Walk After His Commandments.
This is love that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it. 2 John 1:6.
What is the commandment that we have heard from the beginning? It is to love your neighbor as yourself.
“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.” Leviticus 19:18.
So, today’s verse emphasizes that true love involves obedience to God’s commandments, specifically the commandment to love one another which we have been told from the beginning. In the New Testament, Jesus tells us to love one another and to love our neighbor as ourselves and this is the same thing God was telling the Israelites in the Old Testament. That is why this verse is saying we have been told this from the beginning.
The Greatest Commandment:
Jesus replied, “This is the most important: …
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.
No other commandment is greater than these.”
Mark 12:30-31.
Then, walking according to God’s commandments as Jesus said in Mark 12:30-31, shows we love Him.
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