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.
Amen!
Those who are stuck on trying to put people back under bondage will be the ones “squirming”.
In support of your above statements the following:
Philippians 1:
3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Romans 8:
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.