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How do I follow the commandments of God?
Following God’s Plan for Your Life:
- Be in prayer. A way to know that you are following God’s plan for your life is by being in prayer.
- Be actively reading in the Word.
- Follow the commands He puts on your heart.
- Seek a godly community.
- Obey the Truth.
Why is it important to follow God’s commandments?
One answer is that God is calling us to obedience and relationship with him through obedience. By obeying his call to take care of this earth we learn more about him and can grow in understanding of his heart and desires for our lives. Obedience also leads to personal growth. The call to obedience is for our benefit.
Why do we follow the commandments?
Since the time of Moses, our basic obligations have been summed up by the famous laws known as The Ten Commandments. God gave us these laws as a guide for the good living of His people and as a check against evil. The teachings in the New Testament remind us we need God’s law but also the spirit of the law.
How do you obey the commandment of God to love one another?
When you love people, you do not lie about them or steal from them. You have no desire to hurt but love for God and love for others motivates a person to obey God’s commandments! When God’s children act out of Christian Love, they obey God and serve others, not because of fear, but because of His love.
What is God’s plan for our life?
Throughout scripture God’s desire is the redemption of all mankind. It is for the people of God to have fellowship and eternal life with Him. God’s plan for you is the same; it is to prosper and grow spiritually in Christ. His plan to give you a hope and future has never changed.
How can we show our love to our God?
Doing Random-Acts-of-Kindness, Do good things. Jesus said, “If you love me you will keep my commandments.” Honor God’s name. Do this by helping people to believe in God and by sending messages of hope to others to encourage them.
How could you personally live the greatest commandment of love?
“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shalllove your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”…
| SIGN | PURPOSE/IMPORTANCE |
|---|---|
| 1. 2. 3. | 1. 2. 3. |
How are the ten commandments related to each other?
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 1. Love God 2. Love your fellow man (or “neighbor,” as He put it) What Jesus Christ was communicating to His followers was that the intent behind each one of these Ten Commandments fit into one or both of these categories.
Which is the first and Great Commandment of God?
Jesus summarized that standard: “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Why do we have to obey God’s Commandments?
). Those two great commandments summarize the ultimate righteousness that God is creating in His children. That level of love for God and our fellow human beings exceeds what any person is capable of having and expressing fully without the divine help that God makes available to us through the power of His Holy Spirit.
Do you have to break the Ten Commandments to go to Heaven?
All of us have sinned, and just as with civil law, you don’t have to break ten laws to be a lawbreaker, so the Bible warns, “For whoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.”