YOU SHALL OBEY MY COMMANDS Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in me and in the Father. And this is what he promised you—even eternal life. If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and you will come to him and make your home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. You know that you have come to know me if you obey my commands. The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what I command is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys my word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how you know you are in me: Whoever claims to live in me must walk as I did. Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. You shall keep this command without spot or blame until my appearing. Woe to you who do not obey my commands! Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord,” and do not do what I say? You say that obeying only a few commands means obeying me. Don’t you know that anyone who obeys me must obey all my commands? Don’t you know that anyone who disobeys me will be thrown into the lake of burning sulfur? Woe to you who do not obey my commands! You elders take care of the churches according to your will. You pastors preach my word by human wisdom. You deacons serve the believers by natural instincts. You consider yourselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on your tongues, you deceive yourselves and your religion is worthless. Woe to you who do not obey my commands! You break the command of God for the sake of your tradition. You know the truth and yet join the wicked. He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God. Because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. I will send out my angels, and they will weed out of my kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear. ------------------------------------------------------- Website: walktruth
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 05:52:28 +0000
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