Love is Love Does Bible Class 2-4-24

From The Beginning God Loved Man

God Created Man The Perfect Place

Genesis 1:24–25 NKJV

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

God Created Man Perfect

Genesis 1:26 NKJV

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:27 NKJV

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 1:27 NKJV

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

God Gave Man His Perfect Word

Genesis 2:15 NKJV

Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

Genesis 2:16 NKJV

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

Genesis 2:17 NKJV

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Man Became Imperfect When He Disobeyed God’s Perfect Word and Will

Genesis 3:24 NKJV

So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

God Didn’t Destroy Man After Continued Disobedience

Genesis 6:7 NKJV

So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Genesis 6:8 NKJV

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Genesis 6:9 NKJV

This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

God Through Moses Taught Man How to Love Him

Why would Jesus say in Matthew 22.40

Matthew 22:40 NKJV

On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

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Because it is the summary of the entire Torah or Pentateuch as well as the entire Old Testament.

The 10 Commandments are the summary of the law and Jesus summarizes the 10 commandments through two great commandments.

The Name 10 Commandments did not come at the implementation of them but of the reference of them later.

Exodus 34:28 NKJV

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

The Hebrew in these verses translated as “the ten words,” from which Decalogue is derived.

Very important Commandments that are really the foundation of human interaction in a sense.

The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1 NKJV

And God spoke all these words, saying:

Notice God reminds them of His Love by what He did!

Exodus 20:2 NKJV

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Deut 6:5 uses the most commonly used Hebrew Word in the Old Testament Ahev.

Ahev assumes their is a relationship between people whether it be person to person or goup to group.

Love The Lord Your God

Deuteronomy 6:4 NKJV

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!

Deuteronomy 6:5 NKJV

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Ahev refers primarily to the love the will, the love of mind, the of action.

Ahev does not refer to the love you feel and emotions.

Ahev is the love of dedication, commitment, and nobility

Ahev does what is right no matter what i feel.

New Testament translation agape

agape love is the love of intelligence, purpose, and will as opposed to the phileo and eros.

Most people relate to eros love which deals with emotion and eros which deals with physical affection

Agape or Ahev love is the highest form of love. It is the love of purpose, will, nobility, purity, self-sacrifice, which is right, worthy, and comes from God!

To ahev love is to love God with all of our heart, soul, and strength.

We have to love God with all of our being

First 5 Commandments Focus On Man’s Relationship (Love For God)

Commandment 1

Exodus 20:3 NKJV

“You shall have no other gods before Me.

Commandment 2

Exodus 20:4 NKJV

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

Commandment 3

Exodus 20:5 NKJV

you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Exodus 20:6 NKJV

but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Commandment 4

Exodus 20:7 NKJV

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

Commandment 5

Exodus 20:8 NKJV

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exodus 20:9 NKJV

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Exodus 20:10 NKJV

but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

Exodus 20:11 NKJV

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Why was the Sabbath Made for man?

Mark 2:27 NKJV

And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

Leviticus 19:18 NKJV

You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Last Commandments About Man’s Relationship With One Another (Love For One Another)

Commandment 6

Exodus 20:12 NKJV

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Commandment 7

Exodus 20:13 NKJV

“You shall not murder.

Commandment 8

Exodus 20:14 NKJV

“You shall not commit adultery.

Commandment 9

Exodus 20:15 NKJV

“You shall not steal.

Commandment 10a

Exodus 20:16 NKJV

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Commandment 10b

Exodus 20:17 NKJV

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Ahev is about dedication to a relationship with God and one another through the entire being even when it does not feel right.