Alright brethren, let's turn
to John chapter 3. When you hear the word commandments,
What do you think about? What comes to your mind when
you hear the word commandments? Sadly, we're prone to immediately
think of the Ten Commandments. And for that reason, and because
this whole world says that believers are still under the rule of law,
specifically the Ten Commandments, I want to speak to you tonight
on verse 23 before we go any further. God's commandments to
those who know themselves to be truly needy sinners. God's commandments to them are
not the Ten Commandments nor the 613 laws that were given
at Mount Sinai. God's commandment is one commandment. It's just one commandment. And
it's given effectually through God's prophet. And this is it. 1 John 3.23. This is His commandment. That we should believe on the
name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as He gave
us commandment. I want to speak to you on God's
commandment. The commandment of God, which
every believer is under, is faith in Christ and love for brethren. That's given us by God's Son,
Jesus Christ. That's the commandment. That's
the rule. That's the law we're under, faith
which worketh by love. I want to get right to this because
I want to show you quite a bit here. First of all, God does
not give the believer ten commandments or the whole of the 613 commandments
that He gave at Sinai. God gives one commandment. It says here, verse 23, this
is His commandment. In other places, John refers
to it as commandments plural. Here, he refers to it as commandment
singular. But it says, John Gill said,
they are inseparable. Where there is one, there is
the other. We can't truly love one another
without faith in Christ. And we cannot truly believe on
Christ without love. We cannot love one another without
faith in Christ. And we can't believe on Christ
without love. They each are performed in union
with each other and through each other. Faith and love, they're
inseparable. Some have even pointed out that
the word and could be replaced with the word even, so that it
would read this way, that we should believe on the name of
his son Jesus Christ, even love one another as he gave his commandment. The Ten Commandments are not
the commandments the believer are under. God showed us when
He gave the law at Mount Sinai that He gave that law to reveal
our sin and drive us to Christ. You recall God told the children
of Israel, wash yourselves, sanctify yourselves. And so He gave them
time and they did it. They did their best. And then
God showed Himself to be unapproachably holy to any sinner that tries
to come to Him by justifying or sanctifying Himself by the
works of the law. God came down and all the people
saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet
and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they
removed and stood afar off. And they cried out to Moses and
said, Moses, You mediate for us. And you know what? God tells us what they were saying
and why they did all that. He tells us what all that meant.
In Hebrews 12 verse 19 He says, They that heard entreated that
the word should not be spoken to them anymore for they could
not endure that which was commanded. It means they could not bear,
they could not obey that which was commanded. Look over with
me to Acts chapter 15. You remember whenever those lawmongers, they came down, the
Lord had sent Peter down to preach to the Gentiles and the Lord
had called them and given them a new heart, given them faith.
And these men come down saying now, except you be circumcised
and keep the law, you cannot be saved. That's what these fellows
came. And listen to what Peter said,
Acts 15, 7. It says, Peter rose up and said
unto them, Men and brethren, you know, you know how that God
a while ago made choice among us that the Gentiles by my mouth
should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And He said, And
God which knoweth the hearts, bear them witness, giving them
the Holy Ghost, even as He did unto us, and put no difference
between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore,
why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples,
now listen to this, which neither our fathers nor we were able
to bear, which neither our fathers nor we were able to endure. But
we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall
be saved even as they." Why did he say our fathers? nor we were
able to bear the law. Why did he say that? Why did
he say, nor we, nor our fathers, nor these Gentiles have been
able to bear the law? Why did he say that? Go back
to Deuteronomy 5 and you want to hold your place in Deuteronomy.
We're going to come back here, but look here. Most are never
taught this. Most are never taught that the
Ten Commandments and the whole law of Mount Sinai was only given
to Moses and the children of Israel. That's all. Look here,
Deuteronomy 5 in verse 2. He says here, The Lord our God made a covenant
with us in Horeb, that's Mount Sinai. The Lord made not this
covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us who are all
of us here alive this day. Moses is saying that Abel and
Enoch and Noah and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, none of them
were under the law that God gave at Mount Sinai. The law was not
given until 430 years after Abraham. So, the further back you go,
they weren't under that law. And then, whenever Christ put
an end to the law, and he cried, it's finished, and that veil
went into everybody after that, Jew and Gentile. They were not
under the law. They were not under that law
at Sinai. And none of them walked according to that law at Sinai.
