Lesson 4157

 (Lesson 4157)(06-10-23) Matthew 22:34-39

    “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.”

    Although ALL New Testament lessons are VERY important, today’s lesson is one of the more important that is to be found in the New Testament.

    In the quote Jesus gave us the two “great” commandments. Our commission from Jesus is that we love God with all that we are, and to love our fellow man/woman as we love ourselves.

    Those are the ONLY things we are required to do in order to have totally fulfilled the intent of the laws that God gave to the Jewish people. ALL sin falls within the parameters of this commission from the mouth of Jesus.~