Featured The Commandments of Jesus Christ

False. It is not saying if you do not keep Jesus's commandments you do not love Jesus.

It is Jesus simply saying, if you love me, then obey me.

 

So which commandments are we to keep?

 

By admission, then, you are not actually a member of a Baptist Church. You just go to them and preach "your doctrine," the exact same things 'we' preach here," which is not Baptist doctrine.
So what are you? You don't seem to be Baptist. What are you affiliated with?

 

The context is referring to experiential abiding in Christ. It is not referring to being "created in Christ" (Eph. 2:10) or "chosen in him" (Eph. 1:4) or positionally seated "in Christ" (Eph. 2:7) or being "baptized in Christ" (Gal. 3:27) or metaphorically "in Christ" by church membership (1 Cor. 12:12-13).

Being "chosen in him" occurred "before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4) and therefore could not be obtained or effected by anything you were able to do as you did not exist. Being "created in Christ" is an act beyond your ability as you cannot create anything and besides Paul says it preceded all "good works" (Eph. 2:10b). Being positionally "seated in Christ in heavenly place is due to justification by faith "without works" (Rom. 4:5-11) and thus again has nothing to do with your obedience at all.

Experientially in Christ has to do with experiential power ("without me ye can do nothing") and experiential blessings (joy, fellowship, answered prayer, bearing fruit, etc.) that come with personal obedience but not with entrance into heaven. Thus experiencing the "love" of God and abiding in that experiential love, joy, assurance, blessings that come with personal obedience. This is what Christ means when he says he gives not merely life (eternal life) but life more abundantly - experiential daily joy, blessings that comes by abiding in him experientially - being filled with the Spirit.

 

No, it shows your own complete ignorance of the Scriptures. Even novice believers have been taught that we are no longer under the Old Covenant as this is repeated over and over again by New Testament writers. Thus we are not under the civil and ceremonial law, sacrificial system, Temple ordinances which were all commandments of God under that Old Covenant administration. For example, do you practice the Nazerite vow? Do you keep the feast of unleavened bread? Do you have an altar in your backyard where you offer up animal sacrifices??? These were all commandments by God under the Old Covenant? What Baptist church do you attend that has not taught you the a,b,c,'s????????

 

Jesus Christ is the Jehovah Messiah from Genesis to the incarnation who gave the first commandment in Genesis 2:17 to the last commandments in Malichi. He is the "God" who gave all the commandments to Adam to Moses BEFORE the Old Covenant was instituted in Exodus. He is the "I AM' who existed before Abraham (Jn. 8:57-58) and the same "I AM" who gave the commandments to Moses (Ex. 3:14).

So, you are agreeing that not all the commands of Jehovah our Saviour ("Jesus" - Mt. 1:21-23) are applicable today. Thus, his question was a very valid question as you are now clarifying and restricting the commandments of God to those under the "new Covenant" administration!!! Just curious, are you under the command of Christ to be baptized by the baptism of John (which he submitted unto) - Lk. 7:29-30??? Is it not Jesus who claims that to refuse to be baptized with the baptism of John is to reject the counsel of God????? Or do you just obey some of Christ's commandments, not this one? Or do you start your commandments after Pentecost?

 

Your position is a contradiction as it opposes itself. Your arguments are contradictions to God's Word. You can't respond to my former post and the questions and so you do the cult thing, jump, hop and skip routine.

 

Just did! I exposed your contradition in the post you have not yet been able to respond to! Do you obey the command of Christ in Luke 7:29-30 which he says to reject the baptism of John is to reject the "counsel of God against" yourself? Here is a commandment of Christ? It was the only possible baptism existent which could be commissioned in Matthew 28:19 as no other baptism existed and so none other could be "whatsoever I HAVE COMMANDED you."

Just did! By pointing out that Jesus is the "I AM" the Jehovah Saviour that gave all the commandments in the Old Testament as in every single case where God revealed Himself to man it was in the Second Person of the Godhead - Jesus Christ (Jehovah Savior, Messiah). David calls him his "Lord" in Psa. 110:1 in contradistinction to God the Father. He addressed Moses as "I AM" in Exodus 3:14 as explcitly claimed by Jesus in John 8:57-58 who gave all the commandments under the Old Covenant. So you do not obey all of commandments of Jehovah our Savior do you?

 

No, He has already spoken! All I did was refer to HIS WORD! Luke 7:29-30; Mt. 28:19 is HIS WORD - HIS COMMAND. I placed in front of you HIS WORD and you simply don't like it but CAN'T RESPOND TO HIS WORD!