My grandson is into coding, as he programmed a game Sebastian took the time to explain in simple terms the general idea behind how he got his character to do what it was doing. I was amazed by it all and then Sebastian grinned as showed me a quote, supposedly from Albert Einstein on his phone. It read, “If you can’t explain it to your grandma, you don’t know it well enough.”
The Word of GOD warns against being corrupted from the simplicity that is in CHRIST (2 Corinthians 11:3).
That simplicity that is in CHRIST is found in John 3 :16 “For GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS only Begotten SON (whose human body was conceived in an unique fashion Luke 1:34-35) that whosoever believeth in HIM should not perish but have everlasting life.
While the religious leaders proud of their knowledge talked in lofty terms and made up rules and more rules adding to a simple instruction from GOD, JESUS had the art of focusing on an issue and speaking with simplicity and clarity.
*Note: To the Jew, the law was considered the 1st 5 books of the Bible and the Prophets are the books written by prophets. Peter tells us that no one wrote scriptures on their own. They wrote when they were moved by the HOLY SPIRIT and said what GOD the HOLY SPIRIT told them to say (2 Peter 1:21).
In Matthew 22:35-40 we find the religious leaders trying to trap JESUS and asked HIM what the greatest commandment was. JESUS said simply. “Thou shall love the LORD your GOD with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the 1st and great commandment and the 2nd is like it. Thou shall love your neighbor as yourself on these 2 commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Those words “on these 2 commandments hang all the law and prophets (the written Word of GOD)” says this is the essence of what GOD wants.
In Matthew 7:12 JESUS said, “Therefore all things that you would want men to do to you, even so do to them for this is the law and prophets (GOD’s stated desires).”
In other words, this is the way that pleases GOD.
Get to know HIS word and you will know what makes GOD smile. You know it well enough you can tell others when you have applied it to your own life (Hebrews 5:14).
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Sharon
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