After Jesus had made the Sadducees look foolish, the Pharisees heard about it and got together.
One of them was an expert in the Jewish Law. So he tried to test Jesus by asking,
"Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?"
Jesus answered: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.
This is the first and most important commandment.
The second most important commandment is like this one. And it is, "Love others as much as you love yourself."
All the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets are based on these two commandments.
While the Pharisees were still there, Jesus asked them,
"What do you think about the Messiah? Whose family will he come from?" They answered, "He will be a son of King David."
Jesus replied, "How then could the Spirit lead David to call the Messiah his Lord? David said,
'The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right side until I make your enemies into a footstool for you.'
If David called the Messiah his Lord, how can the Messiah be a son of King David?"
No one was able to give Jesus an answer, and from that day on, no one dared ask him any more questions.
We hear today the summary of the law, a summary which Jesus gives to the Pharisees. This summary says that God's law boils down to "Love God above all and love our neighbors as ourselves."
We must go beyond the 10 Commandments to let Jesus lift the burdens of our lives. Then we can love anew ourselves and others.
We need sermns, thought, meditation an d practical consideration so we can love better. We need to lover more creatively as church families. If we are to live as God wants us to live as a church family, we must deal with each other in a positive way. We must be
- supporting
- encouraging
- accepting
- listening
- respecting
- trusting
- negotiating differences
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