Lesson 3218

 (Lesson 3218)(10-25-20) Matthew 22:34-40

    “ But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

    In today’s lesson, Jesus said, in essence, that there are only two commandments that should matter because all the others are covered by them. Those two “great” commandments” being that we should love God for all that we are, and to love everyone else as we love ourselves. Because of our own God given free will, those of us who have accepted Christ are ONLY repsonsible for those two “great” commandments.

    The Commandments still apply to those of us who are eternally saved, but ONLY in that we will be judged for the things we have done when Jesus sits before us at the “judgment seat of Christ”. That judgment will NOT be to determine who is going to hell, it will be held to reward and honor the saints. ~