1 John 2:3

[FaithAlone]

"By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments."

What commandments? As a Chrisitan I have always heard that we are under the new law of grace and that the old Law is null and void. I have heard that the purpose of the Law is to lead us to Christ (Galatians 3:24). So after we have trusted in Christ as our Savior for salvation does God want for us to keep the Law or are the commandments summed up in "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."?

 

[Rafael]

Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied, "‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
40 All the other commandments and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments."

If a person truly loves God, they will not be able to break these two commandments. Jesus ammended too:

John 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

 

[tqpix]

"By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments."

What commandments? As a Chrisitan I have always heard that we are under the new law of grace and that the old Law is null and void. I have heard that the purpose of the Law is to lead us to Christ (Galatians 3:24). So after we have trusted in Christ as our Savior for salvation does God want for us to keep the Law or are the commandments summed up in "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."?

22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

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[Everglaze]

Basically, if you have Love for God, all the commandments are summed up. By knowing God is also to love him with all your heart, mind and soul.

Read the passage in 1 Corinthians 13.

 

[Kaitsu]

It is not that the law has been chucked away, it is the manner in which we strive to fulfill it that has been changed:

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them" Matt 5:17

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law." Rom 13: 8-10

The purpose of the law is to prove our sin, the purpose of grace is to save through forgiveness of that sin.

Kaitsu

 

[mythbuster]

John !4:21-24 Recovery Version

21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him.
22 Judas, not Iscariot, said to Him, Lord, and what has happened that You are to manifest Yourself to us and not to the world?
23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.
24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me.

To Keep His word is to keep the commandments. Today we do not live by the dead letter of the law but by the law of the Spirit of life. The living Spirit in our spirit has now become our new life. Now we no longer live but Christ lives in us. We love Him and keep His word and become the abode of the Father and of the Son (vs 23).

In My Father's house are many abodes; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. (vs. 2)

We are the abodes