Dear David,
Not only do I believe we can do these commandments from our Lord, we better be praying that we are doing them if we are to have any hope in the first resurrection at all. Of course, we can only do these things with Gods Spirit and grace (Divine intervention on the heart).
I disagree.
The truth is we cannot OBEY and DO ALL these commandments.
Jas 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
We enter 1st resurrection based on GRACE EXTERNAL imputed not imparted.
Rom 5:13 For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Jas 2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him6 for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
Imparted Grace aides us in our daily walk but we are far from perfected in this life even knowing the LAWS right now!
2Ti 1:14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
digitalwise
I wasn't speaking of the commandments in regard to the Law of Moses, the law. I was speaking of the commandments in Matthew 5,6,7 and the rest of the NT, the commandments given by Christ.
Mat 5:19
Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.Mat 19:17 So He said to him, “
Why do you call Me good?[f] No one is good but One, that is, God.[g] But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 18 He said to Him, “Which ones?”
Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ 19 ‘Honor your father and your mother,’[h] and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”John 14:15
“If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.John 14:21
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” John 15:9
“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
1 Cor 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing,
but keeping the commandments of God is what matters. 1 Cor 14:37 If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you
are the commandments of the Lord.
1 Thes 4:2 for you know what
commandments we gave you through
the Lord Jesus.1 John 2:3 Now by this we know that we know Him,
if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,”
and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is
perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
1 John 3:22 22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him,
because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 23
And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as
He gave us commandment.
1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His
commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His
commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
2 John V 6 This is love, that we walk according to His
commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep
the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Rev 22:14 Blessed are those who
do His commandments,[g] that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
Digitalwise, dear brother. I'm seeing a lot of commandments here from Christ that we're being told to both obey and do.
Jesus Christ Himself obeyed and did what His Father
commanded him to do. John 10:18, John 12:49, John 12:50, John 14:31.
Very often in the NT commandments ate to be both obeyed and done. In most of these scriptures the doing is the obeying.