Sunday, May 27, 2007

Love


Love is an amazing thing. The Bible says that love is the most important thing. Jesus taught love for one another. Over all of the centuries and millenniums of human existence, it all comes down to love. Jesus said that to love your neighbor as yourself is to fulfill all of the the Ten Commandments.
Matthew 22:36-40 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37 Yahushua (Jesus) said to him, “‘You shall love Yahweh your Elohim (God) with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 “This is the first and great commandment. 39 “And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” In Matthew 7:12, Jesus says,
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

So with this verse, Jesus was saying that love is everything. He sums up all thirty nine books of the Tanakh or Old Testament by saying that you should treat everyone how you would like to be treated. All those centuries and books, and all of those authors and leaders and prophets, all were saying that you should treat everyone as you would like to be treated, and all of this would be out of love. If you love everyone and treat them with love, then that is how you would like to be treated. So in the end, Jesus himself basically says that it is all about love. We are supposed to love ourselves and love everyone else.

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