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With All Your Soul
This week we look at the next important word of the Shema
our SOUL
What do you think of when you hear the word soul?
If we are to be obedient in our command, this is an important question.
What is our soul?
How are we supposed to love God with it?
SOUL - will, emotion, thoughts, desires.
Commonly understood as:
The part of me that will one day be with God.
(also called our SPIRIT) It’s the part of me that communicates with God - different dimension.
(praying in the spirit)
Worshipping in the spirit (Jesus’ instruction)
Mankind if made of two parts
Flesh - made for destruction
Soul - made for eternity.
None of those thoughts are wrong.
don’t want to change your understanding of what a Soul is
but i do want to deepen it.
Soul (Hebrew word is): Nephesh
(ne’pes - It actually has many uses in the Old Testament)
Nephesh = Person
“...there were 70 persons”
There were 70 bodies...
Headcount of 70...
This use of nephesh here points to the PHYSICAL body.
Nephesh = Life
Abraham wasn’t talking out his “body” per say.
He was talking about his “existence”
The thing that when lost, you cease animation.
God breathed LIFE into mankind.
Start talking about your desires, ambitions
“Want my life to mean something”
Also consider your “will”
Even evolutionist cannot give a good account of what how we get our will
Not tangible but uniquely YOU.
Nephesh = Soul
(Back story here)
Jonathan’s father was 1st king of the nation of Isreal.
(Saul)
Author just finished telling the story of David and Goliath.
Saul asked had him brought before him.
Then we come to 18:1....
Now we have definitely move to the core of our being.
includes the part of us that will one exist eternally with God or separated from him.
From this passage we also see another attribute
This is the part of us where we experience deep love and emotion.
So back to the greatest commandment!
What does it mean to love God with all of you soul?
Loving God with all your soul means loving God with all of your existence.
All of you body, your will, your emotion, your life...
This command is really all or nothing.
What if we didn’t love God with all three?
(what would that look like?)
Love with soul (emotion) but not person (physical body)
Person who comes Sunday morning and worships, participates in small group, leaves feeling refreshed
Monday morning they go right back into the world and living in the flash that is not in love with God.
Love God with our physical existence, but not emotionally.
Person the bible calls a hypocrite.
You do a lot of Christian things, but you don’t really love God on any kind of emotion or spiritual level.
Matthew talks about that type of person in Matthew ch.
7
Baptize in your name, cast out demon in your name.... “I never knew you.”
God wants us to love Him spiritually and physically.
After all that is the same way loved us is it not?
Isn’t that what we see in Jesus?
God is spirit and yet He became flesh and walked among us.
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