Why do people say the love Jesus Christ, but they don't do what he commanded

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them to do? please read Matthew 28 verses 19 and 20
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In Christendom, people aren't really taught the Bible at their church services. Usually the 'pastor' reads a Scripture or two, they sing a couple songs and then a sermon is given. They aren't encouraged to bring their own Bible,they aren't taught Bible truths, and in many cases, that's all people want to know. They're busy, they're distracted, they're apathetic, and going to church is many times an inconvenient obligation they feel.

I was a Lutheran for many years, and I just described what went on year in and year out at the church I went to. No one actually taught what it meant to 'follow Christ's footsteps', or what was involved with picking up your own torture stake. They were involved in raising money, helping planned parenthood, arranging abortions, and talking politics...you can't carry Christ's message when all that's going on. It was no wonder I left organized religion when I did, but I never left God.

I found the real faith and never looked back.
 
In Matthew 28:18-19, Jesus said, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name…" In other words, Jesus said, "I have all power, so baptize in my name." It would twist the logic of the passage to read it to mean, "I have all power, so baptize in the names of three different persons." In the other accounts of the Great Commission, the name of Jesus figures prominently (Mark 16:17; Luke 24:47). Matthew's "the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," Mark's "in my name," and Luke's "in his name," all refer to the name of Jesus.

We should remember that water baptism is administered because of our past life of sin; it is for the "remission of sins" (Acts 2:38). Since the name of Jesus is the only saving name (Acts 4:12), it is logical that the name be used in baptism. Jesus Himself linked remission of sins to His name: "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem" (Luke 24:47).

Matthew 28:19 does not teach three persons in one God, but rather it gives three titles of God, all of which properly apply to Jesus Christ. These titles sum up different roles of God or modes of His revelation; by its singular reference to "name," it focuses upon the one name of God revealed in the New Testament. That name is Jesus.

Further light on this interpretation that the name of God is Jesus comes from a comparison of Revelation 14:1 with 22:3-4. There is one name for the Father, God, and the Lamb. The Lamb is Jesus, so Jesus is the name of God and the Father.
 
They have never been taught, nor do most wish to be.

What they have been told is all they need to do is call out "I believe in Jesus!", and that is it. If it were so simple, everyone would do it, even the demons! After all, both Satan and his demons know who Jesus is. They know better than humans do. Knowing does not do anything to preserve their lives and neither does only knowing preserve any human life.

Not only the command at Matt. 28:19-20, but first having an accurate knowledge to begin with so as to know what and how to teach. There are many other things that those who truly follow Christ must do found throughout the Bible.
 
they are all missing the point, which is to go out and find ones. Jesus sent out his disciples to find ones who wanted to learn the truth. And not many religious groups do it. So they are not doing Jehovah's will by going out and tell others about him and his kingdom.
 
Matthew 28:19 was a command by Jesus to baptize in a NAME. The Apostles did not repeat the words of the command--they OBEYED the command. This is apparent in the following Scriptures:

"Then Peter said unto them,
Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost" (Acts 2:38).

"...they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 8:16).

"And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord" (Acts 10:48).

"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).

"And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him" (Colossians 3:17).
 
such as removing the beam from one's own eye before removing the speck in the eye's of another
 
Its because we arent perfect no one but God can keep the commandments perfectly :)
 
Many people who profess to be Christians either don't understand all of what Christ commanded His followers to do, or find themselves unable to obey these commands.

Jesus to some extent predicted that his way would be difficult.

It is also very possible that those of us who ask questions such as yours may not fully understand what Christ commanded. How do we know who has and who has not obeyed? I think in many ways it is easier for us--if we are honest people--to say if we have obeyed or not than it is for others to know if we have.

Following Jesus requires us to be honest with ourselves, and we often are the greatest victims of our own dishonesty.
 
they dont know how to do it.
for instance: love your neighbor, how to practice it?
love your enemy, how it worked?

islam consists of detailed practicing.
 
There is an old saying, "a rose by any other name is still a rose". Examining Matt. 28:19, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" we read the commandment of Jesus that all born again believers must be baptized. Is God a person? Is the Holy Ghost a person?

God is a Spirit and a Spirit does not have flesh and bones Luke 24:39

ngels are spirits but they also do not have flesh and bones.
A person is a created human being. Adam was the first person ever created. No angel is ever called a person. They are a spirit being, but they are never called a person. Likewise, God is a Spirit being but he is never called a person.

Only mankind has flesh and bones because only man can be a person. Therefore man is a flesh and bone person.

A human being is a person but has the likeness and image of the invisible God. All persons can die and this proves God as a Spirit is not a person. What is a person? Webster's College Dictionary says a person is: --a living or dead human being, an individual, a human.

A person can sin: --Num 5:6
A person can kill:--Num 35:30
A person can be killed: --Num 35:11
A person can speak wickedness:--Isa 32:6
A person can be unclean: --Eph 5:5
A person can die:--Ezk 44:25

God cannot sin. God cannot speak wickedness. God cannot be unclean. God cannot die. Therefore God cannot be a person. Trinitarians use the terms "person and personality" for God and the trinity and there are no Scriptures to back up this language.

God is one uncreated God (Isa 44:8).

The Godhead dwells in one only begotten human person (Col 2:9).

Jesus is the name of the glorified human person of the Godhead.

When the Lord God became man Jesus became a human person known as the Lord Jesus.

Lord = Adonai, El-Shaddai, Almighty, = God.

Jesus is the only begotten human son of God (John 3:16).
Jesus cannot be called Lord unless he is Adonai, El-Shaddai, Almighty and God. Only God can be called Lord in deity worship.

