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We like to put a good deal of stock in what we know
Mark
and Jesus is reciting the opening words of The Shema, a prayer which devout Jews prayed.
Originally comprised of only , but later was added to from other Torah references.
So the Jews, especially the Jewish leaders knew this prayer like the back of their hand.
But it’s my understanding that they only prayed “Hear O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.”
They did not pray the following part about loving the LORD your God.
I’m sure that they knew it, however, because Luke’s account actually has the Jewish leader reciting the Shema rather than Jesus.
And he includes the part about loving God.
So not only did Jesus remind the Jewish leader about what came after the Shema, He also did something else.
Did anybody notice what Jesus included with His recitation that is not written in Deut.
passage?
You shall love Him with all your mind.
If this doesn’t bring a question or two to your mind, I think it should.
It does for me, anyway.
Why did Jesus add this phrase “with all your mind” to the Shema?
Why is this phrase significant?
Isn’t loving Him with all our heart, and soul (and strength in Mark) enough?
Doesn’t that include everything?
I think these short 4 words are almost overlooked because we don’t understand them.
We say to our significant others, “I love you with all my heart”.
Or we express our relationship with our best friends as being “soulmates”.
We think of Love happening in our heart and soul.
But what is all this about loving Him our mind?
How do we do that?
I thought that our relationship to JEsus was built on faith.
We never say, “Darling, I love you with all my mind.”
It just doesn’t seem very romantic somehow.
I’d like to take a few minutes this morning and delve into this concept.
Why Did Jesus add to the Shema?
Was He adding to the Law, which is contrary to How we understand God?
Didn’t he say, “Don’t add to the Words of this Book”?
Let me see if I can tackle this one without being too confusing.
First of all, the OT, where the Shema is written, is a foreshadowing of what was to come.
In our Anabaptist understanding of the Bible, we believe that everything points to Christ and we read the whole Bible through the eyes of Christ.
Everything in the OT was only a taste of something more to come.
Even prophecies which had fulfillment in the days of the prophets spoke of things to come.
Example 14
Isaiah met King Ahaz next to the pool by the highway and talked with him about Syrians planning to attack him.
And the Lord told Ahaz to ask for a sign.
Ahaz wouldn’t do it.
So God said, (ESV)
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign.
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
I believe that this was a sign to Ahaz and had fulfillment in his time.
But when the Angel came to Joseph, he told Joseph not to be afraid to take Mary as a wife because what was conceived in her was from the Holy Spirit.
(ESV)
21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel”
(which means, God with us).
Fulfill—Not the only and absolute outcome to this prophecy.
Rather, fullfill= to fill up with meaning, a completion.
Jesus Himself told the Pharisees that the OT was really about Him.
In he said that they search the scriptures thinking that in them they have eternal life.
But they were missing the fact that Moses was really writing about Christ.
Then on the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says in a number of places “You have heard it said…But I say unto you”
Jesus was not “adding to the law”, but rather filling it up with meaning
In a way He was saying, “The letter of the law is insufficient.
It’s time to start thinking about the spirit of the law”
Is it possible that this is what is happening here?
By including the phrase “With all your mind”, Jesus is “filling up with meaning” what it means to Love God.
I think it’s highly probable.
2. But if that’s the case, what is the significance of this phrase?
Why did He include it?
What does it mean to love God with all your mind?
I would like to submit something to you to think about it.
I think that everything starts in the mind.
I know that this doesn’t sound very spiritual or full of faith, but I think it’s true.
Why do we send kids to school?
Why do we come to church and listen to preachers?
Why when someone has the wrong idea do we say “He should change his mind”?
Because we know that what is in our mind results in action or a change in action.
We know that what is in our minds controls what we do and the direction that our life takes.
When it comes to God let’s consider this:
Everything begins in the mind
What is in the mind captures the heart
What captures the heart results in worship
What results in worship results in mission.
This can be applied to anything.
When I was a kid, I thought about airplanes.
I looked at pictures of airplanes in the encyclopedia.
I would run outside and try to spot one if I heard one flying over.
The more I thought about airplanes, my heart began to be captured by them.
When we moved to Canada, I got to experience them up and personally.
I loved how they looked, how they sounded, how they smelled.
I stood and gazed in awe as they soared off the lake and over the trees.
It’s difficult to say that I began to worship them, but I suppose in some way I did.
The thought of flying a plane began to be elevated in my mind.
It began to take priority.
And that worship moved me to mission.
I decided to do something about it.
Many of you can apply this to experiences in your lives.
Everything begins in the mind
What is in the mind captures the heart
What captures the heart results in worship
What results in true worship leads to mission.
The Bible has a lot to say about our mind because God knows that what is in our mind controls how we live.
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