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Mark 12: The Most Important Commandment
28 One of the teachers of religious law was standing there listening to the debate. He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
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Mark 12: The Most Important Commandment
28 One of the teachers of religious law was standing there listening to the debate. He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. 30 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ 31 The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
Sinclair Ferguson says, “God is never satisfied with anything less than the devotion of our whole life for the whole duration of our lives”
Two equal great commands… but shouldn’t Love God be more important?
This love your neighbor command does a few things:
First - It is a litmus test to see how much we actually love God.
WE KNOW WE LOVE HIM BY HOW WE LOVE OTHERS!
You can only love God to the degree of who you love the least… or hate the most.
Secondly - It proves how much we need Gods love in order to love those we don’t love. Right?
Jesus clarifies what type of Love.
30 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.
Question: How much can you love someone you don’t really know?
You must know God in all these areas to love him in all these areas.
-1 You must know his heart/ your heart must be pure to love him
We know that we are born sinners. We cannot fully love God until we fully experience his forgiveness.
WE can’t have communion with him/intimacy with him, until our sin is forgiven.
- 2 You must know his soul/emotions
This is simply aligning who you are into a flow of loving God. Using your personality, gifting’s, talents for him allows you to Love him through your soul.
The seat of affections and will.
I have said it a million times: I know God loves me, but he really loves me when I am speaking.
Scripture tells us the Lord delights in his servant - serving him in your gifts!
- 3 You must know his mind/his word
The seat of intellect.
The more you know Him and his word, the more you know him and then the more you can love him.
- 4 You must know his strength/power
Not just power or strength, but the Drive behind the strength.
His strength and power is used for those he loves… it’s to show off to the world how much he loves us.
If someone has unlimited wealth and power… it doesn’t mean you love them… until they use it to save you, serve you, rescue you!
