The Great Commandment

Mission Statement

“We are a community of Christ-centered disciples who Love God, Love Others, and Make Disciples of Jesus Christ.”

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Matthew 22:37–40 NASB95

37 And 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.’ 38 “This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 “The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 “On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

Background

Jesus is in Jerusalem (Triumphal Entry Matt 21:1-11)

Teaching in the temple (Matt 21:23)

22:34 -silenced the Sadducees (Matt 22:23-32)

A lawyer (one of the Pharisees)

1. “What does it mean to love God?”

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 “Shema” - Hear

Deuteronomy 6:4–9 NASB95

4 “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! 5 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. 7 “You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. 8 “You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. 9 “You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

“With all your heart” - Innermost center - your desire.

“With all your soul” - the part that gives life - energizes you. What you live for.

“With all your mind” - planning and thinking - the structure of your life.

2. “What does it mean to love your neighbor?”

“who is my neighbor?”

Luke 10:25-37

“As myself?”

Ex: marriage Ephesians 5:28-30

Ephesians 5:28–30 NASB95

28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body.

1 John 4:11; 20-21

“What do we do when we fail?”

Galatians 3:23–25 NASB95

23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. 24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

Romans 3:20 NASB95

20 because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

John 14:15 NASB95

15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Matthew 5:14–16 NASB95

14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; 15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.