Serve your God

We are continuing our series this morning Our House.

When you ask someone what they think about the church, be prepared for any response. What they say may inspire feelings of anger, sadness, joy, or hope, depending on what they have experienced in their dealings with believers. This four-week series for adults explores four congregational values that should define our relationships with those inside and outside the church. When we fulfill our biblical call to the four c’s—commission, community, commandment, collaboration—we can be the church that glorifies Jesus.

So far we have covered two C’s out of the four.

Commission- We are all called to make an impact in other around us. Its more than just yelling or telling someone that they are a sinner and will burn in hell. Making an impact is show that person love and what it looks like to follow Christ. You can know all the book knowledge about what the bible say but if you do not show love to other than whats is the point.

Community- We are all part of a great body of believes and we cant do this without every part. God make no distinction in colour of skin or where you live. Why should we. We are all part of the community body growing together. Doing life together. Being there for one another. We should be unity in all fronts and stop fight over the little things.

This week we will be looking that our next C Commandment.

If you have your bible turn to Matthew 22:34-39. If you do not have your bibles you can follow along on the screen in a few moments.

Before we look at the passage for today I have a question for you.

What comes to mind when I commandments?

what are commandments? Do you have to follow them? Are they just a guide?

Or do should you try your best to keep them?

The term commandments means.

divine rule, an ordinance, injunction, command, law

We have some types of commandments that we would be following. Where it be traffic law, or law of made by the government. There are some that are more important then any others.

When we here the word commandments we often look to the 10 commandments that God laid out for the Isaelites in Exodus 20:3-17 .

Do not have other gods beside me

Do not make an idol for yourself

Do not misuse the name of the God

Remember the Sabbath Day

Honour your father and mother

Do not murder

Do not commit adultery

Do not steal

Do not give false testimony

Do not covet your neighbour’s house

we think of all of this but in Matthew Jesus says something about all of this lets take a look at what Jesus said.

Matthew 22:34–40 CSB

34 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they came together. 35 And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test him: 36 “Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest?” 37 He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the greatest and most important command. 39 The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. 40 All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”

Pharisees ask “Which commandments is great?”

The pharisees and Sadducees were always trying to trip Jesus up by asking hard question. So that Jesus would say the wrong thing and they would have a reason to say he is not who he says to be.

right before this passage Jesus tell the Sadducees when they ask a tough question about death. Jesus answered them

Matthew 22:32 CSB

32 I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

Pharisees ask “Which commandments is great?”

The Pharisees thought they could trip Jesus up better than the Sadducees but they were wrong like always. This group of men want Jesus to list out all the commandments. But inside Jesus only list two. The whole Ten commandments can be summed up in this two commandments that we read this morning.

Matthew 22:37–39 CSB

37 He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the greatest and most important command. 39 The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Love the Lord your God

Jesus totally shock the Pharisees when he said this. They are think we got Jesus here. He can not just pick one. They wanted him to say all or something like that. You see when Jesus said love you God that summed up the first four of the 10 commandments in to one. The question that you might be think right now is. How do I love the God? What does it mean with your whole heart, whole soul, and mind?

Love the Lord your God with all

Your whole heart

what do we have to do to love God with whole heart? Loving God with your whole heart is not putting him in a box on and only allow him to come out on Sunday. I think we have all done this at some time in our lives. We come in on Sunday get our fill and then go about our day life during the week not thinking of who God is at all during the week. In order to love with your whole heart you must be willing to allow God into your whole heart all the time.

Your whole soul

Your soul this is who we are. God should be part of us and we should be different for other around us. When you love God with your whole soul is love pours out of you too.

Your whole mind

this is the hard one. Our human minds wonder a lot. If you are anything like me. My mind can never stay on one thing at a time. Sometime it can be hard to love God with our minds. We have a million thing going on and some are not good thing. We have to be willing to love God in every thought and action.

The other commandment Jesus said

Love your neighbour

This right here sums up the rest of the ten commandments. IF we choice to not love then there is no point. You and I must be willing to love other around us.

Jesus cuts through the noise of the law of Moses to focus us in on these two truths: Love God and Love others

The greatest commandment means that the believer’s love of God ought to overflow to loving others in a genuine way. Our theology and our service do not stand alone but work in tandem. Good theology leads to loving action, and loving action is rooted in good theology.

Do you love God in this way?