“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. I will ask the Father, and he will send another Companion, who will be with you forever. This Companion is the Spirit of Truth, whom the world can’t receive because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. You know him, because he lives with you and will be with you. (John 14:15-17, CEB)
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” This is Jesus speaking here to the disciples. My question when I read this passage is what commandments? We read it and usually, those who claim to be Christian would go to the 10 commandments. But is that what Jesus is referring to? I do not believe that is what Jesus means.
There are two commandments that are indeed the sum of the 10 commandments, and actually, the 613 Levitical Laws that could be seen as the commandments Jesus says to follow.
Jesus says the sum of the law and the prophets, which is the whole of the Hebrew Scripture, is Love the Lord your God and Love your neighbor as yourself.
If you love God, then you need to love God and everyone else. If you do that, then you will have the Spirit.
Do we all love everyone else?
Loving People. Loving God.
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