25 So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
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Ok, show where loving God is separated from obedience to His commandments by Scripture, not your words. What did God say in His own words how do we love Him? Do we tell God how we love Him or does He tell us? Is doing what we want to love someone the same as doing what they ask?
Yours is a fallacious challenge. You have asked me to defend statements I have not made.
 
What is your evidence for this thought? Where is your survey? How many people have you asked? What were the questions? Or, as I strongly suspect, have you just invented a reason to dismiss the valid arguments of your opponents?


That's a false dichotomy. By your logic, if my teenage daughter tells me that she feels loved when I concede to her illegitimate wants, you would affirm it.


What you still fail to understand is that the relationship between the Christian and God is not based on law. It is not based on obedience. It is fundamentally distinct. You (and your cohort) all think that means disobedience and lawlessness... probably because you cannot conceive of any third option, but that third option is where genuine Christians exist.

So instead of wasting your time and effort railing against your misunderstanding of the Christian life, choose instead to learn from those who walk in peace with God.

Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.

Romans 3:21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.

Galatians 3:2-3 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?

Galatians 3:24-25 So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
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I asked where GOD Himself tells us how to love Him, you quoted Paul and not about how God asks us what we are to do If we love Him. Its stated all throughout the entire Bible- why are you so reluctant to allow God to define how we are to love Him.
 
No, that would keep it the Old Covenant: a change of location does not make "new". To be new, well, it has to be new, as-in completely new. Therefore, the law that accompanies the New Covenant also had to change from Old Covenant law. The law of the Old Covenant makes no provision for mercy and grace but only judgment for those who seek to be justified by it, and the blood of bulls and goats, which sacrifice was demanded by that law, could never take away sins. With the New Covenant came a new priesthood and a new priesthood demanded a change of law (not a change to its location). For those whom God chose to place under the New Covenant - solely by being placed under it - their sins are forgiven and they become saved. For them the satisfying of any law is not demanded because Christ already achieved that on their behalf.

[Heb 7:11-19 KJV]
11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
14 For [it is] evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
17 For he testifieth, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Forgive me for being so short with you, when I responded, "I don't have time, take it up with the Lord, Pray on it"
I was short of time, and still am, either way, ( I'm old and the Lord is coming Back REAL SOON ..)

Your saying " that we are not under the curse of the Law any longer, is true when we have Christ and His Righteousness, by His Spirit, dwelling in us, directing us to HIS Righteousness, which we exhibit, keep, and present to the world, His Righteousness of obedience to the Father Will, His Law, which qualified Jesus to be our High Priest in Heaven, NOW !

Your statement, of "For them the satisfying of any law is not demanded because Christ already achieved that on their behalf." is true for us, who are IN Jesus, our Savior. By repenting of all our sin, and being born again, adopting a "Newness of Life" IN JESUS, where we will exhibit obedience, the Righteousness of Christ, in our dealings in the world.
Jesus to the Women, "Go and sin no more", and "Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect"
Being obedient to God " by the which we draw nigh unto God." Heb. 7:19

The "Jesus kept the Law, so now, I don't have to" excuse is but one concept mankind uses to continue in our sin, "disobedience" and yet thinking that we are "Christian" and fit for Heaven. WRONG !

Have a Blessed Day, Sir
 
Every time in Scripture God tells us to love Him, it is always connected to obedience to His commandments. We can't separate the two according to God. People want to love God, but on their terms, not God's Exo20:6 John14:15 they want to serve God, on their terms not God's Isa56:6, they want all His blessings, on their terms not God's Isa56:2. This is the same issue that has been repeated over and over again in Scriptures.
If by "commandments" you mean those given through Moses, you are mistaken. Please clarify.
 
Yours is a fallacious challenge. You have asked me to defend statements I have not made.
No I am asking you to allow the God of the Bible to define on what He asked us to do if we love Him. Its right in our Bibles repeated over and over again.
 
I asked where GOD Himself tells us how to love Him, you quoted Paul and not about how God asks us what we are to do If we love Him. Its stated all throughout the entire Bible- why are you so reluctant to allow God to define how we are to love Him.
"So reluctant"... your assumptions about my motivations are inappropriate. I will not justify them with further response.
 
Aren't all Christians indwelt by the Spirit? Does He leave you when you sin?

Again, fine platitudes, but who is more responsible for you walking in the Spirit? You? Or the God at work in your?

Can you tell me how to obey the command to do all to the glory of God in the drinking of a glass of orange juice?


Actually, not everone who says they're Christian automatically receives the Holy Spirit.

The faith must be a genuine saving faith that is willing to repent and obey God for Him to give His Holy Spirit to that person

Acts 5:32 And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

A lot of people hold on to a gospel that says we don't have to repent and obey God, so those people don't actually have the Holy Spirit and is the reason why they can't obey God.

This is fixable though. Just repent and be willing to obey God God will determine whether this is genuine or fake and will or will not give His Holy Spirit accordingly.


