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."
