Matt: 22:35 One of them, a legal expert, tested him. 36 “Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 He replied, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your being, and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: You must love your neighbor as you love yourself. 40 All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”
John 14:15: If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 15:10: If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
Here is a question you may be able answer. Did Jesus speak real Hebrew or Aramaic Hebrew?
Here's something I posted on the other thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3713919/posts?page=57#57
Matt. 13:12 Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome, 4because everyone born of God overcomes the world.
True story, first hand account:
A young man saw a woman broken down on the side of a turnpike in a major city. She looked desperate, so he pulls over to assist. She needs a battery. She had no money.
He took her to the nearest auto parts store and bought her a $80 battery out of his own pocket. He then took her and the battery back to her car, on the side of the turnpike, and installed it for her. Car started, and after thanking him, she drove off.
Short while later, the young man goes into Burger King, buys a hamburger and coke. Checking to see if he won anything, he scratches off the hidden number on the soda cup. Discovers he's won $10,000!
Coincidence, karma, or the Holy Spirit? I like to think Holy Spirit. Expect to be rewarded here and in the hereafter.
God isn't dead. His power is real and he shares it with us.
2 Tim 3
Evil in the Last Days
1But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. 2For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, 4traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!