You can’t disobey God and love God
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You can’t disobey God without loving something more than him. Can a person love God with all their heart, might, mind, and strength and still choose to do something other than what he wants, as far as they understand? To love someone is to prioritize them above everything and everyone. The Lord said: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” (John 14:15) If you don’t keep Jesus’ commandments, you don’t love him. Whatever you prioritize above obedience to God is what you prioritize above God.1
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- 1. If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple....So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26, 33) ↩