The Greatest Commandment - Christ responded to the Pharisees, as they tried to prove him uneducated and less intelligent than they were, that the GREATEST command was: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I can remember reading this passage as a babe in Christ Jesus and it resonated to the very core of my soul. I heard the Lord speaking through the Holy Spirit that my babe efforts to keep the ten commandments was better spent following the two Christ gave on that day to his body. The Lord lead me into the understanding that if I could make Him my center and my all and then just love my brothers and sister, He would be pleased with my heart. I have never forgotten that lesson and often will share the information with anyone that is a babe that God places in my life. We must come alive into Christ with Him as our Lord by giving Him our all - heart, body, mind and soul - this naturally takes place. I truly now understand what the old school church meant when they would talk about KNOWING THAT YOU KNOW. This morning the Spirit lead me to another passage in the OT that was the OT version of what Christ was teaching that day to the Pharisees and all of us. I wanted to share it with you today: Dueteronomy 6:4-15 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[b] 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, 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. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 10 “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, 12 then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 13 It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. 14 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you— 15 for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. May the LORD bless the reading of His words! (~:
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:39:18 +0000
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