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NASB | 1 John 2:3 ¶ By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 2:3 ¶ And this is how we know [daily, by experience] that we have come to know Him [to understand Him and be more deeply acquainted with Him]: if we habitually keep [focused on His precepts and obey] His commandments (teachings). |
Bible Question:
To abide means to stay or remain. So to abide in Christ is to remain or stay in Him. The next logical question would be how do we get "in Him". We get in Him 1 Corinthians 1:30 (Weymouth NT) But you — and it is all God’s doing — are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance; If I have this right then God is the one who placed me in Christ and if I remain or stay in Him (by choice) I should walk as He walked. According to the Gospels He walked uprightly following the LORD's commands all His commands. Neither turning to the right or the left. It seems to me that this is how we should walk to walk as He walked. Does that make any sense? |
Bible Answer: Hi Asis you ask If I have this right then God is the one who placed me in Christ and if I remain or stay in Him (by choice) I should walk as He walked. According to the Gospels He walked uprightly following the LORD's commands all His commands. Neither turning to the right or the left. It seems to me that this is how we should walk to walk as He walked. Does that make any sense? Jesus tells them to walk in righteousness. That is only done by the keeping of the law, Jesus is the only person ever to have kept the law, thus fulfilling it. When we accept Jesus as our savior, we then walk in Jesus, His righteousness passes on to us. We stand in Jesus, we stand in the righteousness of Christ. That is for us, the keeping of the law. Jesus said the law shall not pass away. Matt. 5:16-20 16.) Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 17.) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18.) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19.) Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20.) For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. In our keeping of what Jesus called the 1st. and the 2nd. commandments, we "WILL" keep the whole law. Mark 12:28-31 28.) And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? 29.) And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30.) And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 31.) And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. This is just for clarification within the thread. When Jesus says in Mark 18:31.) And the (SECOND) is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. It is understood that this commandment is not spoken within the Tables of the 10 commandments. It is listed in the book of Leviticus under the heading of sundry laws. Leviticus 19:18 18.) Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD. In conclusion, Jesus says, in the keeping of these 2 commandments, you will "NOT" break any of the other commandments, thereby fulfilling the law. In essence we are dead to the law, the law has no more hold on us, as long as we walk in the Spirit. Romans 8:4 4.) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 1 Corinthians 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. "Walking in the Spirit "IS" Abiding in Jesus", thereby walking as He walked Vintage68 |