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The Greatest Commandment, Shame, and Purity

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him,“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”  Matt. 22: 34-40 Has anyone kept the greatest commandment their entire Christian life? For one day? Five minutes? You may not have, but I break the greatest commandment every day. I do not love the Lord my God with all my heart, my soul, and my mind. Like the Apostle Paul, what I want to do, I don't do, and the things I don't want to do, I do.  But God's response is this. "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (Rom. 8:1 emphasis mine...

Quotes

These are two quotes that grabbed my attention. What we need is not “free will” but wills made free. From this post by John Samson at reformationtheology.com "You can listen to Greg Boyd and the open theists and frankly, I think you'll want to jump off a bridge to be worshipping a god who didn't know that was going to happen." Quote from Todd Friel of Way of the Master Radio on this program featuring Shai Linne's song Triune Praise