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No New Commandment

1John.2:7 Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

Compounding commandment(s), old, new, from the beginning, what is happening here? How many ways can one define what love should do? Well, truthfully if one is in a religion where building a relationship with God is based upon following the rules, that is, the principles of what love should do? Perhaps, a sky scraper full of books explaining the littlest thing we should do when dealing with our neighbor. Yes, compounding commandments upon commandments until they become measuring line upon measuring line, here a little, and there a little, until a person neck in broken and they fall backwards into hating their brothers and sisters.

Isa.28:9 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 28:10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little. 28:11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language; 28:12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear. 28:13 Therefore the word of Yahweh will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

No Christian's born of God as a new creation needs a library of commandments, nothing changed since Christ spoke a new commandment to us on earth, and what is that? That the whole world would know the truth of God if we love one another, and if we loved one another as he loved us we love God, the Father! How does one command someone to love us? Commanding someone to love is the Antipas of love, the flesh commandments the flesh forcing it to obey, but how does one command the Spirit to obey? If that Spirit is love?

Eph. 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body. 5:24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; 5:26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 5:27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 5:28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. 5:29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; 5:30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

Yes, God is love, and if we don't love, we don't know God, can we command God to love as though he is lacking in love, when he is love? Christ was not forced to love YHWH, he did not come to this earth begrudgingly on another assignment that would advance his career. No! Christ came because he loved the Father, and because he loved the Father he did not sin, and because he did not sin in love, he fulfilled the law proving Satan a liar.

John 15:9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

Do you know the difference? When someone we deeply love ask us to do something we want to, to bring more joy to their heart, we are not proving ourselves as does the flesh to gain something. No! We have it all, the person best, their love, its not about more, or making a name when in love, but about love the other person joy!

John 17:26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."

Romans 5:5 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Do we understand why Christ has a body of those that love him, and why he calls them his body? Jesus has always been in God's body, in God, and God in him, they are one and the same in this regard, nothing lacking for his only begotten son, nothing lacks in Christ just like a member of our own physical body does not lack in love. What command does the brain or our body give to the rest of the body that they must decide if it is good or bad? What evil does the foot impute to the brain when told to walk, does not the whole body benefit by the actions of the foot and vise a verse?

Romans 8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."{Isaiah 64:4}

Why are these body members who belong to Christ imputing evil to their head, and to each other that was the issue the apostle John is addressing here! Simply put, they were walking in the flesh, not in love, that is, the Spirit! One cannot know the Spirit in the flesh, one cannot be at peace with the Spirit in the flesh, one cannot be using a law created for the unrighteous imputing those evils into the body of Christ made righteous by his love for his Father and come up with love?

1Tim.1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

John 3:17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Love of body makes its members one in the same, not division in who's more righteous, and who is less, who deserved more and who deserved less so one must be commanded through harsh laws to make the hand move on the body for the good of the body. Do we understand how love in the body of Christ covers our sins? In other words, who are we to judge a body member? Does the hand judge the foot as evil? Now come on, does the brain judge the foot as evil when the whole body is good and righteous by the righteousness of the body itself?

1Cor.4:1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries. 4:2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful. 4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self. 4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

1 Peter 4:8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

The question becomes what rules, laws, and commandments are we applying our judgment to? Christ body, or our fallen flesh, and that of others? If we are to love, as God loves us, if we are to do as Christ did for us,should we not love one another? Do we clearly understand that nothing good dwells in our fallen flesh? Do we understand, the judgment of our flesh was removed because God is love? Do we understand we are not gaining God's love by merit that it is given freely too us in abundance as it was given Christ.

1 John 3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

1 John 3:11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

Can we believe that two thousand years removed from the flesh of Christ upon earth? Yes, if we are in the Spirit not one thing has changed or is lacking in God's love for Christ who is us, and us in him as his body members so let us walk in love.

1 Peter 1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Colossians 3:14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

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