What curse is it that Christ, the curse that Christ redeemed
His elect from? Those who lived before the law
at Sinai was given and those elect who lived after Christ
redeemed us. Those that did not live during
that time that God had given the law. What curse was it? They didn't have that law. What
curse of the law was it that Christ redeemed us from? He redeemed
us from the curse of the law we broke in the garden in Adam.
That's the curse we were under, the curse we broke in the garden
in Adam. Those Jews that were under that
Mount Sinai covenant and a few elect Gentiles that came to believe
while that law was in place, Christ redeemed them from that
law as well as from that law in the garden. But you see, we
were never under that law. Nobody in our day was even under
that law to begin with. God's commandments, not the law
at Sinai, because we'd already broken that law anyway when God
gave it. We can't keep that law. Most
people aren't being told what obedience to the law requires. People will say, well, I'm thankful
I've kept the law. Do you know what obedience to
the Ten Commandments requires? It requires obedience in the
heart, in thought, as well as in deed. Paul said, Moses described
the righteousness which is of the law that the man which doeth
those things shall live by them. You can have eternal life if
you can do the law. All of it, in thought, even in
the heart. James said, whosoever shall keep
the whole law and yet offend in one point, he's guilty of
all. Nobody's ever kept that law. Paul told believers, cursed
is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written
in the book of the law to do them. That's so even of a believer. The law can't justify and it
can't sanctify. It can't justify a sinner. It
can't sanctify a sinner. It can't sanctify a believer.
The law can't give believers assurance or comfort or motivation. We can't go to the law and measure
ourselves by the law? We can't do that. So this law
is not the Ten Commandments. But here's the second thing.
The law at Sinai is not God's commandment to us because God
gives His commandment through His Son, Christ Jesus. Listen
to this. 1 John 3 verse 23. This is God's commandment. And
then look at the very end. As He, His Son Jesus Christ,
gave us commandment. You see that? He says this is
God's commandment. Then He mentions faith in Christ
and He says as He, talking about God's Son, Jesus Christ, gave
us commandment. This commandment we're talking
about here is delivered from God to Christ to His disciples. Go with me to Deuteronomy 18.
Deuteronomy 18. God said this to the children
of Israel through Moses. Deuteronomy 18.16. Listen to
this. He said, According to all that
thou desirest of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the
assembly, saying, let me not hear again the voice of the Lord
my God, neither let me see this great fire anymore that I died
not. And the Lord said unto me, they
have well spoken that which they've spoken. God said, you do well
when we confess that we cannot obey His commandments. We do
well when we confess we can't endure what He commands. We do
well when we confess we need a mediator between us and God,
lest we die. He said, you do well. Now look,
God said, verse 18, I will raise them up a prophet from among
their brethren like unto thee, Moses. And Christ is that prophet. How is Christ a prophet like
Moses? He said, I will put my words
in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command
him. And it shall come to pass that
whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he shall speak
in my name, I will require it of him. Christ Jesus is that
prophet. You remember Philip went and
found Nathanael. He was so excited. He said, we
found him of whom Moses and the prophets did write. Jesus Christ. We found him. We found the one
that Moses wrote about. One time I preached a message
out of John 10 where it says, Christ said, I am the good shepherd.
And I preached a message from there and I titled it, The Preacher
Who Is God. And they got some attention.
They got quite a few listens. The Preacher Who Is God. Because
the word shepherd means pastor. That's what it means, pastor.
And Christ is the pastor. of his people. He's the prophet.
Scripture says he's the shepherd and bishop of our souls. The
shepherd is the pastor. He's the pastor and bishop of
our souls. He's the apostle and high priest of our profession.
