{"id":6768,"date":"2017-02-27T04:31:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T04:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2017-02-27T04:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T04:31:57","slug":"purpose-of-commandment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=6768","title":{"rendered":"PURPOSE OF COMMANDMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE: <\/strong>Fear God, love God which is the purpose of God\u2019s commandment.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 6<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Commandment of God is the purpose to fear God. It is written, \u201cNow this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear the LORD your God\u2026\u201d (Deuteronomy 6:1-3) <\/em><\/strong>Fearing God is to love Him. In life, love God by obeying all His commands. Failure to obey God is a failure to fear Him and not to love Him. God wants us to love Him as it is written, \u201cYou shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.\u201d (Deuteronomy 6:5)<\/em><\/strong> God is the Master creator and He does not demand from us what is impossible to do as commanded.
\nThe purpose of commandment is written, \u201cNow the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith.\u201d (1 Timothy\u00a01:5)<\/em><\/strong> God\u2019s standard is set in His word which does not return to Him void and we are to live in compliance to His standard.
\nOnes that keep their heart with all diligence will no doubt love with pure heart. Loving with pure heart is the only access to His presence just as stated by Jesus, \u201cBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\u201d (Matthew 5:8<\/em><\/strong>)
\nAn acclaimed believer without good conscience is fault-full and will fall short of God\u2019s standard. Paul the apostle acknowledges the importance of faith with good conscience when he testified before the council, \u201cMen and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>(Acts 23:1)<\/em><\/strong> As an acclaimed believer, one must avoid becoming fault-full by consciously engaging faithfulness with good conscience.
\nLoving from sincere faith is to be living with passion for the name of God like Phinehas the son of Eleazar who turned back the wrath of God from the children of Israel. The Israelites, while under God\u2019s judgment for their harlotry in Moab, one of the children of Israel came with a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the entire congregation who were<\/em> weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Phinehas reacted when he rose from among the congregation; he took a javelin and went after the man of Israel and killed him and the woman. God acknowledge Phineas\u2019 zeal (Passion) and the plague stopped among the Israelites. (Numbers 25:6-11) Love is sincere; sincere faith is without reservation for God\u2019s glory. True love for God is to fear. Know the purpose of His command; do not hold back your love from God.<\/p>\n

Prayer for today:<\/strong> Ask God for the grace to be living by the commandment of God.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE: Fear God, love God which is the purpose of God\u2019s commandment. Deuteronomy 6 Commandment of God is the purpose to fear God. It is written, \u201cNow this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in … Continue reading PURPOSE OF COMMANDMENT<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6769,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}