On these two commandments hang the law and the Prophets

On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. “But  when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the Law? Jesus said to him, You should love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like to it: You shoud love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang  all the law and the prophets."(Matthew 22:34-40) Through repentance and baptism, which involves dying with Jesus Christ and rising again with him, we become one with Christ in the Holy Spirit and call God, Abba, Father.Thus, the image of God is engraved in our hearts through Christ, who is the image of God.Because the Lord Jesus Christ is our righteousness, holiness, and glory.Churches like the church in Laodicea that claim to believe in Christ outside of Christ cannot eat and drink the Lord. They say they are rich, but they are poor; they say they see, but they are blind; they say they are clothed, but they are naked (Revelation 3:17-18)This is the same as the image of God that the Jews believed in changed and they did not know the Son of God, who is the true God and eternal life (1 John 5:20), and crucified him to death. The church of Laodicea, the church of the last days, claims to believe, but they are acting as antichrists by putting Christ, who is the image of God, outside.Anti does not necessarily mean opposing, but also believing in place of something else.Therefore, they think that only outward wealth and splendor are all there is, so they are full of food grown from the soil that snakes eat, and they are accustomed to loving the world with the image of the beast (Rev. 13) rather than the image of God inside them.No matter how hard they try to repent and return to God, the door and path are blocked, so it is impossible.If Christ is not in them, then resurrection and heaven will be in the future.However, if we keep the commandment to become one with Christ in the Holy Spirit of truth through true repentance, we will be sanctified by the truth through the appearance of the Lord, become one with the Lord through glory, and when that oneness is perfect, we will finally reach love. (John 17)This is the will of God who gave us eternal life through Christ, and it is the representative prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ, our high priest.That prayer continues even now. (Hebrews 7:25) Since we cannot become those who sit with Christ in heaven without eating Christ as the bread of life in Christ (Rev. 3:21), we fall short of that love.That is why the Lord tells us the parable of the vine and the branches and tells us to abide in him and seek in him, and that the Lord loves us in the same way the Father loves him, so we must abide in his love. (John 15:9)People say that if you love Jesus Christ, you must obey his words.If we love the Lord, in the Spirit of truth, we receive the Father's love by keeping the new commandment, the word of the new covenant, where the Lord dwells in us and we are in the Lord, and the Lord loves us and reveals himself in us. (John 14:20-21) Therefore, the words, “If you love the Lord, keep his commandments (John 14:15)” should be heard as a word to hold on to the new covenant that has become one with Christ in the Spirit of truth.In the last days, we need to discern the spirit of God and the spirit of the world.Even if the Jews under the law try to love God no matter how much they do, their mouths honor the Lord, but their hearts are far away.(Matthew 15:8).This is the typical example of people who shout for future resurrection and heaven.If you say that you love God and love your neighbor without receiving the gospel of the new covenant that turns the heart of the father to the child and the heart of the child to the father, then that is like thinking like a cat and a mouse.So Paul concludes to the church in Corinth by saying, “If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be cursed” (1 Corinthians 16:22).They do not properly hear the gospel that Christ is in them, and they only follow the gifts of the manifestation of the Holy Spirit that appear externally, but do not receive the Lord Jesus Christ who is the resurrection and life within them and the image of God, so no matter how much they cry, they cannot love the Lord Jesus Christ.So, if you are okay with not loving the Lord Jesus Christ, Paul firmly says like this, Put my hand into the boiling pot. He redeemed us from the curse of the law and transferred us into Christ, and made us one with him through the Holy Spirit, in order to fulfill the righteousness of the law, which is love.When the Spirit and life of the Lord fill us, the confession of our love for God the Father bursts out of our lips, and our whole body loves the Lord, so we worship and praise him like a dog bowing before its master.Naturally, we come to love ourselves.The ugly self-portrait that we were so sick of changes and we come to love ourselves.From then on, we come to love others. It is the Alpha and Omega of all the Law and the Prophets.Therefore, unlike the Corinthian church, Paul said his final greeting to the Ephesian church, which had the power to make even angels tourists with the mystery of Christ and the church, “Grace to all who love our Lord  Christ Jesus with undying love.” (Ephesians 6:24) Let me say it again: we learn about Jesus through the three gospels. However, through the Gospel of John, we become one with the Lord in the Spirit of truth and learn about Christ within us.That reference book is the book of Romans.If you do not receive salvation in the book of Romans, no matter how well you try to believe with your own free will, your consciousness will not change, that is, your thoughts will not be converted to spiritual thoughts.The reason is that you will not be transferred from the body of death born in Adam to the body of spirit in Christ.So, through the Book of Romans, we understand why we need salvation, how we are saved, what the results of salvation are, and if we are transferred to a place of liberation from sin and death by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ and live according to the Spirit, our thoughts will change, we will deny ourselves for the glory of the Lord, take up our cross, and follow him, and we will receive the redemption of our body and attain freedom in the glory of the Son of God. Therefore, for those who love God and are called according to His purpose, all the happiness and unhappiness in life add up and become good, because we conform to the image of God's Son. (Romans 8:29) Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.Translated by  Nancy Chung COME AND SEE WORLD MISSION To God be the glory.