The Great Commandment
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· 15 viewsThree keys to fulfilling the Great Commandment.
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Introduction
Introduction
It’s ALL, or Nothing. ()
It’s ALL, or Nothing. ()
Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
All your Heart, Soul, and Mind.
OT
Soul - 114
heart - 621
Mind - 82
Heart and Soul - 52 OT (Gen.-2 Chron.)
Job
Soul -12
Heart - 19
Never together. His heart and soul was torn apart.
The key word is ALL… all your heart, soul, mind, strength, arms legs, mouth, money, possessions, relationships, eyes, talents, future. ALL!!!… Or nothing!
Paul understood this and wrote in .
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Paul understood this and wrote in .
“He said there were two kinds of Christians: those who sincerely believe in God and those who, just as sincerely, believe that they believe. You can tell them apart by their actions in decisive moments.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, In God's Underground
It’s FIRST, or last. ()
It’s FIRST, or last. ()
This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
This is the first and greatest commandment.
Matt
First - Loving God with all is the FOUNDATION of everything else. The Word means, first in a series involving time.
Greatest - Loving God is the greatest thing you will ever accomplish.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Today, right now you have in your power the ability to Love God with all. You have the power to place him first in you life.
Love your other like you love your self. Loving yourself comes easy. The Second most important commandment is to other others like with love ourselves.
As communist atheists allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I'd leave not the smallest place for satan in mine.
Richard Wurmbrand
If the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus Christ, and if the heart loves Him, one can resist all tortures. What would a loving bride not do for a loving bridegroom? ...God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love. The Christians who suffered for their faith in prisons could love. I am a witness that they could love God and men.
Richard Wurmbrand
It’s EVERYTHING, or just one thing. ()
It’s EVERYTHING, or just one thing. ()
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Hang -
In a number of languages dependency as in may be expressed as ‘to hang on’ or ‘to be tied together by’ or ‘only have meaning because of.’
Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 777.
Our lives, our ministry, our successes only have meaning if we love God with are all and love our brother like we love ourselves.
As communist atheists allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I'd leave not the smallest place for satan in mine.
Richard Wurmbrand (Verum-brant)
Sermon on the Mount -
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matt. 7:
So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
1 COR.13:
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.