If the reason we do not or should not commit that sin or transgress against God and man is just that we do not want to go to hell, and nothing more, it simply would mean we are selfish and all we care about is ourselves.
It simply can also means we do not have the love of God in us. because the book of 1 John 4:8 said he that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love.
The reason we should not sin or transgress shouldn’t be because we are scared of hell. rather it should be because we love God and love others. for that is the completeness of the law; love.
we shouldn’t claim to live a righteous life because we are scared of hell. That which is a sin in the first place; being sacred in itself is a sin on its own. for that is why it is said perfect love casteth out fear.___1john 4: 18.
if this same fear is found in us, it simply will mean we do not have love in us and do not know God, even though we might have kept the whole ten commandments like the rich man said to Jesus he has done in the book of Mathew19 that he has kept the whole laws, yet before Jesus he was not perfect by keeping the laws alone. so he said to him that before he can be made perfect to enter into the kingdom, he must have love in him. So he told him to go sell all that he has and go give it to the poor.
The Bible said that the Young went away because he was very rich, and can not see himself selling what he has and sharing it with others.
Now we can see that keeping the laws is not the watchword here but love. This was the message of that conversation in the book of Mathew 19 between Jesus and the rich young man; lack of love.
unlike many people who have mixed interpreted that story of the rich young man in a different context entirely. it took The Holy Spirit to open my inner eyes to understand that my just keeping the law because I am scared of hell does not justify my entry into heaven before I was made to understand the hidden meaning in that conversation between Jesus and the rich young man.
upon this will the bible in the book of Mathew 5:48 say “Be ye perfect even as your heavenly father is perfect”
Many people have for long wrongly believed that perfection according to that bible passage is about not sinning by just keeping the laws.
No sir. and no ma’am. that was not what that passage meant again. That passage according to Godly perfection, is simply referring to us living the same lifestyle of our Father who is said to send rain in the farm of both the good and the bad at the same time and at the same measure, which is unto the same nature of love that has to do with we loving our neighbours and even our enemy just as we love ourselves.
only on this nature of love can we ever attain perfection that justifies our entry into heaven like Jesus was trying to tell the rich young man. that it is not by keeping the laws. without the love of God and the love for others in us. or by keeping the laws because we are scared of hell. That same nature is supposed to be cast out with this same nature of love in its perfection, that conquers all. And the perfect love of God is Christ jesus. When have him on our inside then are we truly save in life.
if we will ever be made perfect, if we will ever enter into heaven, and if we will ever know God, we must love our neighbours as we love ourselves. for this is the greatest law of the whole universe; love.
upon this will I always tell people that I am no more bound by the law but by love?
so love today so that you too can be loved for that is the only solution to the world’s problem; love.
for to love is to live and to live is to love.
Ehigamen kingsley
Reforming the mind