Christ is a prophet like Moses. God said, those children, Moses
said in Deuteronomy 5.5, you don't have to turn, I'll read
it. He said, I stood between the Lord and you at that time
to show you the word of the Lord. For you were afraid by reason
of the fire and you went not up to the mount. Moses said,
so I stood between you and the Lord to give you the word of
the Lord. That's how Christ is a prophet
like Moses. Christ stands between God and
His people. He came to this earth, between
God and His people, to give us God's commandment. Look over
at John 12, and you'll want to hold your place in John. John 12, and look at what Christ
said. John 12, verse 49. Christ said, I have not spoken
of myself, That is, of my own words, he said, but the father
which sent me, he gave me a commandment. That's singular, isn't it? A
commandment. He gave me a commandment, what
I should say and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment
is life everlasting. Whatsoever I speak, therefore
even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. Christ says,
God the Father gave me a commandment, one commandment. And he said
in this one commandment is life everlasting. Now we know that's
not the Ten Commandments. I'll show you how we know that.
Go to 1 Corinthians 3. I'll show you how we know that.
That's not the Ten Commandments. 2 Corinthians 3. Look here. Paul said here at the end of
verse 6, or look at verse 7, The ministration of death written
and engraved in stones. See that? He's saying the Ten
Commandments that were wrote in stones, that's a ministration
of death. He says in the verse before it,
the letter killeth. But Christ said the commandment
God gave me to give to my disciples is life everlasting. So it's
not the Ten Commandments, is it? That's not the Ten Commandments.
It's a different commandment. God said we do well to confess
that we can't obey the commandments at Sinai. We can't endure. We
need a mediator. God said Christ, His prophet
gives His one commandment. Christ says His commandment is
life everlasting. It's because Christ gives His
people the ability to keep this commandment. What is it? What is it? The law was given
by Moses. But grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ. What is this commandment? God's
commandment given through Christ our prophet. Look at verse 23,
1 John 3, 23. Here it is. That we should believe
on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another. That's the commandment. That's
the commandment that is life everlasting. Alright, go back
to John. Let's look at John 6. Verse 29. They were asking, What
shall we do that we might work the works of God? Everybody wants
to know. What shall we do to work the
works of God? Jesus answered and said unto
them, This is the work of God that you believe on Him Whom
He hath sent. There it is. There's the commandment.
John 7. John 7. Look at verse 37. In the last day, that great day
of the feast, Jesus stood and He cried saying, If any man thirst,
let him come unto Me and drink. What did He mean by that? He
that believeth on Me. Come unto me and believe on me,
he said. Out of his belly shall flow rivers
of living water. And look what the people said,
verse 40. Many of the people, therefore, when they heard this
saying, said, Of a truth, this is the prophet. This is him. This is the one Moses was talking
about. They understood. Those people had some kind of
understanding that when he comes, he's given a commandment that
is other than the Ten Commandments. It's a commandment other than
the Ten Commandments. And this is it. Believe on Christ. Look at John 13. He gives us
something else. John 13 and verse 34. He says
this in many places, but I'm just giving you a couple of places. John 13, 34. Christ said, A new
commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another as I
have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall
all know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. Is that Christ's command or is
that God the Father's command? Well, they're one. They're one. Look at John 15. After Christ
gave that command, look what He said, John 15, 15. Henceforth
I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what
his Lord doeth, but I have called you friends. For all things that
I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you." He said,
the words I got from my Father, the commandment I received from
my Father, I have made known to you. It was that faith, and
love. It was believe on the Son of
God, Christ Jesus, and love one another. That's the one commandment
that Christ has given. It's the gift of God. Now brethren,
faith, we recognize faith is the gift of God. And do you recognize
love is the gift of God? This is not of us. Neither of
these are of us. Faith and love are the gift of
God. Christ gives those He redeemed
the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit gives us
a new heart to hear Christ's command affectionately. Whenever
Christ is walking along and He comes to those that He is going
to call to be His apostles. These men are fishermen, most
of them. Peter and some of the others, they are fishermen. And
they were making their living fishing. And they had their investments
in boats and in nets and in all the... I mean, that was their
life. That was how they made their living. And Christ said,
follow me. They dropped everything and followed
him. Matthew was a... He was a publican
sitting at the receipt of customs, a tax collector, And the tax
collectors, every time they'd take one tax for Caesar, they'd
take two taxes for themselves. And he's sitting there making
money hand over fist, and the Lord came along and said, follow
me. And one of the Gospels says,
he left all, and then he rose up and followed Christ. He didn't
move a muscle, and he left everything, and then he followed Christ.
