DO WE LOVE JESUS?

Tonight I want to ask my readers, or anyone who reads my posting, do we love Jesus? I trust you will give me an honest answer. Do we love Jesus? And I am sure 100% of my Christian readers will say, or even swear, that they love Jesus.
Good Bro, good! I am happy to hear that! As Christians, we are Jesus’ lovers. Yes, we are Jesus' lovers. Why do we love Him? Because, I am sure, again, that most of us will say that we love Jesus because Jesus has died to pay for our sins, isn’t that right, Bro? Jesus has died to pay for our sins. But, do we know what Jesus said in the gospel of Jesus? God the Father, by way of God the Son said, "If you love Me, keep My commandments.” "He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?" 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 Our home with him. "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.” John 14:15,21-24.
Jesus said if we love Him we will keep His commandments. Are we keeping His commandments? If we say we are, my next question is where do we keep His commandments? In our hearts, or on our lips? Please be honest! If Jesus asks us on Judgment Day if we have kept His commandments, what is our answer? We cannot say that we have kept them in the bathroom near where we usually sit in the morning, can we? That is not a respectful answer! And we cannot blame the apostle Paul for what we do with respect to His commandments, because he will deny everything that we might throw to his face. The apostle Paul said, "Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God [is what matters]. 1 Corinthians 7:19. Keeping the commandments of God is what matters, the apostle Paul said. We cannot win when we argue against Paul because he has an advanced legal training under Gamaliel, and we have only a pastoral background. Can we beat him in a legal argument? NO! Don't waste our breath! Jesus said, He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” 1 John 2:4.
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.” Matthew 23:15.
Finally, have you heard or read the words that Jesus often used in the Bible, the phrase "wailing and gnashing of teeth"? That threat does not apply to Satan. Why not? Because Satan has no teeth. That threat applies only to us who have teeth or dentures in our mouth. If Jesus has died to pay for our sins, where is the sound of wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from? Do we understand what we read when we read the Bible?




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