Hey, uproom, Larissa Miller here. We continued our conversation this week about loving your neighbor and looking at the life of Jesus and what he called us to, specifically when he told his disciples that the world would know that we were his followers by the way that we love one another.

I was challenged and provoked even as I preached this message,

and I hope that you are too, and I hope you're encouraged to abide in the house of the love of God,

in his love. Ab abide in the vine.

Bless you this week, remember you can do nothing without him.

Kind of continue this thread, not about marriage, but about loving your neighbor,

which we talked about your first neighbor being those, you know, if you're married,

that would be your first neighbor. So I want to remind you that it's interesting.

In the old covenant, it was, it's well known, you know,

the Shema, that the Jewish people pray daily, if not multiple times a day, includes the first commandment.

And so when Jesus was asked, what's the first and greatest commandment? Everybody knew what that is.

You shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your, you know, I'm getting it in the wrong

order, but you get it. And so we at upper room have been, been for years, just kind of

holding that key and actually loving God directly and learning how to worship him,

learning how to commune with him corporately and privately,

and that's still our main goal. But we felt like the Lord said, I want you to learn and be

as intentional with the Second Commandment as you have been with the first. I want you to study

it. I want you to throw all you got at learning that.

And so Jesus, when it was interesting, though,

when he was asked, what's the greatest commandment?

He just went ahead and tacked on.

No one asked.

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