You see, when Christ speaks, when He gives the command, a
man came to Him and he had a withered hand and he couldn't do anything
with this withered hand. And Christ is going to heal this
withered hand. And you know how He healed it?
Christ said, reach forth your withered hand. He couldn't. His hand had been that way all
His life and He couldn't reach it forth. But when Christ said,
reach forth, He reached forth. Whole. Completely whole. Lazarus
was in the grave four days. And they said, don't bother him.
Oh, oh, no, no, no. By now he stinks, Lord. And he
said, Lazarus, come forth! He probably didn't even speak
it loud. He probably just said, Lazarus, come forth. Here he
comes. Bound with grave clothes. When
Christ speaks, believe. on the name of His Son. You're
going to believe on the name of His Son. When He says, love
one another as I've loved you, you're going to love your brethren.
What do you think it is, brethren, when you get overcome by your
sin nature and you're out in this world and you get worried
and troubled about tomorrow and the next day and the next day,
like Rob was talking about, and you get worried about those things
and you don't believe God? You're not even thinking about
God. What is it that pricks you in the heart and makes you say,
what am I doing? My God is on the throne. My Savior
is ruling everything. What turns you and causes you
to believe on Him? He speaks just like He did the
first hour He spoke. And the same is true when you're
cumbered about and you're not loving your brethren, you're
not even thinking about your brethren. What causes it all
of a sudden to come on you and say, you know what? I want to
do something for that brother. I'm going to do something for
them. I'm going to go and drop off a dish at their house. I know they've been sick. I'm
going to go carry them something to eat. What puts that on your
heart? Christ says, love this brother,
love this sister. And you do it. And there's not
any expression of love that Christ would have us to show to His
people that we're not going to show. We're going to do it. Because He's going to command
it. He's going to command it. Well, why do I read in the Scripture
where the apostles are always telling the brethren, love one
another. Be sure to love one another. Well, we need to be
told that. because we're so prone to forget
it. But also it's because it's through
this gospel and through his preacher, he said in John 17, Father, just
like you've given me your word and I've spoken it to them, I've
given them my word and sent them forth in my name. And just like
He would speak and through the Father He would be effectual
in the heart of His people, so too now Christ sends forth His
messenger and He speaks and Christ speaks through them. And you
just hear a man say these things, but you experience the power
of Christ saying it. By Christ's command, we love
Christ and therefore we obey His commandments. believing on
Him and loving our brethren. Christ said that. Let me show
you John 14, 23. John 14, 23. Look at this. What I'm saying is when Christ
commands you effectually, there's a new heart created. And that
new heart is in love. It abides in love because Christ
abides in you. That new heart is love. It abides
in love, the new man. And then, through Christ speaking,
we obey His commandment. We believe on Him and we love
our brethren. Look at John 14, 23. He said,
If a man loves Me, he will keep My words. That's saying he's
going to keep this commandment. How? My Father will love him
and we will come unto him and make our abode with him. Don't
read the second part as a result of you loving and keeping His
words, although He does have communion with all who love Him
and keep His word, but that second part is the reason we do the
first part. because He comes to us and loves
us and makes His abode with us. We love Him and we keep His words. That's what John is saying in
our text. Go back to 1 John 3. I'm not preaching on this, but
just look at the next verse, verse 24. He says, this is His
commandment. He gives it to us and He says
in verse 24, and He that keepeth His commandments, here's how
He does it. He dwelleth in Christ and Christ
in Him. and hereby we know that He abideth
in us by the Spirit which He's given us. I'll preach on that
next time, Lord willing. Now what is believing on Christ?
What is it? Believing is relying entirely
upon Christ Himself for eternal life. Believing on Christ is
relying entirely upon Him for eternal life. It's not believing
a system of doctrine. It's not believing about Him,
facts about Him. It's not walking a Roman road.
It's not doing religious acts. Faith is casting all our care
on the Son of God, Jesus Christ, and relying upon Him for all
things, for everything. He says that we should believe
on the name of His Son. We don't believe until we rely
on Him as our sovereign God. I believe Brother Todd said this,
I can't remember exactly how he said it, but it's true. You
cannot worship a God or a Savior that is not sovereign God. You can't. If He's not sovereign,
working all your salvation and working all the things together
for your good, you can't really worship Him. If He's dependent
upon you for anything, you don't worship that kind of a being.
