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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

2 John 1:6
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
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In today's verse John is echoing the heart of what Jesus Himself had said: "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” {Jn.14:15} You cannot say that you love the Lord and then turn a deaf ear to His instructions for your life and your relationship with Him.

And that instruction is about hearing and obeying what He has told us to do, to "keep" and to "walk according to" is very much what had been said ages before with great promises. “Now it shall be, if you will diligently obey the Lord (YHWH) your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the Lord your God.” {Deut.28:1-2}

I am quite certain it would bless and encourage us to read all of the many blessings listed from verse 1 to 14 of that 28th chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy—it would also serve us all well to read the warnings in the rest of that chapter, those things that would then result from disobeying the word of the Lord! Scary things indeed.

It would also be profitable to know that in Hebrew, the original language of the Old Testament, the word translated 'to hear' - shâma' is the same as the word translated 'to obey'! Don't even try do one without the other.

True love requires action, not just words. And the action must truly match the words or they become a lie. The single greatest example of words in action was surely our Father God and His beloved Son Jesus both when they said that they love us—and then took the action:

    "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16) ...then...
    “We know love by this, that He (Jesus) laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” (1 John 3:16)

HEAR AND LIVE THE WORD OF GOD