1 John 2:7
Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you,
but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning;
the old commandment is the word which you have heard.
The false teachers, against whom John warns the church in his letter, say: Since we have received that higher “knowledge”, new commandments apply to us. With that Old Testament and the Law of the Lord God given therein we have nothing to do. It is outdated”.
That serious misconception persists to this day.
Many people believe that the Old Testament only has meaning for Israel.
Nothing is less true!
God’s words never age, and they hold their eloquence until the Youngest Day.
The Lord does not require anything else in the Old Covenant than in the New.
That is what John means by our text.
In that “from the beginning” we have to go even further back than Moses and Abraham.
The Lord asked of the very first man nothing else but what he demands of you and me. And that is: love.
Love, first to Him, but also love to the neighbor.
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