Whatever it is, you don't worship that. You worship and depend
upon a sovereign God. And we don't worship Christ and
believe on Him truly until we worship Him as our sovereign
God. Jesus is God our Savior. And that's the second. He says,
believe on the name of His Son Jesus. Savior. A Savior is only
a Savior who does all the saving. Believing on Him is relying on
Him to do all the saving beginning to end. to be all that we need,
to be all our acceptance with God, our Savior, and it's to
believe He's our successful Savior. His name should be called Jesus,
for He shall save His people from our sin. Believing on Christ,
it says that we should believe on the name of His Son, Jesus
Christ. Christ means He's God's ordained,
anointed, sent one. That's who God sent Him. God sent him with a mission.
He sent him to accomplish and bring in all his sons to glory. And we believe he won't lose
one. He's a successful redeemer. Of
God, Christ is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification
and redemption. He's everything. Nothing must
be put between a sinner and believing on Christ. Nothing. Sinner, stop
looking at whether you know enough doctrine. Stop doing that. Stop looking at whether you've
got enough conviction of sin. Stop looking at you. That ain't
faith. Believe on Christ. That's faith. Whatever you add to Christ, whatever
you say that you need, you look, well I just need a little more
of this and then I'll believe on Him. Whatever that this is,
that entirely takes the place of Christ. Whatever it is. Believing is knowing Him. Knowing
Him, knowing a person. That's it. And being persuaded
that He is able to keep that which you've committed
unto Him until that day He brings you home. That's faith. And He
says, and loving one another. Loving one another is what all
who are born of God do. We all do. Every born again believer
does this because God who is love abides in us so that we
abide in love. And therefore, we love God our
Father, we love Christ His Son, and we love all who are born
of Him. You know, God said, I'm going to write my law on their
heart and they're going to do it. It's the law of faith and
love that He writes on our heart. And we do what He commands. It's the holy commandment. Peter
talked of. He talked about some that turned
from the holy commandment and went back like a dog to his vomit.
They turned from this commandment. Right here. This one commandment.
Go to 1 Timothy 1. Look at this. 1 Timothy 1. And
look at verse 5. Now the end of the commandment. is charity, that's love, out
of a pure heart and a good conscience. That's a new creation that's
been given by God. It's love out of a pure heart
and a good conscience and faith unfeigned. There's faith, not
hypocritical faith, faith. Not pretending to have faith,
real faith. Watch this, "...from which some,
having swerved, have turned aside unto vain jangling, desiring
to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor whereof
they affirm." The moment a person starts telling believers they're
back under the law, he has swerved from the commandment. He swerved
from faith. which works by love. He swerved
from the commandment. He's no longer walking in truth.
When somebody swerved from that commandment, Paul told them in
Galatians 2.14, I saw that they walked not uprightly according
to the truth of the gospel. See that? When you swerve from
the end of the commandment, charity out of a pure heart and a pure
conscience and faith unfain, when you swerve from that, you're
not walking according to the truth of the gospel. Go to 1
Corinthians 13. I'll show you what this love
is. This is not of us brethren, this is of God. You can't muster
this up, neither can I. 1 Corinthians 13 verse 1. Though
I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity,
there it is, I become a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. Though
I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and
all knowledge, though I have all faith so that I could remove
mountains and have not charity, I'm nothing. See, I told you
charity is at the base of this thing. It's with faith. You can't
separate true faith and true charity. They're together. And
though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I
give my body to be burned and have not charity, it profiteth
me nothing. Well, I thought that was love,
bestowing all your goods to feed the poor. That's what everybody
in church is telling us. It ain't the love God gives.
He does that, but that's not it itself. You can do all that
and not have this love. This love forsakes everything
for Christ and loves our brethren for Christ's sake. You don't
have to necessarily like those believers who believe Christ,
but you love them in Christ and for Christ's sake. I mean, there
are some believers you just don't want to hang out with because
you're just different. That's all there is to it. You have
different personalities and you're just different. If the gospel
wouldn't have involved you, you wouldn't hang out with them.
