First John 4:7–8 declares, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. ![]() If Christians would truly and wholeheartedly obey those two commands, we would be fulfilling everything that God requires of us.Ĭhrist freed us from the bondage of the hundreds of commands in the Old Testament Law and instead calls on us to love. Rather than trying to remember the over 600 individual commandments in the Old Testament Law, Christians are simply to focus on loving God and loving others. In place of the Old Testament Law, Christians are to obey the law of Christ. Various New Testament scriptures state that Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament Law, bringing it to completion and conclusion (Romans 10:4 Galatians 3:23–25 Ephesians 2:15). All of the Old Testament Law can be placed in the category of “loving God” or “loving your neighbor.” In Mark 12:32–33, the scribe who asked Jesus the question responds with, “To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” In this, Jesus and the scribe agreed that those two commands are the core of the entire Old Testament Law. ![]() The law of Christ, then, is to love God with all of our being and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.
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