Mark 12:28-34
August 16, 2015, 3rd Holy day of the month
Rev. Tadashi Nagae, pastor
August 16, 2015, 3rd Holy day of the month
Rev. Tadashi Nagae, pastor
One of the teachers of the law came to Jesus and asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" Jesus answered:
The first is to love God with our whole body and soul. To love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength means to love God with our whole beings. That is because the LORD is the one who has created us and given us life, and He is the one who has redeemed and saved us.
The second is to love your neighbors as yourself. It is not good enough to just love God but also to love your neighbors as well is the will of the LORD.
We must remember these two most important commandments and respond to them. The first is to believe in Christ and accept him. It is not good enough for us to be close to salvation, but we need to be saved. The second is to walk with loving God and your neighbors. If one truly loves God from the heart, his/her love flows out as the love to his/her neighbors. Do our loves come out of the heart? Let us be such ones who follow the teaching of the LORD: to love the LORD from the heart, and to love our neighbors.
The first is to love God with our whole body and soul. To love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength means to love God with our whole beings. That is because the LORD is the one who has created us and given us life, and He is the one who has redeemed and saved us.
The second is to love your neighbors as yourself. It is not good enough to just love God but also to love your neighbors as well is the will of the LORD.
We must remember these two most important commandments and respond to them. The first is to believe in Christ and accept him. It is not good enough for us to be close to salvation, but we need to be saved. The second is to walk with loving God and your neighbors. If one truly loves God from the heart, his/her love flows out as the love to his/her neighbors. Do our loves come out of the heart? Let us be such ones who follow the teaching of the LORD: to love the LORD from the heart, and to love our neighbors.
<The Verse of the Bible>
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"
Mark 12:28 (NIV)
