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LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR. MATTHEW 22:35-40. WHAT IS THE GREATEST COMMAND?. Notice Jesus’ Answer. “Jesus replied, ‘Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.” Matt. 22:37. Jesus quoted Deut. 6:5.

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LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR

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  1. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR MATTHEW 22:35-40

  2. WHAT IS THE GREATEST COMMAND?

  3. Notice Jesus’ Answer • “Jesus replied, ‘Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.” Matt. 22:37

  4. Jesus quoted Deut. 6:5 • “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”

  5. Deut. 10:12-13 • “And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the LORD’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?”

  6. JESUS ADDS A 2ND COMMANDMENT • “And the 2nd is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matt.22:39-40

  7. A Quote from Leviticus 19:18 • “…Love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.” • This summary statement follows a whole list of commands in Lev. 19 about how to treat your neighbor.

  8. Mark 12:29-31 • Here He includes the SHEMA, repeats the 2 commands, and then says, “there is no commandment greater than these.”

  9. Jesus quoted Deut. 6:4-5 • “Hear, O Israel: The LORD (Jehovah is) our God, the LORD (Jehovah) is one.” • “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”

  10. The Golden RuleMatthew 7:12 • In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus summarizes it this way; “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”

  11. Luke 10:29-37 • “An expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he asked, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’” • A good Q with a bad motive. Jesus answered with the 2 greatest commands. • “But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?’” • “In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers…”

  12. The Good Samaritan • It may be a parable, but... • It may actually be a true account of a real incident. • Either way, the account is realistic.

  13. Who is my neighbor? • This expert in the law has a loophole. • Very few persons qualify as “my neighbor.” • He knew the OT words but not the true meaning.

  14. Matthew 5:43-44 • “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”

  15. Which of these 3 was a neighbor?

  16. The Priest • “He passed by on the other side.”

  17. The Levite • He too “passed by on the other side.”

  18. A Samaritan • “He took pity on him.”

  19. A Samaritan • John 4:9--- “The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” • “(For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)”

  20. A Samaritan • John 8:48--- “The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?” • This was a mocking slur on the virgin conception of Jesus.

  21. A Samaritan • He showed pity. • He loved those who hated him. • He risked his life. • He spent his hard earned money, 2 days wage. • He offered medical help. • He extended it beyond the immediate. • He was never rewarded or honored.

  22. A Samaritan • Who was a neighbor? • “The expert in the law replied, ‘The one who had mercy on him.’”

  23. What should be your response ? • Agree with Jesus. The most important command is to LOVE God with all your heart, soul, mind, and with all your strength. And the second is like unto it, Loveyour neighbor as yourself.

  24. What should be your response ? • Recognize your failure to do these most important commands. • Isaiah 6:1ff--- “Woe to me!” • Romans 3:23--- “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

  25. What should be your response? • Repent and do what God requires, but know this…. • Gal. 3:21--- “For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.” • Gal. 3:24--- “So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.”

  26. John 3:16 • “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

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