The Great Commandments

But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And 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.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”  (Matthew 22:34-40, NASB)

This passage from Matthew is about Jesus expounding on His “two [great] commandments.”  

As Jesus was in Jerusalem, about to take the punishment and execution that we all deserve, certain Pharisees decided to confront Him.  A Mosaic lawyer stepped up, “testing Him.”  The lawyer asked, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”  Jesus replies with a passage we now find in the book of Deuteronomy:  “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.”  Jesus calls this “the great and foremost commandment.”

“Christ and the Pharisees,” by Ernst Zimmerman.  Found at Psephizo
https://www.psephizo.com/biblical-studies/how-do-we-make-sense-of-jesus-commandments/.

But Jesus adds a second, which He says is “like it”:  “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  Imagine how different this world would be if we could execute on these two commandments!  It seems so simple!  Just how important are these great commandments? Jesus says, “On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”  The 613 commandments in the Torah can therefore be summed up with:  “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.  [And] love your neighbor as yourself.” 

In the morning, I pray “Shema” to remind me of Jesus’ two great commandments.  It’s in Deuteronomy, which Jesus quotes here.  I personalize it:  “O Lord, You are my God.  I shall love You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and with all my soul, and with all my mind, and with all my strength.  I shall also love my neighbor as myself.”  As I said, this exercise gets my day off on the right track.  It helps me to remember and to establish God’s priorities for my day.  This gives me great hope for my day!

Worship:  “Love the Lord,” by Lincoln Brewster 

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