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Love People
Love People
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 22:38-
Recap Last Week
Love God
Jesus was being approached by people, the religious leaders at the time- the Sadducees, the scribes and the Pharisees.
They were asking him questions.
The disciples of the pharisees struck out.
The Sadducees swung and missed
And know the Pharisees thought they had Jesus! It was their chance to take down the big guy!
They had asked a question that was a classic debate that most Jew people had.
What is the greatest commandments?
Jesus answers back first saying, actually reciting a passage from Deut. 6
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deut 6:
You shall love God!
Love God with all you have.
Love God with your heart
Love God with your desires
Love God with your soul
Love God with your actions
Love God with your mind
Love God with your thoughts
Jesus could have stopped there, I mean he answered their questions wasn’t that enough.
Jesus adds a second commandment that is also very foundational.
Here is where we pick up!
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Let’s pray
So lets look at the first thing Jesus says after saying what the people around him would have been the end of the greatest commandment.
Jesus says; wait there is more, and the second is like it.
This phrase here means that the second is of equal importance.
The first begin Love God,
The second: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus is quoting again from the OT.
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Lev
Who is your neighbor— This is not like the book that ask are you my mother where the bird as a crane if it is his mother.
Our neighbors are everyone we come in contact with.
It is our friends, our family, that students that is all by themselves always, its the geek, the jock, the homeless man just trying to get warm, it is everybody and anybody.
Jesus isn’t making a grand jester saying just love your neighbors, he is literally saying, love all as you would love yourself.
I do not know about y’all but I love myself.
Maybe not enough to work out, but lets be real no one enjoys it and test me my body hates it!
I mean
But i do love myself.
I feed me
I cloth me
I take care of me
If something looks scarry and i will most likely die by doing said thing, i will not do that thing.
I protect me
It is all about me and I love me, nobody hates themselves.
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians
That passage is taking about husband and wives, but I do believe that we can glen wisdom from this passage.
No one hates their own flesh but they cherish it and nourish it.
Love as you love yourself
I have seen some of your instagrams and I know that you all love yourself!
Love people the same as you love you!
Love people— this is the heart of what Jesus is getting at.
We are to Love God and love people.
Why, keep reading verse 40
On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
These two commandments, Love God and Love people, sum up the Law— The Old Testament— the law that the prophets were following.
The jewish people knew these laws but the two were never combined.
Jesus was the first to fuse these to laws together.
All of the Old Testament Laws hang on these two commandments.
Look at the ten commandments.
No other God’s before me
You shall not make an idol
You shall not take the Lord’s name in vain
Remember the sabbath day
Honor your father and mother
Don’t murder
Don’t commit adultery
Don’t Steal
Don’t bear false witness against your neighbor
Don’t covet after others.
The first 4 hang with Love God, If you love God you will not put others before him.
If you love God then you will not make an idol of God
If you love God will not use His name improperly or in a way that is disrepectful
If you love God you will remember the day of rest that God has give, not to be lazy, but to enjoy your relationship with God.
The last 6—
If you love people
You will honor mom and dad
you won’t kill anybody
you won’t cheat on your spouse, girlfriend/boyfriend nor will you cause someone’s significant other to do the same.
You won’t steal from them
You will be honorible to your neighbors
You will be grateful for what you have and thankful for what others have around you.
These two commands sum up all the laws.
Love God and Love People
It is so simple it makes me go, there as to be more.
The New American Commentary: Matthew 1. True Discipleship versus Harsher Condemnation for the Jewish Leaders (19:1–22:46)
The relationship of all the Old Testament to the double love commandment shows that there is a hierarchy of law that above all requires one’s heart attitude to be correct. If this is absent, obedience to commandments degenerates into mere legalism
Tell me more, and I can promise you that this is it.
Now you have some questions to ask.
First and foremost—
Points
Love God
Are you loving?
Are you loving?
Love
I mean if you were to ask this to us, I think we would all say yes.
But would we say yes because we are or because no one would dare say no to that question.
What is loving— a good ruler for this is found in 1 Corinthians
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Love NEVER ENDS
1 Corinthians 13:4-
Are you patient with those around you?
I have to have patience right now when my dad calls.
Let me tell you a little about my pops.
I love him to death, he is wonderful
He just got a new job that he has to do a lot more technology stuff with and my father is not techie at all!
So he will call me, and if I don’t answer he will call me again, and again and again.
At this point I think he is dying right, he is a ditch somewhere and here is the final time i will talk with him
I call him back and he answers normally and says he i have a computer problem.
OH MY!
Are you kind?
Do you mock people because they are different then you?
Do you encourage others?
Are you willing to go out of your way to be kind to someone, grabbing a door, picking up trash, saying hello.
Does everything have to be your way?
Or are you able to let others chime in?
Love does not rejoice when wrongs are happening
Do you stop it or do you just tag along.
Now love does not mean that we are tolerant of all things at all times to all people.
Love rejoices in the truth still.
So again— the questions is are you loving?
Secondly:
Why do we obey?
Why do we obey?
I mean why do we obey?
To receive a reward?
To get a trophy?
To get an attaboy at the end of life?
Are we doing what we do because God is making us?
Or are we doing all of these because we know it is the right thing to do?
The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to Matthew 1. Attempts to Trap Jesus, 22:15–46
“Jesus swept aside all such pettifogging nonsense with his revolutionary insistence on the centrality of love and for good measure he added that the teaching of the prophets is included in this command. At one stroke he did away with any understanding of the service of God that sees it as concerned with the acquiring of merit or with an emphasis on liturgical concerns. What matters can be summed up in one word: love.”
The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to Matthew 1. Attempts to Trap Jesus, 22:15–46
But Jesus is saying that it is only when we love that we can truly obey them and that without love we do not really understand what the commandments mean. In one way or another all the commandments are expressions of God’s love. Love is the thrust of them all, and it is only as we love that we fulfil them.
Love by obedience.
Love for God shows that we are being faithful to him
Love goes beyond the specific requirements of keeping the law
We get to a place of legalism— Legalism can be dangerous when we begin to keep commandments and laws from God so that we look good to God.
Love isn’t legalism it.
Love understands and can I say something about being judgmental.
We have no place to be judgmental.
The people who do not want to follow after Christ leave them to their own desires and thought because they will get theres.
God is going to judge them at the end of time and He will avenge us.
Meaning right now since we have love, love is all that we can give, we still speak truth but in love.
The last question is:
What does love require of us?
What does love require of us?
I think every situation is different.
Truth is not different, truth never changes.
We are called to love.
Maybe love requires us to give more of our time to others.
Maybe love requires you to speak truth in a siblings life that just keeps getting caught up in bad situations.
Maybe the most loving thing you can do for someone today is give them a hug and tell them you are sorry.
Love takes a toll, it is not easy.
But if you do all things in love then you will be loving.
Loving people care, loving people see needs and do them.
Loving people are willing to give it all and never expect a return.
Love requires a lot of us, but it is all worth it because we follow a King and our King is good and he is great and he is worthy of our love.
Questions:
What is love to you?
Why are we called to love?
How are you loving to those around you?
What are some ways you can be more loving?
