Can... ONE ... Love Jesus... without Obeying HIM ?
(John 15:8-TO-14) In this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, so you shall be My disciples.
(Joh 15:9) As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you; continue in My love.
(Joh 15:10) If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
(Joh 15:11) I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full.
(Joh 15:12) This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
(Joh 15:13) No one has greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
(Joh 15:14) You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
Can... ONE ... Love Jesus... without Obeying HIM ?
James 1:22 .... " And YOU be Doers of the Word... and Not Merely Hearers... Deceiving Your Own Selves!
Thanks, RR
2007-09-09 02:29:59 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, He said if we love Him, we will obey Him, so that's pretty straight-forward.
2007-09-09 08:27:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a tough question. When I was born again, I trusted Christ which means I had to love Him. Trust and love are two things that can't stand apart from one another. I may not have understood that love at first but it defintely is love. But after I was born again I cant' say that I over night acted obediently according to his word. I wasn't discipled, I didn't study the bible much until 10 years later, and so I still lived according to the flesh. But I knew something had changed because when I sinned, I felt convicted. The sin didn't change my state of salvation but it did keep me in a stunted growth for a while. So if I was born again, having faith in Christ Yeshua, then yes, I was obedient to God's plan of salvation. I accepted that it was the only way. I submitted to it. And not another way. But as far as daily obedience, I think that takes time, growth and understanding in His Word. Just like a child that is obedient to his parents, but still loves his parents. And is disciplined by his parents. Much is known much is required. What we don't know yet God doesn't hold against us. If we love Him we will keep His commandments, but if we sin then we are (as born again christians) still His children but disobedient children nonetheless.
2007-09-09 13:23:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is not blind obedience; love is understanding.
One can understand and yet disagree with an idea; this does not mean love is absent. One cannot love completely if one does not at least try to understand in fullness; blind obedience is a closing of the mind, a robotic nature; love cannot enter there if it is willful and exclusionary. Deception happens when one sees only what one is allowed to see (or allows oneself to see) and nothing more. Open all truths to the mind and the meaning of how Jesus loved is made more clear. One cannot blindly love without understanding what that love means. Those Christians who claim to love and yet do not understand it in fullness are deceived. They exhort without following their own exhortations. Most churches I have been to are full of this type of Christian.
I guess the roundabout answer I've been giving is that I agree in essence with your idea. True love understands; if understanding is full, then one can do nothing else but act in love. This is the conceptual Jesus, perfect love without the idea that he was a man but rather an ideal. In perfect understanding, the corporeal Jesus would fall away and "obedience" would simply be "enlightenment."
2007-09-09 02:49:09 · answer #3 · answered by Black Dog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
surely no longer Bruce. Jesus demands Obedience to his Commandments. The Commandments are a transcript of God's character. God is the author of his Holy regulation(Exodus 31:18). His regulation is a Revelation of God's will to mankind. to regulate the regulation could be similar to changing God. The Bible says "i'm the Lord thy God, i adjust no longer." God Holy regulation is immutable. guy does not be able to regulate God's words in any way. we are obligated by ability of God to maintain his Commandments. The regulation of God is Holy, purely and robust(Romans 7:12). The regulation of God is the two eternal and established and this is been universal perpetually(Romans 3:31). Jesus reported that he did no longer come to wreck the regulation(Matthew 5:17-18). Jesus magnified the regulation. He raised the intense ethical familiar of the regulation while he lived between adult males. people who get carry of Christ into their heart and save his Commandments will stay perpetually while Christ returns the 2d time. particular be conscious: a million John 2:4 a million John 5:3 Revelation 12:17 Revelation 14:12 Revelation 22:14
2016-12-16 15:30:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
However much we fall short of following his instruction that is how much we don't love him. Our love can be very superficial and contaminated with mundane ideas of so called love. Love means to obey and worship and serve always, to think about and contemplate and follow his instructions. Such as Go and sin no more. He wouldn't ask us of something we couldn't do. SO we can actually become sinless if we surrender by following his instructions. Hallelujah, Hare Krishna, Allah Akbar God is one. Your God is my God. World peace. Read the original New testament (which is not misconstrued by King Constantine's version of it) the Gospel of the Nazirenes) is the original word of Jesus, unchanged. google gospelofthenazirenes.com Unless we know exactly what Jesus said we will fall short of being able to follow him. I am so glad I know the full truth of his teachings.Thanks
2007-09-09 04:31:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm afraid not.
Although this scripture applies not to Jesus, but to his Father, the principle would be the same:
1 John 5:3 - For this is what the love of God means, that we observe his commandments...
2007-09-09 02:38:18 · answer #6 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that you can know the New testament, but you can find it difficult to concrete what is said there.
We are free to do what we want. We are not obliged to do as the New testament says. Having had the chance to know it, we will be judged for what we have heard."Judged" does not mean "damned".
How many people knows the whole Bible, but do not practise what is said there?
The difficult thing is to take Jesus Christ words as true, and to practise them changing our lives.
2007-09-09 06:19:48 · answer #7 · answered by Marinoska 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you love Him, obey Him and keep His commandments. I fear disobeying Him, because I live in a flesh body. I try to walk in the Spirit and I ask the Holy Spirit constantly not to let the flesh show up. Paul says we crucify the flesh daily. We walk out our Salvation with fear and trembling.
2007-09-09 02:45:28 · answer #8 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most everyone disobeys Matthew 5: 38-48.
2007-09-09 02:36:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
in order to have an intimate relationship with the Father you must obey the Spirit and discern what He is telling you/God puts forth tests to test His own...no.. we may live in the world but we are not of it
2007-09-09 04:22:04 · answer #10 · answered by loveChrist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