He was still speaking when a bright cloud suddenly overshadowed them. A voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him. Keep on listening to him!"

If you understand these things, how blessed you are if you put them into practice!

The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him."

If you keep my commandments, you'll abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

To those who do not have the Law, I became like a man who does not have the Law in order to win those who do not have the Law. However, I am not free from God's Law, but I'm subject to the Messiah's law.

and every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive in order to obey the Messiah.

You know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

in blazing fire. He will take revenge on those who do not know God and on those who refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

And learn

All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one fully knows the Son except the Father, and no one fully knows the Father except the Son and the person to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

teaching them to obey everything that I've commanded you. And remember, I am with you each and every day until the end of the age."

"Why do you keep calling me "Lord, Lord,' but don't do what I tell you?

So the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at Jesus' feet, dressed and in his right mind, they were frightened.

She had a sister named Mary, who sat down at the Lord's feet and kept listening to what he was saying.

I've set an example for you, so that you may do as I have done to you.

In fact, Moses said,

It was this Moses who told the Israelis, "God will raise up a prophet for you from among your own brothers, just as he did me.'

However, that is not the way you came to know the Messiah.

Have the same attitude among yourselves that was also in the Messiah Jesus:

The one who says that he abides in him must live the same way he himself lived.

For

He will not quarrel or shout, and no one will hear him shouting in the streets.

"Tell the daughter of Zion, "Look, your king is coming to you! He is humble and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt of a donkey.'"

Now the man Moses was very humble more than any person on earth.

LORD, my heart is not arrogant, nor do I look haughty. I do not aspire to great things, nor concern myself with things beyond my ability.

"Here is my servant, whom I support, my chosen one, in whom I delight. I've placed my Spirit upon him; and he'll deliver his justice throughout the world.

"Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion; cry out, daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king is coming to you. He is righteous, and he is able to save. He is humble, and is riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

When the days grew closer for Jesus to be taken up to heaven, he was determined to continue his journey to Jerusalem.

Now I myself, Paul, plead with you with the gentleness and kindness of the Messiah I who am humble when I am face to face with you but forceful toward you when I am away!

Instead, poured out in emptiness, a servant's form did he possess, a mortal man becoming. In human form he chose to be,

This is, in fact, what you were called to do, because: The Messiah also suffered for you and left an example for you to follow in his steps.

And ye

"Come to me, all of you who are weary and loaded down with burdens, and I will give you rest.

This is what the LORD says: "Stand beside the roads and watch. Ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is. Walk in it and find rest for yourselves. But they said, "We won't walk in it!'

We who have believed are entering that rest, just as he has said, "So in my anger I swore a solemn oath that they would never enter my rest,"

General references

He won't shout, or raise his voice, or make it heard in the street.

Indeed the descendants of Rechab's son Jonadab have carried out the command of their ancestor that he gave them, but this people has not obeyed me."

He will not quarrel or shout, and no one will hear him shouting in the streets.

They tie up burdens that are heavy and unbearable and lay them on people's shoulders, but they refuse to lift a finger to remove them.

Have the same attitude among yourselves that was also in the Messiah Jesus: