“Rescued by the Great Commandment“, by Rev. Tom Duley
Pastor’s Message
How do we determine that which is most important thing? It’s an important and interesting question. For most Christians the answer to that question will in some way relate to our faith in God and our desire to follow Jesus. God is the ultimate reality for Christians. Our relationship with God animates and directs our lives. As the Apostle Paul says, “For in him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:28)
But even with faith in God and our desire to follow Jesus as a starting place we will all identify that which is most important thing differently. This morning I will answer that question as well as I can. My answer is based on my faith in God, my desire to follow Jesus and the way I have experienced God in Christ working in my life. I suggest that you might want to spend some time formulating your own answer to this important question. What is the most important thing for you?
~Tom Duley
The Word
Matthew 22:34-40
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 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 greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
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