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Show A NEW COMMANDMENT commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. "A new " (John 13: 34) The first commandment of record is Genesis 2:15-17 "And the Lord God took the man. and put him into the Eden to dress it and to keep garden of itl\. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge ofgood and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. " God gave the what to, the what not to, and the consequences. Of course, you and I both know that the serpent persuade 1 Eve to eat anyhow by explaining the consequences, "You shall not die. (Genesis 3: 4b) away surely " getting His children enter the promised land, He gave When God ready to them written was on stone ten commandments. Four commandments on how to relate to 1. Thou shalt have God; no other gods before me. graven images. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the 2. Thou shalt make no Lord Thou God in vain. 4. Remember the Sabbath holy. And day, to keep sit commandments to help us get along with one another: 1. Honour thou father and thou mother that thy days long upon the may be 2 it land ... 2. Thou shalt not kill. 3. Thou shalt not steal. 4. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 5. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 6. Thou shalt not covet house . thy neighbors ... Moses saw the misbehavior of God's partying people and three the stones down and broke the. The broke the commandments people so of God much so Deuteronomy They had to be given a second time before entering the promised land. that in The Psalmist David wrote the words of God, "All thy commandments are faithful. (Psalm 119: 86) Then the lawyer asked Jesus what is " . 3 the great commandment, Jesus answered, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and all great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor thy self. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22: 37-40) What a charge and as " command! It is not easy to love God with all you have or to love others what a you love yourself. Too many things get in the way. The Bible says that the form of religion gets in the way. the same as WE would rather concentrate and material dresses things, how or wears ones one money looks and on hair, whether one prays standing or bowing, is the music modem and contemporary or not, what 4 house the says love with all your mind. But gives as us in. The Word worship gathers if that is not this one new soul, heart, and enough, Jesus commandment. Each of the other commandments were a repeating or restating of the old or previous commandments. Nothing new!. While this does not sound much different, there is one fine twist. WE ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS JESUS LOVED US. That is to say Jesus loved us so much that He gave His life for us. He died to wind the not for Himself but for have avoided the come cross or down just to yeilded to the save us. us. save victory He could He could have Himself. But He will of god just to die to That kind of love is not 5 only the giving giving of ones mind, soul and heart but of ones total self. 6 |
