I just noticed in 1Samuel 15:2-9 & 15 " Just do everything you do as if you are doing it to God did not work to Saul.
How do we Love God with all thy Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength?
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I just noticed in 1Samuel 15:2-9 & 15 " Just do everything you do as if you are doing it to God did not work to Saul.
How can we love God with all thy HEART?
According to God, Heart is the most deceitful and no one knows.
JEREMIAH 17:5
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
According to God our heart is deceitful in this case we can't fulfill Love The Lord with All Thy Heart.
But according to the Lord, Loving God with All Thy Heart is Possible if He change our heart.
EZEKIEL 11:19
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
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Jesus said that the greatest commandment is, “ ‘And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment” (Mark 12:30). Now that Jesus lives in us, we love God with all our hearts, with all our souls, with all our minds, and with all our strength.
We love God more than we love the world and more than we love the things in the world—just as Scripture requires (1 John 2:15). We love God more than we love our houses and more than we love our property—just as Scripture requires (Mark 10:29–31). And though our love for the people around us is greater because the love of God is in us, we love God more than we love our parents, more than we love our spouses, more than we love our children, more than we love our siblings, and more than we love our own lives—just as Scripture requires (Matt. 10:37; Luke 14:26).
Some people think that God’s commandments are written to show us how to live our lives, but they are not. They are written to make clear the difference between right and wrong, so that each of us might come to know that we are sinners, that we are guilty before God, and that we need His forgiveness (Rom. 3:19–20). And they say something about us who are saved. They tell us what God put inside us when He came to live in our hearts.
When God came to live in our hearts, He brought all His laws with Him. And when He made His home within us, He wrote those laws indelibly upon our hearts. As a result, the commandment to love Him with all our hearts is not a burdensome commandment that is too hard to bear. It is a natural thing for us to do, and we do it without even thinking.
Jesus said it Himself: “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God” (John 8:42). Loving God in a way that fulfills the greatest commandment is not something we do by being obedient to the Scriptures. Nor is it by disciplining ourselves to do all that God requires.
The kind of love we have for God (the kind that satisfies the requirements of the greatest commandment) cannot be manufactured by man or by human effort. The love we have for God is in us for no other reason except we have been born of God (John 8:42). Our love for God helps define who we are in Christ. Our love for God is built into our spiritual DNA, and it will never change.
But the Bible says that if we love God we would keep (be obedient to) His commands? John 14:15. That's Jesus' own words.
Everything God wants and expects of us exists in Christ and is written into our divine natures by virtue of our union with Him. That's why we love God, the things of God, the people of God, etc, and hate sin. Therefore, if anyone wants to find sinless perfection in this life, then he must look to the new man "which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness" (Eph 4:24). To avoid the pitfalls of sin and to live successful Christian lives, all we need to do is put off the old man, put on the new man, and walk in the newness of life. If all our attention is on conforming the flesh to obey His laws, then we make ourselves slaves to the law to perform it all and place ourselves under the curse of the law for our failures to perform.
Why do you automatically assume that a person who obeys God is trying to conform their flesh to obey His laws?
If a person has indeed put off the old man and put on the new man - that is, living in the power of the Holy Spirit, that person will most definitely obey God and His commandments. That's what the Holy Spirit does, cause a person to obey God. It is not longer a work of the flesh, but of the Holy Spirit. In such a case, when God tells us to obey Him, and we do so in His Holy Spirit, He not going to turn around and condemn us for obeying Him.
“Just do everything you do as if you are doing it for God and his will”
well said
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for their wrongs, and there is no favoritism.”
Colossians 3:23-25
In the New Testament. The Scribes & Pharisees although their basis of Salvation was The Holy Bible in the Old Testament.
But they were not given a New Heart by Our Lord Jesus.
The Disciples of our Lord whose their Heart was changed by God. Therefore only the Disciples who are capable to fulfill the commandment To Love God with All Thy Heart.
In our times today, who received a New Heart from our Lord Jesus since the basis for Salvation of every group in Christianity is the Holy Bible?
The new man is rightly aligned with God in every respect and cannot be corrupted by sin. He is in Christ, he is joined with Christ, and he is one spirit with Christ. If you are saying that the Holy Spirit causes the new man to always obey God, then I agree with you. The new man always obeys God, and there is never a concern that he may rebel against Him in any way.
The new man is the reason we have new life in Christ. In fact, the new man is the new life we have in Christ. Being introspective, we can see the true love we have for God, the things of God, and the people of God in the inner man (i.e., the in the new man). We can see the new man's righteousness and holiness. We can see the new man's distaste for sin. And with careful consideration we can see that those things we see as true for the new man are true for us because the new man is who we are in Christ.
But we also must deal with the flesh that still exists. The flesh is corrupt, grows more corrupt over time, and is in adversarial opposition to everything God wants and stands for. With introspection, we can see the evil desires of the flesh and its love for sin. There are no limits to the depths of its evil. An honest self-evaluation of the identity of the flesh would decicively conclude that the flesh is our own flesh. In other words, the evil desires of the flesh are the evil desires of our own flesh.
The only way to escape condemnation for the sinfulness of our own flesh and the sins it inspires is to acept the grace of God that covers all our sins (and even our sinfulness). And the only way to avoid fulfilling the lusts of the flesh is to walk with God in the newness of life that we possess in the new man. When we do that, we are not carefully navigating every command of God to make sure we are obeying them all, we are walking in the light that He is shining on our paths, and we are not under the law. You may not be saying it or thinking it, but some people see walking in the Spirit as just another way of saying we must obey the law.
