Falling Short of the Great Commandment

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Most of us can easily recite the Great Commandment. But not one of us has ever loved God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Today, R.C. Sproul underlines the seriousness of what God's law demands of us.

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0:00.0	Have you ever kept the Great Commandment?
0:06.1	Certainly God must grade us on a curve, and relatively speaking, I'm doing all right.
0:15.3	You see, when we read the Great Commandment, we ask, what is the Great Commandment?
0:18.9	We say, oh, we can recite that.
0:20.4	The Great Commandment is thou shalt love the Lord thy God God, with all of thy heart and with all thy soul and all
0:24.4	thy strength and so on, and thy neighbor as much as myself. I can say it. I say, have you ever
0:31.2	kept the Great Commandment? And if you're honest about it, you realize that you haven't kept the
0:36.9	Great Commandment for five minutes in your life realize that you haven't kept the Great Commandment for
0:37.8	five minutes in your life, that you've been breaking the Great Commandments steadily in
0:43.3	the last five minutes.
0:45.1	There's nobody in this room.
0:46.5	There's nobody listening to my voice who has ever loved God with all of their mind.
0:52.1	Maybe we love God with part of our soul, with part of our strength, you know, but we say,
0:57.1	well, so what's the big deal?
0:58.5	Nobody loves God with all their mind, heart, soul, and strength.
1:01.6	Nobody loves everybody in the world as much as they love themselves.
1:03.7	I mean, surely God isn't going to take that too seriously.
1:08.6	Certainly God must grade us on a curve, and relatively speaking, I'm doing
1:13.3	all right. It's no big deal. Wait a minute. If God calls this the great commandment,
1:22.4	and that the Bible says that on this hangs all of the law and the prophets, then to violate it must be
1:32.5	a grievous matter before God.
1:40.7	Thank you for listening.
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