It has struck me hard how many people talk about how they believe the law of love, the two great laws actually, and this is good, however when you love people you also hear what they have to say, and this is especially pertainent to loving the Father.
All I think when people say love, love, love their lips, yet teach agains obeying the Father's will, is the words of the prophet, "This people is close to me with their lips, yet far from me with their hearts."
Love is not just with the lips, it inspires action, and by action I do not say earn anything by the law, but I do refer to good works. They are natural when love exists in a believer.
Those who know Jesus Christ know well that the laws. to punish people, for example, do not contain mercy or faith in Jesus Christ, therefor, they are not to be followed, you know this. We do not stone people or execute any for crimes, though many deserve it.
Anyone who has learned from Jesus Christ knows He is the Chief Cornerstone of the Temple, and we are the lively stones thereof, thus no laws of the Temple are to be followed since He has taught us how to observe the law.
Anyone who is learned of Jesus Christ knows that a theocracy called Israel with God as its King does not yet exist on earth, therefore the laws of that geographical situation cannot be obeyed.
Anyone learned of Jesus Christ knows He has made all foods clean.......toss out those laws.
When we are learned of Jesus Christ we know the Ten Commandments are not evil, and we know the laws dealing with moral behavior are good, and we, by our new nature in Christ, obey them gladly in thanksgiving to Him for his living and dying jusst for you and me.
Our new nature makes us obedient to Jesus Christ, Who, by the way, is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Isaiah 9:6.
No one who loves Jesus Christ and has been given the grace to have the guilt of his sin never imputed against him will ever teach against obeying Him. Grace without obedience is a lie, and those who believe it is not are deceived.
Loving God, just as is loving your neighbor, encompasses action and not just the lips.
