Two Most Neglected Commandments

The Two Greatest Commandments on which all the others hang, are the most neglected today in Christendom.

The absence of this Christ-like love is overwhelming to many believers who do demonstrate these Greatest Commandments of the Lord.

We cannot love our brethren, if we do not first love Christ. How can we love Christ or claim to, when His Word and His principles are not important to us.

Many will claim they Love God and then fight and argue when they are corrected according to the Word. Many claim to love God, but compromise many things in their lives in favor of sin.

A humble and contrite heart will hear a correction or rebuke and feel ashamed rather than defensive. If one is defensive then they are prideful and unteachable.

Matthew 22:37-40, "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. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

hu·mil·i·ty

"1. A modest or low view of one's own importance."

James 4:6

"But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Is it any wonder so many people who attend church have little spiritual maturity. They remain babies because they refuse to be taught, they refuse to obey the Word, that tells them they need to ask the Lord to humble them. God will not teach a prideful person.

1 Peter 5:6

"Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,"

Colossians 3:12

"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,"

Romans 12:3

"For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned."