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Pray
Some tests we love, and some test, well, not so much.
Some test are just fun.
Let’s have one now -
This side of the church vs that side.
You each need a buzzer noise.
Practice those.
Good
What colour are aircraft Black boxes?
Bright Orange
Before Mount Everest was discovered what was the highest mountiain in the world?
Mount Everest of course!
Other tests are less fun, but really helpful - some of our children, and some of the youth here, may have just done some tests in June and July to determin their next educational steps.
But other tests are set up to trap us, normally becasue someone hopes to catch us out to make us look stupid, or to get an avantage over us.
Let’s try this type of test?
Tim Willers (Joe Klaprott, Greg Smidt), when’s your wedding anniversary?
Chris Sharp (Victor, Bob) - What are the date of births for all your chidlren?
And it’s that type of test that arrives at Jesus’s door step in this passage.
He’s already had a test to catch him out from the Sadducess, one of the 2 main Jewish teaching groups, and now it’s time for the Pharriseas, the other group, to try and catch him out.
Jesus, not being married or have chidlren, meant they would have to try and bit harder than we did with (TIM?GREG?).
So they got together in a holy huddle and came up with a plan.
The Pharisees loved the law of God.
They loved to lord their purity and piosness over the other Jews by boasting about how good they were at keeping the law.
Infact,
they were so keen to keep the law of God
that they went through all the detail of the OT laws given to Moses
and added all sorts of other laws past along by oral tradition
until they had a list of 613 rules to follow!
That’s a lot.
And this question is pretty clever if you want to embarass or discredit someone publically.
Obvioulsy some laws are greater than others,
not in the sense of whether they should be kept of not,
but in terms of the impact or level of sinfulness of the act.
So, do not murder is obvioulsy a greater command than the one in - that says ‘do not boil a kid in it’s mother’s milk’
A baby goat kid that is, not a real kid, that would be pretty bad!
And so, becasue Jesus is rocking the boat,
he’s already challeneged some of their interpretations of the laws they have,
and he’s a threat to thier public credibility,
they try this question out on Jesus.
What is the greatest commandment?
SO what will JEsus say
- is he going to say something that some of the Pharisees will try and pick holes in?
Is he going to say something that the Phariseea like,
but then might damage his public reputaion.
matt 22 37-40
and before they have time to think about his rather brilliant reply,
that was hard to argue with,
Jesus then asks them a question in the next verse and so ends up embarrassing them rather than the other way around.
Pause
Sadly the Pharriseas never quite comprehend the answer Jesus gives
- for if they had, it may have shown them somehting important.
In short the point Jesus was making to the Pharisees, and us today, is that - following a strict set of rules is not what God desires in itself -
what God desires is for us to love him,
and to therefore love others.
Get that right says Jesus, and all the law of the OT
- and well everythign the prophets ever said for that matter
- will flow naturally from it.
Love God and love others.
SImple.
So, we’ll spend the rest of our time,
thinking about what that might look like for us this next year.
We’ll cover it in 2 points
1 - Love requires All you have!
1 - Love requires All you have
2 - Love for All requires effort!
1 - Love requires All you have
This point is fairly simple.
When Jesus says
Emp - all
He is not implying you need to neatly subcatagorise yourself into 3 parts, heart, soul and mind as if you are somehow made up of 3 peices.
On the contarray - what is being emphasied is the word ‘ALL’
Everything about you needs to exude love towards God.
Not just your thought process, or your feeling, or your actions or even just your motivation of heart.
But all that you are, is to Love all that God is!
Perhpas a negative way to say it is that if you say or even think you love God,
but do nothing for or feel nothing towards him, isn’t really an option.
The best example of what true love is of course comes from God himself.
That’s why 1 john 4v19 says
God the Father didn’t just half-heartedly love you as if that would be enough.
No, He loves you with all of his heart,
all of his soul
and all of his mind.
He gave you all of his son,
to give us all of eternity with him,
He gave up all of his life
to die for all of your sin
to rise again to show you and share with you all of his glory.
What good would it have been for God to think about loving us with his mind
but do nothing about it.
Or what irony it would be for God to have heart felt emotional love towards us,
but not engage his thoughtful mind to save us in love!
No, instead he gave his all because he loves us with all that he is.
And so, if we have accepted his love towards us,
we ought to be able to love Him in response with all that we are.
And the second command is liek it, Love your neighbour - with an equal amount of ALLness!
Love requires ALL you have!
I’d encourage us all to reflect on what we do,
deceisons we make this year,
and ask ourselves,
is this the way to love God and love others with all that I have?
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