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NASB | Deuteronomy 11:1 "You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 11:1 "Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His precepts, and His commandments [it is your obligation to Him]. |
Subject: Having a Relationship with God |
Bible Note: Hi Robert, This response may be too quickly made, but... You wrote: "My relationship to Christ should not be evaluated by my obedience to the law, but rather my obedience to him." Obedience, then, is important. We agree on that. Now, obedience means thinking, saying, doing, what he wants us to do. Right? His commands are what he wants us to do, and by keeping his commands we show that we love him. See the Scripture I reference in the first post. You write: "What I was trying to say in my last post regarding "his commandments exceeding the ten Commandments was that as those who belong to him, he wants our life, our all." Keeping God's laws, his commandments, DOES take our whole being: See Mat 22:37 quoted above in my first post. Robert, you used the phrase, "...relationship to Christ should not be evaluated by my obedience to the law..." Actually, my post was not about evaluating our relationship with God, but about HAVING a relationship with God. So we're shifting the discussion. The basis of the relationship is the finished work of Christ on the cross. He gives us the Holy Spirit, because without him there's no hope or power to love (translate, keep his commands, that is, do what he wants us to do) God. Got to go, but think about Rom 7,8 concerning the law, our indwelling sin, and the work of the indwelling Spirit. Peace, Lionstrong |