You Cannot Love God and Reject His Commandments Regardless of the claims and professions of men, it is impossible to love God and not keep His commandments. Yet, this is what is constantly heard from supposedly Christian pulpits. Somehow such teachers claim to actually know more than God does! They preach that Jesus did not mean what He said. In effect they are calling God a liar. But it is impossible for God to lie (Titus 1:2, Heb. 6:18). People are told that they dont have to keep the commandments of God. They are taught that all that is required of a Christian is that he or she only have to love God and neighbor with a warm emotional feeling in their hearts. If one feels good about it, it must be right. But in reality such a profession of love, or emotions is spiritually empty and vain. Such misplaced emotionalism is not the kind of love that the Scriptures teach. In the final analysis, the ultimate false conclusion they make is this: They claim that Christians can choose which commandments they will or will not keep. And the most important commandment that they choose to reject and not observe is the Fourth Commandment! God commanded, Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. However, because most people want their own way, they immediately ignore, forget and reject what God has commanded them to keep holy. The apostle Paul describes such an attitude. He wrote, Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God--neither indeed can it be! (Rom. 8:7, AT). This is a perfect description of the mindset that adamant Sunday-keepers hold toward the Fourth Commandment. They have great hostility, and in some cases, great hatred toward the seventh day Sabbath of God! But such an attitude is absolutely contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ Our Savior. He said, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Mat. 4:4; Lk. 4:4; Deut. 8:3). These words of Jesus make it abundantly clear that no one has the prerogative to pick and choose which commandments they will or will not keep. They are to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. The question is this: Are we willing to live by every word of God? In order to understand the Word of God, what are we to do? How are we to live by every word of God? What does the Bible tell us? If we are to uphold the truth of God, we are to ...search the Scriptures daily, whether these things are so (Acts 17:11). Also, our responsibility is to PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD (I Thes. 5:21). What does the Bible teach us about the commandments of God? Here is what king David, a man after Gods heart wrote about Gods laws and commandments: ...Your LAW is the TRUTH...ALL YOUR COMMANDMENTS are TRUTH...Your word is TRUE from the BEGINNING...All your commandments are righteousness. (Psa. 119:142,151,160, 172). In His final prayer before He was arrested, Jesus asked God the Father to sanctify true Christians through His word. He prayed, Sanctify them through your truth, YOUR WORD IS THE TRUTH (John. 17:17, AT). Unfortunately, too many professing Christians are under the misconception that if anything is in the Old Testament, they have the liberty to automatically ignore it. Such a false justification is only an attempt to make it appear that the Old Testament can be wholly rejected. After all it is reasoned, It was only for the Jews. Christians are only to follow the New Testament. But that is not true. The truth is that the New Testament reveals that all the commandments of God are to be kept. Moreover, true believers are to keep them in the spirit of the law as magnified by Jesus Christ and not in the letter of the law only. The apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, the young evangelist, about the Scriptures of God--the Old Testament. He did not ignore or reject them as useless, as so many ministers do today. He upheld the Word of God, as the Truth of God, inspired of God. Notice: And that from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures [the Old Testament] which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-inspired and is profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work” (II Tim. 3:15-17).
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 06:32:20 +0000
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