“Anyone who is so ‘progressive’ as not to remain in the Teaching of the Christ does not have God; whoever remains in the Teaching has the Father and the Son.”
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The Apostle John, in one of his epistles, reminds us that we have been called, from the beginning, to love another another according to God’s Commandments:
I ask you, not as though I were writing a new commandment but the one we have had from the beginning: let us love one another. For this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning,
in which you should walk.
Note that the command is not to simply do what we want, such as following passions, and try to brand it as love. The command is to love another genuinely, by doing so in a manner consistent with God’s Commandments.
Indeed, John reminds us that departing from God’s Commandments is not “progressive” but rather a failure to remain one with God.
Anyone who is so ‘progressive’ as not to remain in the Teaching of the Christ does not have God; whoever remains in the Teaching has the Father and the Son.
There are those in the present day who would like to pretend that sin, perhaps even attempting to trap someone in sinful habits, is somehow “progressive.” Instead, sinfulness, such as being enslaved to sins of the flesh, is regressive, backwards, and destructive to the heart, mind, soul and body.
PSALM 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18
Blessed are they who follow the Law of the Lord!
Jesus cautions that in the end times, at the Second Coming of Christ, people will be going about their regular lives when set upon by surprise by apocalyptic events.
Jesus said to His disciples: ‘As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day … the flood came and destroyed them all. … on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.”
Recalling Lot’s wife — who was turned into a pillar of salt when she stopped and looked back after being allowed to flee the destruction of sodom — we are not to seek to preserve our old life when God offers us new life.
Remember the wife of Lot. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it.