But you still love them for the sake of the gospel. and you defend
them for the sake of the gospel, for Christ's sake. Look at this. Charity suffereth long, is kind. Charity envieth not. Charity
vaulteth not itself. It doesn't walk around being
all puffed up trying to act like it's somebody. Charity doesn't
do that. It's not puffed up. It does not
behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil, rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in
the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth
all things, endureth all things, and charity never fails. That
means when we don't have faith and we don't have hope, we're
going to still have love. It's going to still be there.
What about the Ten Commandments? Christ has freed us from the
curse of the law. He's freed us from the covenant
of the law. He's freed us from the constraint of the law. He's
freed us from the commitment to the law. He's freed us from
the law. When we trust Christ, we come
to the end for which the law was given. Christ is the end
of the law for righteousness to everyone that believe it.
Well, what's our rule of life? Believers live by the faithfulness
of Christ who lives in us so that It's God which worketh in
you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Paul said,
The life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son
of God. That means Christ lives in me
and He's steering me, He's ruling me, He's commanding me. After Christ fulfilled the law,
the apostles didn't live as did the Jews. Whenever Peter erred,
Paul said this, If thou being a Jew, Now listen, if you being
a Jew after the flesh live after the manner of the Gentiles and
not as do the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as
do the Jews? Peter didn't live as did the
Jews anymore. He didn't live under the law
anymore. True apostles and elders wrote, you know those that went
down there and said, you got to be circumcised or you can't
be saved. When the true elders and apostles
at Jerusalem heard about that, They wrote, they told them, they
said, you have to be circumcised and keep the law. And listen
to what they wrote. They said, certain went out from
us and have troubled you with words subverting your souls,
saying you must be circumcised and keep the law, to whom we
gave no such commandment. They said, we didn't tell them
that. We didn't tell them to say that, that you have to live
under the law. When lawmongers hear this, they
are going to say, ìSo then you are free to live like you want
to?î They always jump, they make the largest leap when they hear,
ìOh, you are free to commit murder, you are free to commit adultery.î
They always only talk about outward things. Truth is, if I could live like
I wanted to, I wouldnít sin. But I see my heart sins. I see that my motives arenít
true. And that's what I mourn about. That's what I mourn about. So, I am living as I want to
live. I want to live under grace, under
the rule of Christ, being led of Him, constrained by His love.
I want to live that way. Yes, I'm living as I want to
live. Sure am. They cry antinomian. Listen to
this. You know who the true antinomian
is? The one who tries to send you back to the law. They're
unruly. They don't want to be under the rule of Christ. Listen
to this. Paul said, there are many unruly. That's somebody
that's anti-law. He's unruly. There are many unruly
and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision. That's those that want to tell
you to cut out this and cut out that, cut out the other thing,
cut out this, and if you don't act right, they'll cut you out.
lawmongers. But, listen to this too now,
believer. You that believe the gospel,
don't strive with lawmongers about the gospel. Paul said this,
avoid foolish questions and genealogies, contentions, and strivings about
the law. For they're unprofitable in vain.
A man that's a heretic after the first and second admonition,
reject him, knowing that he that is such is subverted. That's
what Paul said circumcisors do. They subvert whole houses. If a man's telling you, you've
got to be under the law, he's subverted and sinneth, being
condemned of himself by his own word. Believing on Christ, we
unite with our brethren under the gospel of Christ and we do
whatever is necessary to help our brethren and that's loving
our brethren. Now go over with me to Galatians
6. Christ said, God the Father said, if a man
doesn't hear the word of Christ my Son, if he doesn't hear the
word of this prophet, he said, I'm going to require it of him.
So be sure you hearken now, I'm telling you the word of Christ
the prophet. The commandment we're under is
believe on Christ and love one another. That's it. Now listen
to what Paul said. But God forbid, 614, God forbid
that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ
by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, neither uncircumcision. It doesn't matter if you're under
the law or not under the law. Here's what matters, being made
a new creature, a new creation. That's what I've been talking
about, how all this starts, Christ creating you anew. And as many
as walk according to this rule. That's the rule we're under.
Faith which works by love. Peace beyond them and mercy and
upon the Israel of God. That's the rule we're under.
I pray God make us hear Him now. Amen.