Love your neighbor as yourself- by Wecrymercy

Yesterday during my study time of JAMES, I believe the LORD helped me
understand the difference between the LOVE GOSPEL we see today, and the LOVE your neighbor as HE truly meant.

It might surprise you that these COMMANDS are not NEW, they were actually established in the OLD TESTAMENT.

Matt 22: 37 -39 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind

"This is the first and great commandment.


"And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

“LOVE GOSPEL” has been expressed in a "FEELY" type of “emotional love” that has spread across the Christian community that has brought about compromises, complacency and tolerance.


As oppose to the “LOVE your neighbor as commanded in Matt 22: 37 – 39”


The LOVE that JESUS IS SPEAKING OF is a RIGHTEOUS, JUST and an IMPARTIAL LOVE that “DOES”/ works the works of righteous towards his neighbor according to the LORD, as commanded in HIS WORD. This type of LOVE has an ETERNAL INTEREST interest in each individual. To love justly, righteously, as well as HIS MERCY and LOVE, bearing witness to GOD'S character, HIS TRUTH.


Please read LEV 19 and Deut 1 to get the FULLNESS of this understanding.


Lev 19: 35 You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.
Lev 19: 34 [But] the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt:I [am] the LORD your God.

How does one LOVE a stranger?

The LORD is commanding JUSTICE and RIGHTEOUS LIVING, as a KINGDOM PEOPLE. To do what is RIGHT before the EYES Of the LORD and doing what is righteous and just towards YOUR neighbor.

Deut 1: 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between [every] man and his brother, and the
stranger [that is] with him

NOT showing partiality.


Not based on creed, culture, race, or circumstances etc. TREATING
all with equality based on the WORD of GOD.

If you love your neighbor in word but not in deed that love is superficial.


Deut 1: 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; [but] ye shall hear the SMALL as well as the GREAT; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment [is] God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring [it] unto me, and I will hear it.

New Testament command:
James 2: 4 have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

James 2: 8 If you really fulfill the “royal law” according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well;

Old testament command.
Lev 19: 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: [but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.


Lev 19: 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD

James 2: 9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors

Very interesting if you really read JAMES 2.. you will find that he refers back to the WORD in LEV and DEUT.


To LOVE GOD is the first command, we love our neighbors as we are command by doing what is RIGHTEOUS, JUST and HOLY before them, and among them. AMEN.


To LOVE your NEIGHBOR is NOT a compromising, tolerant (as in embracing their sin) complacent kind of love, but is about JUSTICE and RIGHTEOUS, bearing witness to OUR FAITH and obedience to GOD.



Deut 11: 1 "Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always
Deut 11: 13 'And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I
command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your
heart and with all your soul,

Basically you can't tell me you LOVE me with a GODLY kind of LOVE unless you are truly interested in my "ETERNAL CONDITION". Because that is THE LOVE THAT GOD HAS FOR US.

God’s LOVE is an ETERNAL LOVE, HIS LOVE has an ETERNAL INTEREST, protecting us from HIS WRATH, LOVING us into the IMAGE OF HIS SON. HIS love is so eternal, that HE gave HIS only SON.

TO have GODLY LOVE, Our LOVE for one another should have ETERNAL INTEREST always in the forefront of our mind and hearts.

For to love me any less than that, is TRULY not love at all, but superficial.

blessings donna