EPISODE 352 – THE SUPERNATURAL COMMANDMENT
Apostle Benjamin Nana Amissah AnsahCHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY
The Love-Life Agency
Wednesday, 10th January, 2024
THE SUPERNATURAL COMMANDMENT
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35
Jesus did not leave His disciples without clear instructions. The instructions of Jesus are life.
He didn’t come to die for us, resurrect and ascend to Heaven without giving us clear commandments.
Beloved, He gave us the Holy Spirit and He also gave us His commandments.
Most times, we hear people say, we are not “UNDER A LAW…”
Then we begin to think we have no Law and commandments.
That is not entirely true. Because the Bible never said that.
Of course, we are not “UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES”
Whenever the Bible says, we are not under the law, it is referring to the LAW OF MOSES.
That law couldn’t bring us into the full expression of God.
In Christ, we have A NEW LAW OF LIFE (Romans 8:2). This law is also the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2).
The commandments of Jesus are not the Commandments of Moses.
The commandments of Jesus are not merely demands. The commandments of Jesus also supply us with life and ability.
The truth is that His commandments are the dispensing of Himself.
Let me talk to You:
Whatever, Jesus tells you to do is what He has become to you and what He has made you.
He doesn’t just demonstrate what He tells you to do. He becomes what He tells you to do in you.
Our Lord Jesus doesn’t show you how to live His life externally. He has indwelt you through the Holy Spirit to do what He tells you to do, with you.
You don’t walk in the obedience of His commandments alone. You walk in obedience to His commandments with Him.
Paul said, “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God” 2 Corinthians 3:5
See The Passion Translation:
“Yet we don’t see ourselves as capable enough to do anything in our own strength, for our true competence flows from God’s empowering presence”
This is what it is when I say, “The commandments of Jesus are Life”.
He says, “Without me, you can do nothing” (John 15:5).
The golden rule of the commandments of Moses is, “Love your neighbour as yourself”
This is demanding and limited.
It means the ability to love is issuing out of your love for yourself. And you can only love as far as you love yourself.
How far can you love with this limited ability of love in you?
And even until Jesus came, we had not seen the full expression of love.
Through Jesus, we saw a whole new civilization of love.
Paul says, “to know the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge…” Ephesians 3:19.
This means Moses’ commandment of love cannot bring you into full expression of the love of God.
And till today, many are still living by “love your neighbour as yourself”.
But Jesus is inviting us to a higher dimension of love.
He said, “ a New” Commandment I give. It means from now onwards you don’t operate by the Mosaic law.
The Lord is saying, I bring you something new. The word for new is “Kainos”, it means freshness, recently made, unused, unworn, unprecedented, uncommon, unheard of.
It is not “new” in terms of time, but “new” as to form or quality, of a different nature from what is contrasted as old.
It relates to being not previously present; as set over against that which is outworn, the effete or burnt-out through age.
Beloved, this New Commandment of love Jesus gave was beyond any human comprehension and experience.
It is a supernatural commandment.
The new commandment of Jesus says:
“…as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”
This love is beyond the domain of men. It is beyond the standard of men. This is a higher standard of love. And no man can meet its demand. This is why God designed it to only be supplied to you by Himself.
This love doesn’t work just by utterance. It works by life. And you cannot wake up one day to just start loving as He has loved you unless you have received Him into you.
The greatest mind couldn’t imagine this love. He Himself has to be the picture of this love.
To walk in this love, you must know more and more the extent to which He has loved you.
“All this is proceeding along lines planned all along by God and then executed in Christ Jesus. When we trust in him, we’re free to say whatever needs to be said, bold to go wherever we need to go. So don’t let my present trouble on your behalf get you down. Be proud! My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:11-19 (The Message)
Glory to God!
DIG DEEPER
(1 John 4:9-10; John 15:12,13,17)
WE PRAY
That we will comprehend the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge.
BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
Genesis 30 – 32
DECLARE THESE WORDS:
– The love of Christ floods my heart.
– I have Christ’s ability to love.
– I walk in love.
– I grow in the incomprehensible love of Christ.
– I experience the fullness of God’s love in all matters.
– My understanding is deepened in the love of Christ.
Hallelujah!!!
He does not only demonstrate to me what I should do. He is become into me what I should do. Ooooh hallelujah…
Jesus’s instructions are life itself. I love.
