{"id":7452,"date":"2025-06-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2015-05-31T20:47:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T17:47:37","slug":"god-left-us-two-important-commandments-love-god-love-neighbour-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/god-left-us-two-important-commandments-love-god-love-neighbour-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"God has left us two most important commandments \u2013 to love God and to love our neighbour as ourselves.!"},"content":{"rendered":"Greetings to you, dear friends! Grace and peace to you from the Father God and our Lord Jesus Christ!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYesterday we discussed the fact that God has left us two most important commandments \u2013 to love God and to love our neighbour as ourselves. If we do not walk in love we won\u2019t have God\u2019s life in us and won\u2019t enter His fullness.\r\n\r\nIt says in the Epistle to Romans that the one who loves fulfils the law:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00abOwe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, \u201eYou shall not commit adultery,\u201d \u201eYou shall not murder,\u201d \u201eYou shall not steal,\u201d \u201eYou shall not bear false witness,\u201d \u201eYou shall not covet,\u201d and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, \u201eYou shall love your neighbour as yourself.\u201d Love does no harm to a neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilment of the law\u00bb\u00a0(Romans, 13: 8-10).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWalking in love is the determining factor of how happy we will be on this earth. Any one of us can become a happy person, who is satisfied with life, if only we will live in accordance to the law of love. In other words, my attitude towards God and the people around me determines whether I will be happy or not. If you want to be happy, then my advice to you is to love God and your neighbour without deceit!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHave you noticed that our love towards God expresses itself or reflects on our attitude towards other people and on our desire to help them? We seek God, read His Word, spend time with Him in prayer, and spend time with other believers to praise Him collectively and to draw from His wisdom through other brothers and sisters. By doing all these things we want to prove and demonstrate our love towards Him. In return God, changes us and fills our hearts with Himself \u2013 with His love. When we accept God\u2019s love, we are made able to give this love to others.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nGod pours out His love into us, changes us, our world views and our values. God changes our character, and because of that we have learned how not to be easily offended by what other people do, since God has delivered us from offence. We have stopped being nit-picking and we do not pay attention anymore to insignificant things that use to bother us before. We do not get upset as quickly as before. God gives us love, perfects our character and thus releases our gifts, talents and abilities so that we could give to others what we have received from Him.\r\n\r\nMinistry is the giving of ourselves for the good of other people!\r\n\r\nWe read about this in the Scripture:\r\n<h6>\u00ab\u00a0As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the domination forever and ever. Amen\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0(1 Peter, 4:10-11).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis verse of the Scripture is calling us to minister to one another. But, more than that, we are also instructed as to how we can minister to one another:\u00a0<strong><em>\u00abAs each one has received a gift, minister it to one another\u2026\u00bb .<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nSo how can we minister the others?\r\n\r\nEvery one of us can minister to others by using the gift we have received from God.\r\n\r\nSomeone may ask: \u201eDo I really have a gift from God?\u201d sure, you do! Everyone has been gifted by God! God says that you have ALREADY received a gift from Him. You have some gifts, talents and abilities that others really need. When you start thinking about ministry, only then will your true potential in God be revealed. Your gifts, talents, abilities and knowledge won\u2019t be lying dormant like a dead weight.\r\n\r\nThat is why God tells us to learn what ministry gift we have, and then find some people that need this gift and start sharing the gift with them through ministry. However, it is essential to have right motives for ministry: we minister not to get something from people, but to show our love for God by loving the people He loves.\r\n\r\nServe God and He will bless you abundantly!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe will continue tomorrow!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nGod bless you!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walking in love is the determining factor of how happy we will be on this earth. Any one of us can become a happy person, who is satisfied with life, if only we will live in accordance to the law of love. In other words, my attitude towards God and the people around me determines whether I will be happy or not. 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