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YHWH Asks for only One Thing: Everything

What do you say? Do you love YHWH enough to keep his instructions?

  • Yes, I pray throughout my day, for Abba to give me the strength to do his will.

    Votes: 4 100.0%
  • No, I'm under grace. With faith I can love him in other ways.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    4

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(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."

Yahshua is quoting the Shema:

(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.

What is the love of YHWH?

What did YHWH say?

From the Decalogue

(CLV) Ex 20:6
yet showing benignity to thousands, to those loving Me and observing My instructions.

What did Daniel say?

(CLV) Dn 9:4
I prayed indeed to Yahweh my Eloah. I confessed and said intensely, Oh, Yahweh, the great and fear inspiring El, Keeper of the covenant and the benignity for those loving Him and keeping His instructions:

What did Nehemiah say?

(CLV) Ne 1:5
I said: Oh, Yahweh Elohim of the heavens, the great and fear-inspiring El, Who is keeping the covenant and the benignity with those loving Him and observing His instructions,

What did Yahshua say?


(CLV) Jn 14:15
If you should be loving Me, you will be keeping My precepts.

(CLV) Jn 7:16
Jesus, then, answered them and said, "My teaching is not Mine, but His Who sends Me.

(CLV) Jn 14:21
He who has My precepts and is keeping them, he it is who is loving Me. Now he who is loving Me will be loved by My Father, and I shall be loving him and shall be disclosing Myself to him."

What did those who Yahshua taught say?

(CLV) 1Jn 5:2
In this we know that we are loving the children of God, whenever we may be loving God and may be doing His precepts.

(CLV) 1Jn 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we may be keeping His precepts. And His precepts are not heavy,

(CLV) 2Jn 1:6
And this is love, that we may be walking according to His precepts. This is the precept, according as you hear from the beginning, that you may be walking in it;
 

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My two cents...

I have always seen it this way.

There are three levels of motivation.

Being motivated by Law

Being motivated by Principle

Being motivated by Love (agape)

With Jesus inside of us combining with our hearts, we are urged by Him to do right in every circumstance regardless of the complexity of the detail.

This is what the Law could never do.

Principles without His pure motive don't cut it either.

We can give our bodies to be burned, but without His Agape Love motivation it comes to nothing - because it was not appointed.

I think my position is comfortable with scripture and our resulting freedom to walk in His will is a path of praise and celebration. I just love the invitation to walk in "the way" and His Love constrains us to righteousness.
 
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God asks for only two things.

James 1:27
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
38 This is the great and first commandment.
39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
 
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This is the foremost precept."
(CLV) 2Jn 1:6
And this is love, that we may be walking according to His precepts. This is the precept, according as you hear from the beginning, that you may be walking in it;

26 Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
 
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36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God

(CLV) Jn 14:15
If you should be loving Me, you will be keeping My precepts.

If you're keeping the greatest commandment; by default you are keeping all of YHWH's commandments.
 
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(CLV)If you're keeping the greatest commandment; by default you are keeping all of YHWH's commandments.

You are making that up. That's a new religion.

James 1:27
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
 
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You are making that up. That's a new religion.

James 1:27
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
1 John 4:
20
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love
his brother also.


John 15
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12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

That includes today! Not my Will but Yours be done!
 
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You are making that up. That's a new religion.
Yahshua didn't make up a new religion.

Maybe a more accurate translation will help>

(CLV) Mt 22:40
On these two precepts is hanging the whole law and the prophets."
James 1:27
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
That too.

Goes to both loving Yah and your associate.
 
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