The Law of Jesus Christ!

“But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.” – Joshua 22:5 NIV

Many of us have a desire to be a king/queen, president, vice president, prime minister, mayor, etc. because we want to rule the world. The main reason for this is that we feel that there are things to change around it, so we have to really study or work very hard to be one of the very high person that is qualified to make any changes in the country or the world. The dangerous part of working in these positions is that we are going to make mistakes now or in the future, and we might get stressed how to solve those problems. We may even find very hard to change the world, due to the fact that the world is counting on us. It is good to work in those high positions if it is the will of God. However, all of us are called to change the world by spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:11-21) and becoming the salt and the light of Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:13-16) since we have been created to be the image of God (Genesis 1:27). “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.” (Romans 8:29-30) Furthermore, Romans 10:4 states, “Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.” Therefore, we have to hold fast to Jesus Christ.

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24)

If we want to hold fast to Jesus Christ, then we begin to have the desires of the Spirit to obey all of the other commandments of God—loving God with all of our hearts, minds and souls (Matthew 22:37-38), loving everybody as ourselves (Mark 12:30-31), obeying the Holy Spirit (John 14:15-27), serving God (Colossians 3:23-24), etc.. Moreover, we cannot do Christianity alone; we need to unite with one another in Christ Jesus (1 Corinthians 12:12-13) to keep each other accountable (Galatians 6:2) as each one of us are  members of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27). “For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.” (Romans 12:4-5)

Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. (Ephesians 2:19-22)

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10:19-25)