text: Thank you for pointing out that we must consider Jesus as He is, not as we’d like Him to be.  We also need to remember that Jesus was born, raised and died an observant Jew, and that he offered a radical new interpretation of the Law given to Moses on Mount Sinai based on His law of love.  Fortunately, we don’t need to “define down” the fuller message of the gospel because Jesus did it for us, and in only four sentences: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind and with all your strength. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and all the prophets” (Matthew 22:36-40 & Mark 12:28-31”.  
  
  It’s easy to understand what Jesus was proclaiming, but not so easy to conform your life to it.  It takes a life-time of effort, and we just can’t do it on our own without the grace of God.