God's law is a permanent, perpetual, and eternal guide for moral and spiritual conduct, expressing His expectations for Israel and the church. It is intended for human benefit, providing a reliable path for living and illuminating understanding. Jesus Christ affirmed the enduring nature of this law, declaring that not even the smallest part would pass away until all is fulfilled, as seen in Matthew 5:18. He did not come to abolish the law but to explain and embody it, showing how it must be kept in both letter and spirit. Central to this understanding is the concept of love as the fulfillment of God's law. Jesus taught that the essence of the Ten Commandments is summed up in two great principles: loving God with all one's heart, mind, body, and strength, and loving one's neighbor as oneself. These two commands encompass the entirety of the law, reflecting its depth and breadth. Loving God fulfills the first tablet of the commandments, while loving one's neighbor fulfills the second. This is not a moderation or relaxation of the law to accommodate human weakness, but a revelation of its profound spiritual character and perfection. Christ's life exemplified this perfect obedience to God's law, embodying love and reverence for God and respect for others. He demonstrated that true fulfillment of the law is not in adhering to humanly devised rules, but in living out positive love and mercy. Through His teachings and actions, He showed that the law's ultimate aim is to mold lives on these eternal principles, which will never pass away. By faith in Him, believers receive the strength to internalize and live by these commands, striving toward the goal of having God's law become second nature, as it was for Christ.

As God's called-out ones, we should have a far more mature understanding of real love, which is God's love. There is a vital, unbreakable connection between love for God and love for neighbor; they are not separate but closely interconnected. This connection explains why the world's shallow concept of love fails—they omit love for God, focusing only on love for neighbor, if at all. When we disconnect love for God from love for each other, both suffer. The apostle John emphasizes that loving God, loving our neighbor, and keeping the commandments are facets of the same principle. If we love God, we will love our neighbor and keep the commandments. If we love our neighbor, we show love to God and fulfill the commandments. If we keep the commandments, we prove our love for God and our neighbor. These are inseparable, working together as foundational tenets of God's way of life. Jesus Himself taught that the law and the prophets hang on love toward God and love toward neighbor, with every commandment reflecting one or the other. Jesus also equates the love we show our neighbors, even our enemies, with the love of God, urging us to imitate God's impartial love for all. He admonishes us to become perfect as God is perfect, indicating that progress toward spiritual perfection comes through selfless, outgoing concern for others. The love we show our brethren serves as a gauge of our love for God; if we love our brethren, we love Christ. Practicing real godly love for our brethren—through actions like feeding, clothing, visiting, and helping—manifests the depth of our love for God, visible to all and noticed by Him, even if done in secret. Perfection in God's love is achieved by showing love for one another. If we love one another, His love is perfected in us. To reflect the perfect character of the Father and Christ, we must practice and perfect loving our brethren, starting with those closest to us, as this is how God gauges our love for Him in preparation for entering His Kingdom.

Exploring the topic of whether Jesus would be considered part of the Christian religion and movement, it is found that sadly He would not align with the vast majority of doctrines taught in the major branches of Christianity. We examine throughout this message three main questions: what Jesus thought about God's law, how He worshiped, and what He will be looking for when He returns." As Jesus loved the Father, He asked his disciples to love Him and explained that the way to do that would be to keep His law. He emphasized His law and not the traditions of men, which at that time were the extra rituals imposed by the rabbinic leaders. When Jesus Christ returns, He will look for people who strictly follow and go beyond in the spirit of the law and not the man-made rituals. It is demonstrated that the law preexisted the giving of the ten commandments at Sinai, and it will exist beyond Jesus' death and into the millennium. We are encouraged to self-examine our own lives to make sure we carefully keep the commandments and not get influenced by the worldly traditions.

Deuteronomy 14:28-29 and 26:12-15 contain biblical instructions for the third tithe, a practice within the sabbatical cycle as a communal act of charity in ancient Israel. Collected every third year, the third tithe was designed for the Levites, strangers, orphans, and widows to protect them from financial loss or poverty, constituting part of God's safety net alongside the sabbatical year, symbolizing Israel's shared responsibility. God's people were obligated to declare before Almighty God that they had faithfully distributed the tithe, refusing to use it for personal, unclean, or improper purposes, but instead solely adhering to God's holy and spiritual commandments. The third tithe represents helping and supporting the helpless and vulnerable, reflecting loving God and neighbor (the two great commandments, Matthew 22:36-40). The blessing was applied nationally, supporting Israel's collective prosperity rather than individual gain. The spiritual nation, participating in the New Covenant, should seek higher blessings, such as repentance and unity, aligning with Our Lord and Savior's prayer for oneness in John 17, instead of selfishly focusing on physical or material provision.