And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
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… it would not really be a question. Number one, it could be the first commandment of the Decalogue, right, of the Ten Commandments. I'm the Lord your God. You shall have no other gods beside me. But there's actually another rephrasing of this from Deuteronomy chapter 6. It's called the Shema. and it's, it's, it's here, O Israel, the Lord, your God is one, the Lord alone. And you shall love the Lord, your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength. That's called the Shema. It was because that first word is Shema means here to here. And the average Jewish person would pray that prayer multiple times a day. They prayed it when they woke up, they pray it sometime during the day and they would pray it before they went to bed at night. And if there's anything that everyone would have agreed on was what's the greatest commandment is the Shema. It's, it's not, because you know this, we say this again and again and again, love God, love the Lord your God with all your heart. That means your whole will, with your soul. That, that word in Hebrew is efesh or nefesh, which means your whole life and with your mind, with your intellect. Basically the command is this, and it's so clear. The greatest commandment is give God everything. Give, give, all you have, all you are, love God with everything and give God everything. So here's the question. Why is this lawyer asking? Why is he, …
… Very powerful. By the way, that's Deuteronomy chapter 6, verses 4 and 5. When God says, when wisdom enters, well, listen. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, with all of your soul, and with all of your strength. This is what's beautiful about wisdom and about loving God. It doesn't mean, okay, the Lord is one and you shall love the Lord. Do you understand me? God's not saying that. Because the Lord, because Yahweh is your God, love him. The one who is devoted to your salvation. The one who made you for a purpose. The one who cares about you. The one that you can run to. That's why we love the Psalms. We read the Psalms. It really describes running to God in time of need, running to God in time of peril, or when we are stressed out of our minds, we run to God. This is an act of wisdom, and what a beautiful statement. …
… He's quoting Moses, of course, there, Deuteronomy 6.5 and Leviticus, I think it's 19.18. Now, when he shares this, at one point, somebody says, you know, what is it that God really wants? And he shares these two commandments. And the person says, yeah, but, you know, who is my neighbor? Right. And so it's interesting when Jesus goes to answer that question, he's going to answer two questions, really. He's going to answer first, who is it that we have to love? Right. And, and, and the man was kind of asking, who don't I have to love? Right. Who, who's, who's, you know, who's excused from that because they're not really my neighbor. So Jesus is going to ask, answer the question, who do you have to love? And then he's going to answer the question that the man didn't ask. And that is, what does it look like to love? What does love really look like? Which again, is not primarily a feeling. It's a way of acting for the good of others. …