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I've asked you before:

Can you explain how to keep the command to do all to the glory of God in the drinking of a glass of orange juice?
Everything we do we should do according to the glory of God and His good will. Phil 2:13 1Cor10:31 Before eating a meal we should always give praise and glory by prayer for everything He made for us without us, even a glass of water or orange juice. This leads us back to Creation, when God made everything for us without us, like fresh water and oranges for us and He is the one who sustains us. We should be thankful for large things as well as small things, and trust like He made water and oranges for us, everything else He made for us Mark 2:27 and asks of us is for our own good. God is the Creator of water and oranges and everything else, and man has gone away from worshipping our Creator the way He asks Exo20:6 why we are reminded to worship only Him who made heaven and earth and everything in it Rev14:7 which points us right back to the 4th commandment Exo20:11 which keeping the Sabbath is a memorial to God's creative and redemptive power. To rest in God's completed works, so He can restore and refresh us through His sanctification Eze20:12 because we can't do this ourselves Isa66:17 we need God.
 
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I was looking at 2 Corinthians 13:5 and have come to the conclusion that I'm unapproved, a reprobate.
How do you know that Christ is in you? What does He say when you ask Him if you're really in Him?
I know Christ is in me because God says so. I can describe to you how I was convicted of my sin and asked how I could be saved. I accepted the fact that Jesus died to pay the price of all my sin - for me personally. I believed, and have never stopped believing, that Christ rose again from the dead.

If you have accepted the Lord Jesus, if you confess Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you are saved. You may not feel like it. You may not understand it. Put your faith in God's facts and not in your feelings.

Was there a time when you accepted Christ? If not, right now is the time. Write down the time and date. If ever you start to doubt, remind yourself by checking out what you did and when.
 
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Why should I answer your question when you haven't answered mine?
Well, here are the words directly from God Himself, not Moses, not Paul on what He asks of His children if we love Him.

The first time this is mentioned is in the Ten Commandments- written by God, spoken by God. So we do not have to guess what His commandments are because the God of heaven literally and personally wrote them out. Exo31:18 Deut4:13

These are all direct Thus saith the LORD'S - God is trustworthy, so if what He asks of us, if we love Him, should be too.

Exodus 20:6
“but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”


Deuteronomy 5:10
“but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.


John 14:15
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.


John 15:10
“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.”

God does not change - He tells us directly what we should do if we love Him. The question is do we love self, more than Him. Will we love God on our terms or how He asks.
 
All of y'all who promote the law can't even tell someone how to keep it. That's what the question I asked reveals.

And again, it is the indwelling Spirit who embodies love in an individual. This has nothing to do with the individual other than God's love will be manifested through them. Read Romans 5:5...it is THE LOVE OF GOD that is shed abroad in one's heart. The source of the love is God. The action is performed by God. It is manifested through the individual.
The issue of whether followers of Christ should follow his example of what God has commanded is independent of the issue of how to correctly do that. Even if I had no idea how to correctly obey the Law of God, then it wouldn't mean that I was wrong about the fact that followers of Christ should follow his example of obedience to to it. We can't love instead of following God's instructions for how to love. The source of the Law of God is also God.
 
How are we judged as sinners?
If we are not judged as sinners we have no need for a saviour.

The arc of the covenant had the law inside and directly under the mercy seat.

We are all judged as guilty by the law ... BUT the mercy of God allows Christ to pay the price.

No law = no sin = no need for mercy or a saviour.
You confirm your lack of understanding. You really should study your Bible.

"For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God." Galatians 2:19

That means that the law applies to dead people. I'm alive in Christ. I will not be judged by the law. We appear before Christ where our works are evaluated in what is much life a prize giving ceremony. The Great White Throne is where sinners appear.

Before I was saved, I was convicted of my sin. Now I realise that I am a new creation in Christ Jesus, a brand new man, I am the righteousness of God in Christ and I am complete in Him. The Great White Throne judgement determines the sinner's place in hell. The Judgement seat of Christ determines placement in God's kingdom.

Do you not realise that not only are your sins paid for, but you the sinner has been redeemed also? God put an end to you. He gave you new life in Christ. We still have the ability to sin. Escaping every bondage is not so easy. But God no longer sees us at all. We die and our lives are hidden in Christ with God. Colossians 3:3, one of my favourite verses. And I deserved to die. I'm glad that God saw fit to deliver me from my old life. It never did me any good, that's for sure.
 
You confirm your lack of understanding. You really should study your Bible.

"For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God." Galatians 2:19
What law is Paul quoting? He tells us in the very passage. Paul is not teaching to not only worship God or steal from our neighbor is the law he died to. He is not teaching people to not love God on how God asks us to. Paul is gravely misunderstand, mainly people people never allow the context of the passage to explain itself and instead when we see law always assume its the Testimony of God Paul is teaching against, which would make Paul a god and not a servant of God.