Love is the Measure | Gospel of Matthew

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

What is life about? John Mark teaches on Jesus's teaching on the two greatest commandments in the Old Testament: to love God and to love our neighbor. He challenges us to examine how we can arrange our lives in such a way that love of God and neighbor is our natural response.

Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 22v34-40

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0:00.0	Welcome to the John Mark Comer
0:03.0	Teachings Podcast by practicing the way.
0:05.0	This teaching was originally given
0:08.0	at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon
0:10.0	as a part of the Gospel of Matthew Series. As we continue our teaching series through Matthew's Gospel, let's stand together for the reading of scripture.
0:30.0	Matthew chapter 22,
0:37.0	24 to 40.
0:42.0	Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadduce's, the Pharisees got together, one of them
0:49.9	an expert in the law tested him with this question,
0:53.3	Teacher, a rabbi, which is the greatest commandment
0:56.6	in the law?
0:58.7	Jesus replied, Love the Lord your God
1:01.3	with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
1:06.2	This is the first and greatest commandment.
1:10.3	And the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself.
1:15.0	All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.
1:21.0	Take a young Gentile made a trek across the Mediterranean to visit Israel and to search out the great
1:37.3	rabbis of the day.
1:39.6	He found the two most famous in all of the land, Rabbi Shamai and Rabbi Halel.
1:46.2	With melodramatic flare, he stood on one leg in front of them and the crowd and he said,
1:52.1	teach me the entire Torah while I stand on one foot
1:56.4	which is how I like to ask questions as well by the way.
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