Stop squirming!
The “Great commandment” didn’t in any way relieve us of the rest. His words were an explanation of the nature of all of the commandments: LOVE.
Go back to Matthew 5 and see when the commandments cease (when the Earth ceases to exist).
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No one is squirming.
If you fulfill the greatest commandment, you automatically fill the rest.
No need to try. It will happen.
There are two ways to read Jesus comment of *If you love me, you will keep my commandments.*
One is that if you claim you love Him, you have to obey the Law. It’s a requirement that obligates one and puts them in bondage, but anyone can obey the law for self-serving purposes, as the Pharisees did.
The other is that if you love Jesus, the natural outworking of that love is obedience to the Law. If you love Jesus, you will be keeping the commandments and you don’t have to worry about trying to do it. It’ll happen and when you walk in the Spirit as the natural response of a person born again. IOW, don’t worry about it guys. It’ll happen.
The demands being made that people keep the letter of the Law, the Law that kills, is useless. It may make the person who thinks they’re doing it feel good and feed their spiritual pride, as we see on these threads, but it does nothing to save us, justify us, sanctify us, or anything else that God gives us by His grace, His unmerited favor.
If the Spirit dwells inside of you and is recreating you day by day, then following the Two greatest commandments will automatically bring your behavior and spirituality into focus to where God dwells...that is in Mount Zion. We follow after Melchizidek as Christ was of that order of priests...not of Aaron and Moses.
The Good Samaritan of the parable as well as all Samaritans were never in good standing with the Law as the priests and levites (you know the “editor-surveyers” of the day). Yet, in terms of Christ’s understanding of the law, the Samaritan was already in the door of eternal life by showing mercy, loving the man as he loved himself!
No need to go back THAT far; just read Acts 15.