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Living Right Before God Is No New Thing

by Gale Wilcox
02/09/15
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The command to "walk perfect before me" is not "a new thing" nor is it "a thing of the past." - "Is there anything where it may be said, See, this is new? It has been already of old time, which was before us." (Ecclesiastes 1:10).

If we follow this particular statement throughout the history of the bible, we can see that this command existed not only in the old testament, also in the new testament, when Jesus came and re-enforced it again -"Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:48).

And this, in His absence, is what everyone of His Apostles taught in the early church, and should continue to be taught in the church today. Since we serve an unchangeable God, His word has not changed. What He expects of His people, has not changed. He is still holy and therefore, still expects that His people, whether they are from the old covenant or the new, to "walk upright" before Him.

The question that should be pondering in the mind of every professed believer of Christ is this - why was this repeated so many times? Just as, why does the pastor constantly remind the people to give, or pay tithes? And why do physicians constantly remind their sick patients to take their prescribed medicine? - There is a reason.

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“Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning." (I John 2:7)

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