“...as long as in our hearts we are doing our best to obey the Father as the Son obeyed the Father.”
Can you tell me where doing our best is in the New Testament?
Deu 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Mat 22:37 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. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Mat 23:2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they (those who read aloud only from the Law of Moses from the seat of Moses) bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
In other words, when they are done, they then leave the seat of Moses to preach to the crowd how to guard and do Moses according to their dogmas.
Mar 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. ... 13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
And how do we know the disciples continued in the tradition spoken of by Jesus of the reading of Moses every Sabbath?
Act 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day. 22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole assembly,
Doing our best means learning as we ‘grow’ in Messiah and not making the same error over and over again when we come to the knowledge that it is an error by the hearing of Moses being read every Sabbath.
Can you tell me where doing our best is in the New Testament?
The Golden Rule.... 2 commandments...