Just be honest with God.
Don't be afraid of him.
A lot of believers struggle with the fact that God loves them because they feel they are not good enough and as a result feel they therefore do not love God.
Charles Spurgeon's statement, "We love Him because He first loved us," encapsulates a core theological principle: our capacity for love is rooted in God's prior, unconditional love for us. This love, described as a sovereign act of grace, precedes any merit or goodness within us, motivating our response of love toward Him.
When you look when Jesus asked Peter 3 times he asked him Do you love me.
Jesus used AGAPE for love, yet Peter used the word Phileo
Peter's love for Jesus is described using the Greek word "phileo". This word typically refers to a strong affection or friendship, but not necessarily the same intense, unconditional love described by the Greek word "agape" (AI)
This happens twice, then the 3rd he asks Peter do you Phileo me and Peter gets upset.
Jesus accepted the love that Peter could only offer at the time.
He still asked him to feed his sheep.
Peter moved from Phileo to Agape love for Jesus.
Peter was honest yet Jesus loved him with Agape.
That never changes from God, yet we move and change to Agape.
God loves us as we are and where we are at.
All he asks is that we love him where we are at, believe he loves us and help us to be like Jesus.
Don't be afraid of him.
A lot of believers struggle with the fact that God loves them because they feel they are not good enough and as a result feel they therefore do not love God.
Charles Spurgeon's statement, "We love Him because He first loved us," encapsulates a core theological principle: our capacity for love is rooted in God's prior, unconditional love for us. This love, described as a sovereign act of grace, precedes any merit or goodness within us, motivating our response of love toward Him.
When you look when Jesus asked Peter 3 times he asked him Do you love me.
Jesus used AGAPE for love, yet Peter used the word Phileo
Peter's love for Jesus is described using the Greek word "phileo". This word typically refers to a strong affection or friendship, but not necessarily the same intense, unconditional love described by the Greek word "agape" (AI)
This happens twice, then the 3rd he asks Peter do you Phileo me and Peter gets upset.
Jesus accepted the love that Peter could only offer at the time.
He still asked him to feed his sheep.
Peter moved from Phileo to Agape love for Jesus.
Peter was honest yet Jesus loved him with Agape.
That never changes from God, yet we move and change to Agape.
God loves us as we are and where we are at.
All he asks is that we love him where we are at, believe he loves us and help us to be like Jesus.
Well I would think we need to start off with just what did He mean by love? To many times I try to understand Him by looking through my understanding first.. make sense? He for me does not answer talk like man. Well I ask Him to just tell me you love me just as much. What does He do? Just one example. Shows me this tree with tons of branches and says "show me a branch that was not originally of the vine. I am the vine you are the branches".
Secret Ambition.. MWS. Song playing. For God so loved the world. So many of us .. I would even say most of us still have a hard time grasping that we can never do anything to earn His love. Heres a start
"Love endures with patience and serenity, love is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; love does not brag and is not proud or arrogant. It is not rude; it is not self-seeking, it is not provoked [nor overly sensitive and easily angered]; it does not take into account a wrong endured. It does not rejoice at injustice, but rejoices with the truth [when right and truth prevail]. Love bears all things [regardless of what comes], believes all things [looking for the best in each one], hopes all things [remaining steadfast during difficult times], endures all things [without weakening]."
Secret Ambition.. MWS. Song playing. For God so loved the world. So many of us .. I would even say most of us still have a hard time grasping that we can never do anything to earn His love. Heres a start
"Love endures with patience and serenity, love is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; love does not brag and is not proud or arrogant. It is not rude; it is not self-seeking, it is not provoked [nor overly sensitive and easily angered]; it does not take into account a wrong endured. It does not rejoice at injustice, but rejoices with the truth [when right and truth prevail]. Love bears all things [regardless of what comes], believes all things [looking for the best in each one], hopes all things [remaining steadfast during difficult times], endures all things [without weakening]."
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Yes, the Disciples of Jesus Christ were given new heart.
How to have a new heart like the disciples?
The different groups in Christianity today claim that they have new heart from Jesus because Jesus lives with them. But sadly the claim is not realistic because each of them have different doctrines and way to salvation.
Jesus will not do that. As Jesus said John 14:6 I am the way.
Therefore there is only 1 doctrine and 1 way which Jesus teach.
We can't - in ourselves. However, we have the love of God in our hearts: "And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us." Romans 5:5
When I say, "Lord I love you, I add, "with the love you've given me to love you with". If we could love God with all our hearts, Jesus need not have died. Apart from Him, we can do nothing. That includes loving God as we should.
That's why God gives us a new heart and a new, born again spirit.Deuteronomy 30 verse 6~ The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.
This is it.
We demonstrate love to God by loving others....not using people as a stepping stone to elevate ourselves.
Likes on Facebook or TicTok ain't it either.
Just saying.
I can't tell whether you disagree with the principle itself or the application. Do you agree that people get new hearts when Jesus comes to live in them or do you think they get new hearts by some other way?
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I agree that People Get New Hearts when Jesus comes To Live in Them.
What I observed is All the different groups in Christianity are claiming Jesus Comes and Live in them. But the proof that it is not because each group has different doctrines & way of salvation. Shall we say they don't have a New Heart?
Jesus teaches 1 doctrine and 1 way of salvation only.
The question is How to have a New Heart so we can Love The Lord Thy God with All Thy Heart as the Prophets and Disciples did?
Remember this is a God's Law.