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Gods Love and Justice Lesson 12 Love and Justice: The Two Greatest Commandments
Memory Text 1 John 4:20 NKJV If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? To whom is John referring in this verse as his brother whom he has seen? Who is easier to love, God whom we have not seen, or fellow believers whom we have? While it is true that we have not physically seen the Father, how can we see, know, and love Him? How can we make sure agape love is growing in our hearts and being manifest to one another in our church?
Overview God is love, and His kingdom is built on the principle of love. That principle extends both vertically, in our love for God, and horizontally, in our love for others. God s moral law is summarized in loving God and loving others and is spelled out in more detail in the two tables of the Ten Commandments. Greatest Commandments Greatest Sins Protecting the Vulnerable My Neighbor Summary
Greatest Commandments How did Jesus summarize the law when He was asked which was the greatest commandment? (Matt 22:35-40) How did Moses explain what it means to love the Lord your God? (Deut 10:12-13) How did Jesus express the relationship between loving Him and keeping His commandments? (John 14:15) What commandments of Scripture should we consider to be Jesus commandments?
Greatest Sins If we consider the greatest sins to be the flip side of the greatest commandments, what would be the greatest sin? What danger does the apostle Paul describe in fellowshipping with idolatrous practices? (1 Cor 10:20) How does Paul describe the end result of those who refuse the knowledge of the true God and pursue idolatrous worship? (Rom 1:28-32)
Protecting the Vulnerable How do the psalms reflect God s care for the poor and needy? (Ps 9:18; 40:17; 113:7) How do these psalms reflect the same concern as expressed in the Law God gave to Israel? (Ex 22:21-23)
My Neighbor What answer do you think the lawyer was hoping for when he asked Jesus Who is my neighbor? (Lev 19:18) What good excuses may the priest and Levite have had for passing by quickly on the other side? How did Jesus answer the lawyer s question: Who is my neighbor? (Luke 10:36-37) How should we understand Jesus command to Go and do likewise in a world that would so easily deplete our resources? How does the golden rule help us to treat others with love and compassion? How did the golden rule of Jesus differ from the silver rule of the rabbis?
Summary Love is the foundational principle of God s kingdom. In answer to a lawyer s question, Jesus cited two OT texts to summarize God s law: Deut 6:5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength, and Lev 19:8, Love your neighbor as yourself. While these two greatest commandments encompass the ten moral laws, they go beyond their negative prohibitions to enjoin a positive agape love relationship with God and others. Such a love relationship is possible only through the saving work of Jesus Christ who reconciles us to God and fills us with the Holy Spirit who pours out the agape love of God in our hearts and enables us to grow in love for God and others.
Summary The flip side of love for God and others is rebellion against God which leads to some form of idolatry the end of which can be the worship of demonic powers and all sorts of evil behaviors. All through His word, God expresses a special concern for the poor and needy, the widows and orphans, the sojourners and the oppressed, and the psalms pick up this concern by pointing to the Lord as the source of their help. God helps those who call upon Him by impressing His people to be compassionate to them and lift up those who are in need. In a spiritual sense, we all start out poor and needy, poor in spirit, recognizing our sinfulness, in need of forgiveness, oppressed by the devil, blind to the truth.
Summary Our greatest need is the forgiveness of our sins that brings us justification and eternal life in the kingdom of God. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus sought to expand the typical Jewish definition of a neighbor to include those they hated. His point in this parable is that our neighbor is anyone in need that God places in our path and gives us the means and spiritual discernment to help. Our challenge is to go and do likewise to neighbors God places in our path. Will you ask the Lord this week for an abundant filling of the Holy Spirit so that your agape love may grow both toward God and toward others?
Matthew 22:35-40 ESV And one of them [the Pharisees], a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" 37And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." [R]
Deuteronomy 10:12-13 ESV "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require 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, 13and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good? [R]
John 14:15 ESV "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. [R]
1 Corinthians 10:20 NKJV Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. [R]
Romans 1:28-32 ESV And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. [R]
Poor and Needy Psalm 9:18 ESV - 18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever. Psalm 113:7 ESV - 7 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap, Psalm 40:17 ESV - 17 As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God! [R]
Exodus 22:21-23 ESV "You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 22You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 23If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, [R]
Leviticus 19:18 NKJV 'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD. [R]
Luke 10:36-37 NKJV "So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?" 37And he said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise." [R]
Golden Rule and Silver Rule 12Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. (Matt 7:12) "Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you. [R]
