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Daily Bread - May 2, 2026 (The Seventh Day - Genesis 2:1-3)
Matthew 28:20 - Teach them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And realize that I am with you every day, until the end of the age.” Amen!
While it is true every command of Jesus, the Law, and the Prophets can be comprehended within the command to love one another, we still must recognize there are more than eight hundred commands in the New Testament, and some have counted as many as one thousand fifty. The commands of Jesus and His description of the conduct and nature of those belonging to the Kingdom of God can be number up to sixty-five in Matthew Chapters 5-7 alone. We must recognize how this is not the letter of the Law that kills but the spirit and life of the words of Jesus Christ, our Creator and Redeemer. God desires that we grow from newborn babes into the fullness of the measure of Christ in maturity (Ephesians 4:13; 1 Peter 2:2). To remain as babes and by neglect fail to mature in Christ is a dangerous position leaving one vulnerable to every device of Satan (Ephesians 4:13-14; 1 Corinthians 3:1-4; Hebrews 2:3, 5:12-14).
Equally, there is a significant list of fruits, or outcomes, expected to be evident in the life of those who are of God. Being taught of God has brought us into a relationship with the Lord that teaches us to abide in Christ Jesus (1 John 2:27). Choosing to live our lives in Christ Jesus will result in all of these things pertaining to the life and will of God being revealed in our lives (Romans 8:4; 2 Peter 1:3-4). There is no greater life than the life of walking in the Spirit and being filled with all the wonders of the presence and blessings of God. Obedience to Christ Jesus causes us to live in a realm of faith, which will produce the works of God in our lives. Allowing the Word of God to rule over our lives through the teachings of the Lord Jesus causes us to leave the principles of the doctrine of Christ and fully mature in God (Hebrews 6:1). Obeying the commands of Jesus is the same as allowing the Word of God to abide in our hearts – the Word that gives us authority over sin and the devil (1 John 2:14, 3:9; John 1:12; Luke 10:19; 1 Peter 1:23).
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
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