My grandson is in to coding as he programs a game and was explaining 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 clariity.
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” 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.”
In other words, this is the way you live out the law and the prophets.
JESUS was saying you don’t have to look at a rulebook and struggle to keep the rules, you are to look to GOD and love HIM and let HIS love flow naturally to others as you treat them as you want them to treat you.
Looking to JESUS, (Hebrews 12:2)
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Sharon
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