3 Commandments Of JESUS!
Do
Not Hate!
JESUS told us not to Judge others
because we would be Judged with the same measure!
JESUS told us not to call people
names because that would put us in a place to be Judged!
JESUS told us to Forgive those who
sin against us or our Heavenly Father would not forgive us!
These Commandments of JESUS go
against our human nature, because we are sinners (Saved by Grace) but He told
us if we did not keep them we would not be His Disciples! The point is that we
cannot Live by Grace but by Obedience! We Live in Grace to Endure through
Obedience; JESUS told us we must Endure (Overcome)! (Matthew 10:22, 28:13; 1
John 1:13-14; Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 26-29; 3:5, 12, 21-22; 21:7)
Let’s look at these Commandments
of JESUS:
Do Not Hate – Matthew 5:21-26 “You
have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder (Exodus
20:13); and whoever murders will be in danger of the Judgment.’ But I say to
you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger
of the Judgment.” (Numbers 35:9-34).
“And whoever says to his brother,
‘Raca!’ (Lit. in Aramaic, empty head) shall be in danger of the council.” The
council is what JESUS faced during His trial, (council in the Greek means a
tribunal council or a joint session of the Jewish Sanhedrin for the purpose of
punishment; Matthew 10:16-20 [Mark 13:9-11], Matthew 12:14 [KJV], 26:57-59
[Mark 14:55, 15:1, Luke 22:66]; John 11:47; Acts 4:5-16, 5:21-41, 6:12-14,
22:30-23:1)
“But whoever says, ‘you fool!’
shall be in danger of hellfire! (“You fool!” is a Judgment that only GOD can
give, Psalm 14:1; Proverbs 10:23, 12:15-16, 18:6-7, 28:26; [26:3-12, 29:20]; Luke
12:16-21). Do a word study of fool in Proverbs. shall be in danger of hell fire!”
(this is Eternity in the lake of fire; Matthew 25:41; 1 John 3:10-15;
Revelation 20:11-15, 21:8)
“Therefore if you bring your Gift
to the Altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
leave your Gift there before the Altar and go your way. First be Reconciled to
your brother and then come and offer your Gift.” This sounds straight forward,
if your brother has an issue with you, go and make it right. But in Israel,
every male was your brother, even if you did not know them; all Hebrews were
descendants of Abraham, therefore brethren. To the Hebrew people everyone was a
spiritual and natural relative. In the
Church today we limit our spiritual brethren to those in our Church Fellowship
and maybe our denomination, we even exclude our natural families if they do not
agree with our beliefs. JESUS is saying that every person in our nation is our
brother or sister and if any of them has an issue with us, we have to reconcile
with them (this is why you have to read scripture in context to understand who
was talking to whom about what, then you can apply it to your own life)!
The reverse also applies, Matthew
18:15-17, it is our responsibility to be at Peace and in a right relationship
with everyone! (Romans 12:14-21).
So what is JESUS teaching us in
these two situations? That whether we are offended or the offender it is our
responsibility to go and fix the matter before GOD.
“Agree with your adversary
quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to
the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer and you be thrown into
prison. Assuredly, I say to you, you will by no means get out of there till you
have paid the last penny.” So this is the worse-case scenario, your non-believing
brother has now become your adversary (or enemy), the one who wants to do you
harm for your offence. Here JESUS puts the responsibility on the offender to
make things right or face judgment as we saw in Matthew 18:15-17 where the
offender is put out of fellowship because of his unrepentance.
JESUS told the parable of the
unjust servant who was forgiven a great debt but refused to forgive his brother
who owned him a small debt. The master of both men, when he found out
reinstituted the debt of the original man and threw him in prison. (Matthew 18:21-35).
But we still must forgive them,
Mark 11:25-26, “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against
anyone, Forgive him, that your Father in Heaven may also Forgive you your
trespasses. But if you do not Forgive, neither will your Father in Heaven
forgive your trespasses!” This is a serious matter, JESUS talked about it a
lot, even when He taught the disciples how to pray in Matthew 6:9-13, in verses
14-15 He said, “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father
will also Forgive you. But if you do not Forgive men their trespasses, neither
will your Father forgive your trespasses!”
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