The Two Greatest Commandments Made Simple

"On these two hang all the law and the prophets." This Scripture-first guide walks through Matthew 22:34-40, where a lawyer asked for the great commandment in the law and Jesus answered with the Shema and the holiness code: love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, and mind, and love thy neighbour as thyself. Twelve chapters unpack the question in the temple, the heart and soul and mind of the first commandment, the Good Samaritan's answer to "who is my neighbour," how all the law and the prophets hang on these two hinges, the royal law in action, the love that first loved us, the obedience that proves love, and what the two commandments look like on Monday morning — every chapter pointing to Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior, Son of God and Son of Man, who both commanded this love and lived it. Love God. Love Neighbor.

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