What are Jesus Christ's commandments?

[Victor in Christ]

If God's law were His instructions for how to become self-righteous and God does not want us to become self-righteous, then it would follow that God therefore does not want to be obeyed, which is absurd, especially considering that all throughout the Bible, God wanted His people to repent and to return to obedience to His law, and even Jesus began his ministry with that message. Therefore God's law is not God's instructions for how to become self-righteous, but His instructions for how to express His righteousness through our actions. People have sadly treated righteousness and holiness as being bad things accusing those who are righteous and holy as being self-righteous and holier than thou.

We can never obtain righteousness on our own. When God convicts us of our sin through the 3rd person of the Trinity, repent and accept Christ into our hearts we need to keep on climbing Jacob's ladder/the Mountain. We slip many times when tried and tested. We must correct what's wrong, keep the Lord's commandments and move on upwards through faith.

James 1:2-3 We'll go through Divers Temptations on this earth to mould and refine us. Even although James instructs us to count it as joy, sometimes we can't see it like that, but we must have faith, many trials, to grow stronger in our faith. Looking forward to the promised land/Heaven/longing to see Christ face to face, esp when going through the problems helps us mature as Christians. Its God's method of making us righteously Holy and mature.

Mature Christians will be able to help others get through the difficulties as God has already helped them through many problems on their journey.

 

[Soyeong]

We can never obtain righteousness on our own. When God convicts us of our sin through the 3rd person of the Trinity, repent and accept Christ into our hearts we need to keep on climbing Jacob's ladder/the Mountain. We slip many times when tried and tested. We must correct what's wrong, keep the Lord's commandments and move on upwards through faith.

James 1:2-3 We'll go through Divers Temptations on this earth to mould and refine us. Even although James instructs us to count it as joy, sometimes we can't see it like that, but we must have faith, many trials, to grow stronger in our faith. Looking forward to the promised land/Heaven/longing to see Christ face to face, esp when going through the problems helps us mature as Christians. Its God's method of making us righteously Holy and mature.

Mature Christians will be able to help others get through the difficulties as God has already helped them through many problems on their journey.

Righteousness is a character trait of God that is straightforwardly expressed doing what is righteous and God's law is His instructions for how to express that character trait, not for how to obtain it. For example, God's law reveals that helping the poor expresses God's righteousness, but no amount of helping the poor will ever cause someone to obtain righteousness. When we have a character trait, then we will express it through our actions, so when God declares us to be righteous by grace, through faith, He is also declaring us to be someone who expresses His righteousness through our actions in obedience to His instructions for how to do that found in His law.

 

[Allan Walker]

What are Jesus Christ’s Commandments?​

Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” (John 6:28‑29, NIV)​

Our acknowledgement of the fact that Jesus is God and that he took on humanity, bore the penalty of our sin and rose from the dead for our justification is the foundation of our faith.

As we grow in grace we become increasingly aware of the glories of our inheritance in Christ in which he has already given us “everything we need for life and godliness” (2 Peter 1:3), that it is Christ who has "become for us wisdom from God" (1 Corinthians 1:30), that he has made us "the righteousness of God" (2 Corinthians 5:21) having freely given to us the “gift of righteousness” by which we are to “reign in life" (Romans 5:17), who is transforming us into his image (2 Corinthians 3:18) and who lives within us to strengthen us with all might and power in our inner being that we might be “filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:16‑19).

Even beyond that we are told that we have been called into a life of intimate and personal fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ (1 John 1:3).

The growth in our understanding and experience of the reality of these glorious truths, establishes and strengthens our ability to “believe in the one he has sent.” This is what is preparing the “good soil” which will bring forth fruit “thirty, sixty or a hundred-fold” (Mark 4:20).

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. (Ephesians 1:18‑19, NIV)​

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[HARK!]

He gave us two commandments:
The Lord Our God, The Lord is One; Thou shalt love thy Lord, thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind", before also referring to a second commandment, "And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Those same commands were given in the Torah.

(CLV) MarK 12: 28-34
28 And, approaching, one of the scribes, hearing them discussing, having perceived that He answered them ideally, inquires of Him, "What is the foremost precept of all? 29 Jesus answered him that "The foremost precept of all is: Hear, Israel! the Lord our God is one Lord." 30 And, You shall be loving the Lord God out of your whole heart, and out of your whole soul, and out of your whole comprehension, and out of your whole strength. This is the foremost precept." 31 And the second is like it: 'You shall be loving your associate as yourself.' Now greater than these is no other precept." 32 And the scribe said to Him, "In truth, Teacher, Thou sayest ideally that He is One, and there is no other more than He." 33 And to be loving Him out of your whole heart, and out of the whole understanding, and out of the whole soul, and out of the whole strength, and to be loving the associate as yourself, is excessively more than all the ascent approaches and the sacrifices." 34 And Jesus, perceiving him, that he answered apprehendingly, said to him, "Not far are you from the kingdom of God.And no one dared to inquire of Him any longer."

Yahshua was quoting the Deuteronomy and Leviticus.

(CLV) DT 6:4
4 Hear, Israel! Yahweh is our Elohim; Yahweh the only One. 5 So you will love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your intensity. 6 These words which I am instructing you today will come to be in your heart.

(CLV) LV 19:18
18 You shall not avenge nor shall you be resentful against the sons of your people. You will love your associate as yourself:I am Yahweh.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Those same commands were given in the Torah.

(CLV) MarK 12: 28-34
28 And, approaching, one of the scribes, hearing them discussing, having perceived that He answered them ideally, inquires of Him, "What is the foremost precept of all? 29 Jesus answered him that "The foremost precept of all is: Hear, Israel! the Lord our God is one Lord." 30 And, You shall be loving the Lord God out of your whole heart, and out of your whole soul, and out of your whole comprehension, and out of your whole strength. This is the foremost precept." 31 And the second is like it: 'You shall be loving your associate as yourself.' Now greater than these is no other precept." 32 And the scribe said to Him, "In truth, Teacher, Thou sayest ideally that He is One, and there is no other more than He." 33 And to be loving Him out of your whole heart, and out of the whole understanding, and out of the whole soul, and out of the whole strength, and to be loving the associate as yourself, is excessively more than all the ascent approaches and the sacrifices." 34 And Jesus, perceiving him, that he answered apprehendingly, said to him, "Not far are you from the kingdom of God.And no one dared to inquire of Him any longer."

Yahshua was quoting the Deuteronomy and Leviticus.

(CLV) DT 6:4
4 Hear, Israel! Yahweh is our Elohim; Yahweh the only One. 5 So you will love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your intensity. 6 These words which I am instructing you today will come to be in your heart.

(CLV) LV 19:18
18 You shall not avenge nor shall you be resentful against the sons of your people. You will love your associate as yourself:I am Yahweh.

...."will come to be in your heart". This was finally accomplished through the pouring out of His Holy Spirit to all believers. It has been fulfilled by Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Blessings.

 

[HARK!]

...."will come to be in your heart".

Indeed.

He told us that the Torah would be written on the hearts of his people in the TaNaK.


(CLV) Jer 31:33
For this is the covenant which I shall contract with the house of Israel after those days, averring is Yahweh: I will put My law (Torah) within them, And I shall write it on their heart; I will become their Elohim, And they shall become My people.