Lesson 2681

(Lesson 2681)(04-26-19) John 13:33-35
    “Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. 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 men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

   In today’s quote, Jesus made an astounding announcement, the importance of which is, sadly, so very often overlooked and not taught by today’s so-called bible scholars. Therein, Jesus said, “A NEW commandment I give unto you, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another’.
    As it pertains to many of those so-called scholars, it is my opinion that they overlook that announcement so as not to undermine their predetermined, and erroneous contention that Christians are to strictly abide by the old laws of the Jews, namely, the Law of Moses.
    The fact that this NEW second commandment along with the “first and great” commandment, superseds all the old laws, is proven by what was written about this same series of events in Matthew 22:37-40; Wherein “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
    As is made clear in the Matthew quote all the laws of Moses and the prophets hinge directly upon the two NEW commandments. That means that if we simply love God with all that we are, and love all people as we love ourselves, we, in effect, have obeyed the NEW commancments that Jesus imparted to His apostles.~