Love Fulfilled Ministry

If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say. 1 Jesus said the Father commanded him to speak, and theses commands lead to eternal life. The word for command used in most of the new testament is entolḗ (en, "in," and télos, "reach the end, consummation") – properly, "in the end," focusing on the end-result (objective) of a command . 2  This word highlights the nature of a specific order, charge, its in-context objective. Today the primary definition of command is different, it is to give an authoritative order, to hav...