Dr John

Deuteronomy 32:46-47 -- Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today! You must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law. For this is no idle word for you! It is your life! By this word, you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan River to possess.

Jesus emphasizes the priority of putting God first not only in his pronunciation of the Great Commandment, but also in Matthew 6:33 -- “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.”

James 1:22 – “Do not merely listen to the Word. Do what it says.” [JHK Note: Take a look in your Bible Concordance – immediately after “Word” comes “Work.” Noah got the Word to build an Ark and then spent a hundred years doing the Work to build that Ark and so saved himself and his family from the Flood Judgment by FOA = Faith – Obedience – Action.]

John 4:1-42 -- Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at a well in the city of Sychar. This is an extended episode resulting in many converts, but also contains this important exchange: “The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming’ (who is called Christ). ‘When he comes, he will tell us all things.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I who speak to you am He.’”

There is a resonance between the Old Testament and the New Testament, and a primary example of this is the relationship between Moses & the Four Books about Moses in the Old Testament .. and Jesus & the Four Books about Jesus (the Gospels) in the New Testament.

Genesis 1:28 – “God blessed them and said to them ... ‘Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the Earth.’”

God wants the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth through happy families beginning with one man and one woman and their children. Had Eve and Adam adhered to God’s one command, they would have grown to physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual maturity

1 John 4:16 -- “God is love and he who abides in love abides in God and He in him.”

Genesis 6:5-6 – “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually; so the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the Earth, and He was grieved in His heart.”