God's Spirit is the life spirit of Jesus: "Jesus cried My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me: and then gave up the ghost" 'died' (Mark 15:34-37).

Jesus is one Spirit (God) and Soul (person) and one human body.

God was manifested in the flesh (1Tim 3:16).

The flesh must be resurrected by the Spirit and cannot raise itself. But Jesus said he had power to lay his life down and take it up.

Jesus is Lord God and man or Jesus is not Lord Jesus.
Jesus is Father and Son or Jesus is not Lord Jesus.
Jesus is Lord and Christ at his birth (Luke 2:11) or he is not Messiah.

God is the Father of his own spiritual body. Few doubt this.
God is the Father of his own human body. Many millions doubt this.
God became Jesus the Son in human form.
Jesus became God by hypostatic union of Spirit & flesh.
Jesus as the Son is the human side of God.
Jesus as God is the Divine side of God.

Jesus is the Father in the Son.(John 14:10)
Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us. (Mat 1:23). God here is the Father.
Jesus is the Lord, there is only one Lord (Deu 6:4, Zech 14:9, Eph 4:5).
Jesus born of Mary is called the Son of God (Luke 1:35) .
There are not two Gods or two persons (Isaiah 45:22).
There is one God and one human person (1Cor 12:13, Eph 2:16, Eph 4:4).








Jesus and the Father are one person and one God (John 14:9).

If Jesus and the Father are not one God, then there are two Gods.

Jesus in his flesh is the Son of God (Rom 1:4, 2Cor 5:16)..
The flesh is subject to God (Heb 5:6-7).
The flesh is not God because the eternal God cannot die (Deu 33:27).
The flesh is the temple of God (Eph 3:17, 1Cor 3:16, 2Cor 6:16).
God dwells in Jesus as his Temple (2Cor 5:19). The tabernacle and temple belong to one God.
The whole temple of Jesus body belongs to one God.
If the temple-body of Jesus has more than one God in it, then his body is not the temple of the true God.

esus is Son (human) and he is God (Deity). Since there is one God, he is God and he is man.

The sonship of Jesus is not the Father because the sonship is flesh and human.
But, join sonship and Deity and Jesus becomes Son and Father.

The Father (as Spirit) is not the Son (or flesh), because the Father is Spirit and God, and the Son is flesh and human. If the human Son is a separate pre-existing eternal Spirit then there are two Gods not one.

Jesus as God and man can be called God and this is proven in that he is called Lord, a name for God in the Old Testament.

There is one glory of God.
There is one God, who is the true light, and Jesus is that light, therefore he is God.

When you get to heaven you will see only Jesus with the glory of God all about him. You can ask as did Philip: "show us the Father." And Jesus will say: When you have seen me, you have seen the Father.

Anyone who does not confess the Father and the Son in one are antichrist (see 1John 2:22). Now you know who Jesus is. Will you accept Him as God and the Light?



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Apostolic Believer In One God, Jesus
 
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19).

This verse is the foundation of trinity teaching. It would appear to refer to God as consisting of three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. So let’s look at the command and how it was obeyed.

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38).

It would seem, at first glance, that Peter misunderstood what Jesus told the disciples to do. But, look at Jesus’ command to baptize. He said to baptize in a name (singular). So what is the name of the Father, and the Holy Ghost? (We already know that the name of the Son is Jesus).

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, the everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6).

“I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not” (John 5:43).

“Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you , and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? (John 14:8,9).

Since Jehovah is one of the Father’s names, and Jesus came in that name (Jehovah is salvation), the Father’s name must be Jesus. Since Isaiah said that the Son who would be given, would be called “The everlasting Father”, Jesus must be the Father, for surely He is the Son that was given. Jesus told Philip that He was the Father. We can easily determine that the name of the Father is Jesus. But, what is the name of the Holy Ghost?

"Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you” (John 14:17,18).

“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his” (Romans 8:9).

“Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (II Corinthians 3:17).

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).

“Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow” (I Peter 1:11).

Can there be any doubt that the Spirit that dwells in us, which we call the Holy Ghost, is Jesus? He said He would come to us. It says it is Christ in us. Jesus is that Spirit. In II Peter 1:21,22 it says that the Old Testament writers were moved by the Holy Ghost, yet, the Bible says that it was the Spirit of Christ. So, we know that the name of the Holy Ghost is Jesus.

All the fullness of the Godhead is in Jesus (Col. 2:9). One God, manifested in three offices. He was the Father in creation, the Son in redemption, and the Holy Ghost in habitation.
 
good question. People in this life work for everything and they know they can't get it without working for it BUT they don't work for God's Mercy, they think they will earn it just buy mere belief.
- You believe that Sustenance come from God but you still work for it, you go to work?
 
Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24 and Acts 1 each give us a parallel passage where, in each case, Jesus commanded the disciples to preach the Gospel everywhere. In each case he promised that His presence and power would be with them and that the "NAME" was to be stressed in their ministry, according to the three Gospels. Matthew and Mark both name out baptism directly. Luke indirectly refers to it.

Matthew:

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.
Matthew 28:18-20

Mark:

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Mark 16:15-18

Luke:

And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high.
Luke 24:47-49
(Note the indirect reference to BAPTISM in Luke 24:47 - "remission of sins should be preached in his name" - See Acts 2:38)

Acts:

And, being assembled together with [them], commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, [saith he], ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts 1:4-8


ALL THREE GOSPELS MENTION A NAME which the disciples must preach the Gospel in.

Matthew 28:19 - "In the NAME of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."

Mark 16:17 Jesus said, "..in my NAME"

Luke 24:47 - "in his NAME.

The only way to HARMONIZE these references is to see that the NAME of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost is JESUS!!
 
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