Amen Dear Sister Dorine. It is our love for even those who are nasty and hurt others that will make us want to reach them with the truth.
I was impressed with the truth that our obedience to all of the law will reveal that we will make it to heaven. All of the law to the degree we know it.
"This do, and thou shalt live," Jesus said. He presented the law as a divine unity, and in this lesson taught that it is not possible to keep one precept, and break another; for the same principle runs through them all. Man's destiny will be determined by his obedience to the whole law. Supreme love to God and impartial love to man are the principles to be wrought out in the life.
Some have trouble with this because they know that keeping the law saves no one. It is by grace we are saved. Yet, here we read that "our destiny will be determined" by obedience to the law. Both are true. Obedience earns us nothing. Salvation is a free gift given to all who make a whole heart surrender to Christ. The result of that supreme love for Jesus is the empowerment of the repentant sinner to keep the law, all of it. To violate one is to violate them all. Why? Because outward obedience is not good enough. God looks upon the heart. If we offend in one point, self remains alive and we are not abiding in Christ. "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all." James 2:10.
We may think we are keeping "the whole law," when we offend in one point, but the truth is that we are not any more than was the rich young ruler keeping the whole law when he refused to surrender all he had and all he was. Paul before his conversion thought he was "blameless" concerning the law.
"Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, [of] the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless." Philippians 3:4-6. Yet, he was a murderer.
It is the heart that Jesus wants, the whole heart. If we hold anything back, then we are playing a game with God. But, that does not mean we have to continue playing make believe. We can spend time learning of God and it will change our hard selfish hearts. It is a promise. A new heart He will give us if we will allow His grace to enter our hearts. By beholding His grace, His glory, we shall be transformed into His image (2 Cor. 3:18).