Commands in NT

Commands made by God

Matthew 22:36–40 ESV

“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.”

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Commands made by Jesus Christ

In the Gospels

John 13:34 ESV

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

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In the rest of the NT

1 Corinthians 9:14 ESV

In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

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Commands made by the apostles

They received the command to love at the beginning of their Christian experience.

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Paul urged Timothy to command others:

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1 Timothy 6:13–14 ESV

I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Obedience to the NT commands

Obedience is a requirement

1 John 2:3–4 ESV

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

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Obedience is an expression of love and faithfulness

John 14:21 ESV

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

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Commands given by secular authorities

the Roman centurion; Herod orders the beheading of John the Baptist; ; ; ; ; Claudius ordered all the Jews to leave Rome; ; ; ; ; ; ;

Commands given by religious authorities

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Commands that came through Moses referred to in the NT

Hebrews 9:19–20 ESV

For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.”

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