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The Daily Word of Righteousness
If You Love Me . . ., #3
Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; (I Thessalonians 4:1-5)
The lies of Antichrist. Sometimes the claim is made that all this has changed since grace has come. It is true that Jesus kept His Father's commandments and dwells in His love but we do not have to do this. We are saved by grace, and while we ought to try to be good, the love of the Lord Jesus for us certainly does not depend on our keeping His commandments. Rather this means that Jewish people must keep Jesus' commandments and if they do they will abide in His love. But we Gentiles are not required to keep the Lord's commandments because we are "saved by grace."
Does this mean the Jews are still under the Law of Moses and must keep the commandments and statutes of the Old Testament? That is an unscriptural concept considering what Paul said to the Jews in the Book of Romans. Or is it true rather that the Jews that lived during the time of the Lord Jesus were free from Moses and were to keep the commandments of Jesus but now Gentile Christians do not have to keep the commandments of Jesus?
The first Christian Church comprised five thousand Orthodox Jews, all keeping the Law of Moses. Were they suddenly different from the Jews who followed the Lord Jesus?
Some are saying that the four Gospel accounts do not apply to Christians. Let us see if any other part of the New Testament stipulates we are to obey the commandments of Jesus and His Apostles.
If anybody thinks he is a prophet or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord's command. (I Corinthians 14:37)
If we do not obey the commandments given by the Apostles of the Lamb can we still enter the Kingdom of God by grace?
And envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:21)
Was the above written to Christians?
And all the brothers with me, To the churches in Galatia: (Galatians 1:2)
To keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, (I Timothy 6:14)
But what if I do not keep the commandments of the Apostles, will I be saved anyway?
If you do not keep the commandments of the Lord and His Apostles you will be treated as a disobedient, lazy slave. You will not be made a partaker of Christ!
We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. (Hebrews 3:14)
To be continued.