Jesus said: "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments" (John 14:15. This is the mandate for the Biblical concept of Love. The concept that some can love Christ and die-regard His Word Is without warrant or Biblical. We cannot separate God from His Word, therefore, too love God and Christ means that we must love His Word just the same. Here are some examples to consider:

1. "My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord, or loathe His reproof. For whom the Lord loves, He reproves. Even as a father, the son in whom he delights' (Proverbs 3:11,12)
2. "It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline ... Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?" (Hebrews 12:7,0).

Notice what both writers say about Love. A father who loves his own children will discipline them accordingly. In the same manner, our heavenly Father disciplines us when we stray or grow weary as His children. The question is Why? Because in both cases it is a manifestation of a Father's love for His children. True Love involves discipline. Where there is no discipline, there is no love!

In conclusion, if we say that we love God, then we are saying we love His word, and by this we know that we are His (1 John 5:1-3).