I love the LORD Jesus
I walk in this kainos disposition. The commandment i have now is of life not external demands. Thank you Jesus
The Perfect law of LIFE
I have Christ’s ability to love.
I walk in love.
I walk in the consciousness of the supernatural commandment.
Oh Glory to God!
Ohh glorrrreeeeeyyyyyy
I grow in the incomprehensible love of Christ.
Love that never goes dim
Thank you Jesus for first loving me
What a Love that won’t let me go
Glorreeyyy
Jesus tells you to do is what He has become to you and what He has made you.
Thank you Jesus
I feel.like shouting
Indeed, through Jesus, we saw a whole new civilization of love.
Love made easy. Wow thank You Precious spirit
Ohh boi
I’m immersed in Jesus!!
A new form and quality of love ❤️
Where my love for others doesn’t flow from myself but it is issued from the Spirit of love-Dispenser of love in dwelling me ..
This takes me back to a few days ago Machaira , that says, “The Holy Spirit is in you not only for you to enjoy God’s love, but to make you a dispenser of the love of God “
I’m full of love. I love
Oh what a God of Love we have
An Authentic, Real and Geniune LOVE.
Hallelujah, JESUS, is the picture of Love, His instructions to me are life, they are the dispensing of Himself in me. I’m full of His love. This is reality, I love as He has loved me. Thank you Sir.
I experience the fullness of God’s love in all matters.
My understanding is deepened in the love of Christ..I have the ability of Christ to love
Hallelujah
This is beautiful
The love of Christ
” Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ” 1 John 4:10
Thank you Lord Jesus
How wide, how deep, how rich, how high the love of Christ is for me so I dispense unto many
1 Corinthians 13:4-10
My understanding is deepened in the love of Christ.
I live in the abundance of love of Jesus.. the greatest love ever..
Glory hallelujah
Oh thank you Jesus for your love.
Thank You Jesus for this knowledge. My love for people would be based on Christ’s Love. Gloreeyyy to God
The Love of God is shed abroad in my Heart.
Oh boi…..my love for others cannot fail
The newness of Life kaiiii.
I am God’s expression of love…..
I walk in obedience to his commandments with Him
What a Lord I have
Thank you Jesus
The new commandments of Christ Jesus supply life and ability to my bones.
Thank you Lord Jesus Christ.
My inner man has the ability of Christ Jesus and His love.
Gloreeeeeey to God.
God bless you Apostle Sir.
I am love embodied in Christ Jesus. Gloreyyyy to God
I have Christ’s ability to love.
Thank you Lord Jesus
Thank you Lord Jesus. I love like Christ
I have Christ ability to love I walk in love
His commandments are the dispensing of Himself.
Ele deeeeppp
Woow..Soo mind blowing
Still can’t wrap my mind around this.
I pray for the grace to understand this Love of God.
The source and the enabler,
The Author and the Finisher
The Alpha and the Omega
The first and the last
My JESUS IS
O Jesus.. without you I can do nothing.
Without you, I fall apart.
Glory to God
I don’t love my way
I love God’s way supplied to me by the Spirit
Thank you Lord Jesus. I love in the manner of the Father
Your love for me is beyond comprehension
I cannot meet the demands of this love by my strength so I depend on you for supply Lord
It is so wonderful that God made flesh came down from heaven to come down and die for us
I demonstrate this love to others by the in work work of the Holy Ghost
Thank you for first sending your son to come and die for my sins
“Yet we don’t see ourselves as capable enough to do anything in our own strength, for our true competence flows from God’s empowering presence”
Thank you Jesus for empowering us through the spirit
The love of Christ floods my heart.
I have Christ’s ability to love. I walk in love.
I grow in the incomprehensible love of Christ.
My understanding is deepened in the love of Christ.
I experience the fullness of God’s love in all matters.
I love asJesus loves
In My deep understanding of the Love Jesus has produced in me, I love others
I grow in the incomprehensible love of Christ. I love as Christ loves; a higher standard of love. Thank you Lord Jesus
Whoush, the love of God floods my Heart daily
Thank you Christ Jesus
I am full of love
God’s love beating louder in my heart
Oh I am the correct expression of his love
Thank you Jesus
I love you Jesus
I love men like how you love them