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Guard the love of God in your heart: for Him, for yourself (for He loves you!) and for your neighbor. That He is Love, who forgives iniquity and sin, and who keeps mercy, is the Great Truth. If you have been told not to embrace His commandments after receiving mercy, you have been told a lie – His mercy is from everlasting to everlasting to those who remember His commandments to do them. Pharaoh did not heed the command of YHVH, nor did he obey Him, so his heart was hardened, and he chose death for himself and his nation. But God’s commandments reveal to we who are evil, what loving God and loving another looks like; and when we chose love, we choose life and blessing for ourselves and our descendants. Yet even the love we are to guard is not something we must conjure up, but it is parceled with His gift to us of living water in the Spirit:
“Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” –Yeshua, Joh 4:14
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