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LOVE GOD
Intro:
I trust you all had a great easter!
I hope that you were able to spend time with family and friends but most importantly you had a chance to celebrate KING JESUS!
We have two weeks left of messages, tonight and next week, then we are off for mothers day— Celebrate your MOM!
Then we come back for our senior night!
Which is a breakout night for everyone else.
You can decide what you are going to do but you have to be back here by 7:30 as we celebrate the seniors!
Then we are off the next week due to graduations and what have you.
Then we kind of soft launch into a new year.
The 8th grades will be joining us over the summer they can start June 2!
We will be here at Bethel, as we kick off our summer nights!
We will be here for that night and then we meet at other people’s houses the rest of the summer!
I should have a calendar next week for everyone!
That is what the next month looks like here at BSM!
So as the year was winding down, I wanted to close out the year with talking about the greatest.
The greatest is referring to something Jesus said in the book of Matthew chapter 22.
I have found myself going to his passage often this year, when dealing with hot topics, I would ask the question what does love require of us.
The whole idea is that if we love God and we truly love Him, then how do we respond to people?
What does it mean to be loving to Christians?
What does it mean to be loving to Non-Christians, Jews, Hindu, Buddist, Muslims?
What does it mean to love someone who is transgender, or claims to be gay?
How about someone who is dealing with a hard time of life?
When depression hits?
When you have people running your name through the mud?
What does love require of us?
What does God require of us?
That is the ultimate question that we have to come face to face with in the next two weeks.
Lets start by praying and then we will dive into the text!
Matthew 22:34-
So verses 39-40 we will look at next week but this week we are going to focus on verse 34-38.
So lets unpack this a bit:
Jesus was being approached by people, the religious leaders at the time- the Sadducees, the scribes and the Pharisees.
Jesus was in consistent battles with them!
We pick up with Jesus being asked two questions previous to this one.
Here is why they were asking questions look at verse 15
Matthew 22:15
They were trying to trip Jesus up!
They wanted him to fail.
Meaning that they are going to ask him some hard questions!
So they ask three total question here are the first two.
The first one up was the pharisee’s disciples
Jesus responds by saying give me coin
who is on the coin- they say Caesar.
Jesus then says then yes give it to Caesar!
Yet give to God what is God’s
They marveled at him and then left.
Next up the Sadducees.
Matthew 22:
Matthew 22:
They give this example of a man and wife and the man dies and in jewish custom the wife would then pass to the brother
The first husband has 7 brothers:
First up up they marry no children
#1 Husband dies
She goes to the next brother
They marry no children
#2 Husband dies
They go to the next brother
They marry no children
#3 Husband dies
They go to the next brother
They marry no children
#4 Husband dies
I think you get the idea all the way down to number 7, what do you know he also dies, no kids nothing
Here is the question they ask!
Jesus responds
You are wrong!
You do not understand the resurrection, which they did not believe in anyway,
They were sadducees because they did not believe in the resurrection.
THEY WERE ASTONISHED!
Here is what we have the next question!
The pharisees are up!
They just saw Jesus work over the other two groups.
You can just picture them all huddled togehter
And then emerges a lawyer (an expert in the LAW) from the mist, who a question so hard they know he won’t get it right!
Teacher! which is the greatest commandment in the LAW!
OH SNAP!!!!
The Pharisees just thought they laid down the hammer!
Why this question!
These Pharisees were experts in the law and they know the law- the OT front back and upside down!
So why this question.
This was a hotly debated topic in Jewish circles at the time
Whatever Jesus was going to say here was going to argued against the pharisees.
The pharisees where going to say nope that law is lower to this one!
I am sure Jesus is annoyed by this point, because he often got annoyed with silly questions.
Jesus knows what they are trying to do and he not give them a chance to trip him up:
This is what he says:
BOOOOM MIC DROP!
Matthew 22:34-
No rebuttal
No objection
Nothing
The Pharisees were waiting for Jesus to most likely quote one of the ten commandments.
They thought they were going to trip Jesus up with the great commandment debate question and Jesus just threw them a curve ball that they could not answer back to.
The Pharisees were waiting for Jesus to most likely quote one of the ten commandments.
Because if Jesus would have responded with I think all the ten commandments are perfect they would have said we said only one!
If he would have said well keep the sabbath holy, they would have responded with— So you think that not making an idol of God is less important then keeping a day holy!
If Jesus answered this way he was going to be met with a challenge no matter what he said!
Jesus decides to quote:
Then he goes even further and quotes:
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