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UNDER CONSTRUCTION
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The Greatest Commandments
The Greatest Commandments
Matthew
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Both Commandments use AGAPE
Both Commandments use AGAPE
Just like
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
The two commandments are not the same nor are they equal
The two commandments are not the same nor are they equal
Love God First
Then love others
Oh, and they Are COMMANDS!!!!
Oh, and they Are COMMANDS!!!!
They are NOT Options
These are Commands given by Jesus - Emmanuel - God with us
These are Commands given by Jesus - Emmanuel - God with us
Pretty Serious
Eternal Consequences
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Notice the Conditional language Jesus uses! - IF...
Notice the Conditional language Jesus uses! - IF...
So Why is it So HARD
So Why is it So HARD
To follow the commandments
to Love - Agape style
To be a Doer and not just a Hearer