Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel* of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ will salvage you unto life eternal. But just what is the Gospel of Christ? Is it the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, who was on this earth 2,000 years ago? Is that the good news? Yea, verily, that is good news. However, as I will point out in this writing, to love one another as He loves us, is the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. For it is love that kills our outward man’s ways; buries him in baptism; and causes our inward-man (named Jesus) to resurrect on the inside of us. And, as this writing progresses, we will see together how this message has been overlooked by many of the brethren (being composed of both men and women − Galatians 3:28*) over the passing years. Also, in this writing, I give no new revelation amongst God's chosen, but merely a reminder to those in need, and of a truth that does not hurt being repeated.

Matthew 22:36-40

Master, which is the great commandment* in the [Mosaic] law*? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it [practically the same thing], Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

A commandment is the same as a law − as we can see from the Greek meanings from Strong's Dictionaries [see End Notes at the back of this book]; and we know that the law that was spoken of here, in our quoted scripture above, was from the "Mosaic law" − the law that was set up in the Old Testament and given to Moses, the great man of God. However, the old Mosaic Law [i.e. The Law given to the people by Moses] has actually changed . . . Did it?

Hebrews 7:12

For the priesthood being changed*, there is made of necessity a change* also of the law.

The law was then replaced with a NEW LAW. So, instead of observing a law after Moses, we now observe (and has been so for the past two thousands years) a law after Christ:

Galatians 6:2

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

This law of Christ is not a law for a fleshly creature, but is rather a law for a spiritual creature; instead of being a law for a son of man, it is a law for a son of God; instead of being a law for an outward man, it is a law for an inward man:

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man*.

And the law after the inward man is the law of Christ. And this new law says only to love one another:

Romans 13:8b

... for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

But which law has been fulfilled by those who love one another? Well, it could apply, actually, to both the old and the new law. Though, as we shall see, when we progress in this writing, Paul (in verse 8b) is specifically referring to the new law after the inward man. However, by 'changing' from one law to another, are we completely destroying the old law by the bringing in of the new? Almost as if the old law meant nothing at all?

Matthew 5:17

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil*.

Romans 3:31

Do we then make void the [Mosaic] law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish* the law.

And how do we establish the old law, while making it new?

Hebrews 8:10

For this is the covenant* that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind*, and write them in their hearts*: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

By having the law develop in our hearts [i.e. our minds], we do establish it . . . However, and it must be pointed out, that only the 'truest essence' of the Mosaic Law is written into our hearts − without all the baggage of the carnal ordinances, which were nothing more than outward rituals that merely represented true worship, that were also adhered to during the Old Testament period. But once the truest essence of the Mosaic law develops within (that is, this spiritual law, which is now called the Law of Christ), it is comprehended as only "One Word" for our Inward Man . . . One word? Yes, the law changed into only One Word.

Galatians 5:14a

For all the law is fulfilled in one word*...

What does that mean, into one word? The most important part of this writing will be the explanation of what one word really means...

St. John 13:34

A new commandment [a new LAW] I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Even though this commandment is not really new (as we can see from Matthew 22:36-40, our second quoted scripture in this writing), the changing and the fulfilling of the entire Mosaic law made it new. And how it changed, again, was going from natural to spiritual − it is now for a spiritual creature rather than for a natural creature. As Jesus was setting up the New Kingdom, He was also setting up the New Law.

St. John 15:12

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Now, by having this one commandment for a new law, to love one another, does this lessen the aspect of the foremost commandment in the Mosaic Law to love God first? Nay; but by loving one another we complete the first part . . . Observe what John says:

1 John 4:19-21

We love him [God], because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Like Jesus emphasized in Matthew 22:36-40 (again, our second quoted scripture), loving God and loving your brother are practically the same thing. And as I myself have emphasized before, this brotherly love is the very gospel of Jesus Christ. How and Why? Well, this love, as Paul had pointed out in Galatians, is summed up in one word. Remember him saying that? Even though, in all actuality, it's expressed in a "phrase", it is:

one word,

one commandment,

one LAW.

Galatians 5:14

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour* as thyself.

The word "even" in Galatians 5:14 is italicized, so it does not dictate that we should understand that word to mean "also" − as if Paul meant to say: "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, and it also means that you must love your neighbour as yourself." By the word "even" being stuck into the text by the translators at that point (which [as I point out at the bottom of the Table of Contents page] italicized words in the King James Bible* aren't emphasized words from the original autographs, but were merely stuck in by the translators for ease of sentence flow), then it's very possible that some unknowing person could allow their thoughts to stray from what Paul actually meant in the text. It really should have read, thus: "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, in this: You shall love your neighbour as yourself." Simple enough, just leave out the italicized word in this instance, and you can get a clearer thought on what the original autograph wished to convey to its readers − which is: "loving one another is 'one word.'" . . . However, and at the same time, I wish to express my belief that we shouldn't be too harsh on all italicized (added) words in the King James text, for most of the time the added words really do help us grasp the true meanings easier; but, with the knowledge of their true purpose, and of why they are even there to begin with, we can realize that we shouldn't rely on them as original Autograph words, and that we should be wise in our decisions to either respect or to ignore them in different instances throughout the text . . . Again, the many italicized words in the KJV can really help us to understand the original meanings of the scriptures; but as times change, the literary differences of today's phraseology is apparently different from that of hundreds of years ago, so that by the translators adding the word 'even' within the sentence, we cannot come to the conclusion that this didn't actually help the readers of that day and time to fully understand the essence of the original intended thought. Therefore, by modern understandings, it's useful for us to comprehend why these men decided to add the italicized words in to begin with (and, even more importantly, to know that they were smart enough to let us know when they did), and to even respect the help that they intended to give the reader, but also to be wise enough to not see this endeavor as an ignorant mistake on the part of the old translators.

But, moving along, it is curious of why Paul phrased it that way: one word. And I declare that it is no coincidence that he did! Let's observe further:

Proverbs 13:13-14

Whoso despiseth the word [prophesying about the approaching new law − which, in all actuality, always was in existence, but man wasn't ready for it yet] shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment [again, this new law] shall be rewarded. The law of the wise [of Christ] is a fountain of life [when was the Mosaic Law life giving? as Paul points out in Romans Chapter 7, it actually brings death], to depart from the snares of death [which, again, the snares of death being the Mosaic Law].

During the course of that scriptural quote, I made some pretty outrageous statements about the snares of death being the Mosaic Law. But let us quickly see what Paul said:

Romans 7:9-10

For I was alive without the [Mosaic] law once: but when the commandment came [you shall not covet: see verse 7], sin* revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

So, by Paul saying this, we can see that the law that is a fountain of life, as is pointed out in Proverbs, is the NEW law and not the old . . . But let us continue about the ONE WORD...