RELATIONSHIPS. Dr. Josimar Salum

RELATIONSHIPS

Dr. Josimar Salum 

Good morning, Daddy. Hope you're good. I would like to ask a question: " Does the Kingdom require us to start building relationships between ourselves first? Or relationships between us and God first? Can we go start having good relationships with God first to be accepted by God? Or start having good relationships with our neighbors first and go to God? What does the Bible say about that?

— You are already accepted by God. He has loved you and has chosen you. Don’t even question that. 

“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.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”” Matthew‬ ‭22‬:‭37‬-‭40‬ ‭NKJV‬

“He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.” ‭‭I John‬ ‭4‬:‭8‬, ‭20‬-‭21‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

There is no relationship with God if there is no relationship with neighbors. 

“For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.” ‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭14‬-‭15‬, ‭17‬-‭20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

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