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One or Many Commandment(s)

1John.5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Here the reader of First John is faced with the ultimate question?
Will they go back under the Old Law Covenant, and/or stay in Christ under the New Covenant of love?

Rom. 0:2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 10:3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God. 10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

When one reads the words commandment(s) the first and always the fleshly mind start listing a number of commandment(s) taught from Christ words on earth which is, in, and of itself fraught with many wrong false interpretations, but why?

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Simply because Christ taught under the Old Law to fulfill it, by the love of God. In other words, much of what Christ was teaching while on earth was under the Old Law, but once resurrected (made alive in Spirit); the promised Holy Spirit was poured out, proof positive that the Old Law Covenant was completed set aside once and for all times by the precious blood of Christ instituting an everlasting covenant not by written word, but in Spirit and truth in the endless life of Christ Jesus.

2Cor. 3:4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;
3:5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
3:6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 3:7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away: 3:8 won't service of the Spirit be with much more glory? 3:9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

Thus, if one thinks in fleshly terms that would be the law governing the sins of our flesh, (the old law) by believing that anyone but Christ could obey (the old law in his flesh); completing the law they will find themselves in a very confused conflicting worship of God with some old and some new that defiles both covenants.

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

Rom. 7:1 Or don't you know, brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
7:2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. 7:3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

Under the old covenant there were many commandments to follow, but under the new covenant, that is, lets make this very clear, the new covenant is for those “in” the living life of Christ, as his body members which are no longer alive in the flesh to God or Christ, the bible is very pointed on this subject, that is, found in the Greek Scriptures those specific written after the Holy Spirit was poured out there was only one commandments, but why?

Rom.13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
13:9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet,"{TR adds "You shall not give false testimony,"}{Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21} and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."{Leviticus 19:18} 13:10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

It was because the law of God, the law of the new covenant for those in Christ had only one law, the law of love, not many commandmen(s) like the old did. Hence, without love one was not “in” Christ, or did they know God.

Thus, one cannot be obedient by commandment(s) the very point of the Old Law, the Old Covenant, which took animal blood to be made right, and/or righteous before God for all sin and fall short of God's glory.

1 John 4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

1 John 4:9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Subsequently, that meant that there was no one righteous not one man born from Adam that could keep the commandments of the old law covenant. Lets make this clear as well, that once a person is a sinner, that is, born into sin they could never keep the old law, the old covenant. Once a sinner under the old coveant always a sinnner. The old law of Moses, that is, the old covenant did not removes sin from sinners, it pointed them out and convicted them of sin.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Hebrews 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

However, not true in Christ who's life is the superior covenant of love, why? Simply put, which is hid by religion, those in Christ have no sin, why? Becuase they are created new in a sustitude life given too them by God, that is, Christ life that did not sin, and now can never sin because he was made incorruptible by his Fahter YHWH.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
Hebrews 9:11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation.

So lets set the record straight if we do not approach the book of First John under the new covenant in Christ we are mislead and will find ourselves in a works of law, being condemned and condemning others to what Christ died for and delivered us out of.

James.2:7 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? 2:8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself,"{Leviticus 19:18} you do well. 2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. 2:11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery,"{Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18} also said, "Do not commit murder."{Exodus 10:13; Deuteronomy 5:17} Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 2:12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

In other words, one commandment completes all the commandments of the Old Law. That is a bible truth in Christ that cannot be changed by flesh. It is only by being in Christ, God's love us that we obey the truth, all of the truth in Christ. That puts any person with an honest heart sqaurly under the YHWH unmerited kindness, and/or underserved kindness of God where we must conclude that there are no works in grace or its no longer grace. Without love one cannot obey God, and without being put into Christ by God unmerited kindness we do not obey the truth of God who is love.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Romans 4:4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.

Romans 9:11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

Romans 9:32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Yes, this is the division between light and darkness the messeage of the entire truth of God once he poured out the Holy Spirit anything less than truth is a lie which breaks all of God righteous commandments and it not love. We simple cannot have any righteousness in and of ourselves, we are given that righteousness that is Christ, and in him, we are in God's love, and out of him under works of law, we are under self-righteouness.

1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

Titus 1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;

Hebrews 6:18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

And that is why the law was not created for the righteous, but sinners, all are sinner unless they are put into anothers life without sin requiring God undeserved kindness as a free unearned gift to us.

1 John 3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

1 Corinthians 4:7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Philippians 1:11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

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