Love is the Measure

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

From the series "Gospel of Matthew." In this well-known but little-understood teaching of Jesus, we discover that love is the measure of spiritual maturity. Nothing else. And that Jesus’s definition of love is very different from that of our host culture. Yet again, Jesus’ life and vision is incredibly compelling and offers us a new way to be human.

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0:00.0	Please turn to your Bibles to Matthew chapter 22.
0:18.0	As we continue our teaching series through Matthew's Gospel, multi-year, the Enthom.
0:25.8	In theory, we are in our last season in Matthew.
0:30.5	The plan is to end it by the summer before we move on to finish up practicing the way,
0:37.0	and just to end the kind of COVID season of church at home and all of that by sitting at
0:41.9	the feet of Rabbi Jesus.
0:44.7	On that note, let's stand together for the reading of Scripture.
0:52.8	Matthew chapter 22 verse 34 to 40.
1:01.4	Hearing that Jesus had silenced the sadgesies, the Pharisees got together.
1:08.6	One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question, teacher, Rabbi, which
1:14.0	is the greatest commandment in the law?
1:18.0	Jesus replied, love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
1:22.7	and with all your mind.
1:25.4	This is the first and greatest commandment.
1:29.4	And the second is like it.
1:31.8	Love your neighbor as yourself.
1:34.6	All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.
1:40.4	Take a seat.
1:47.3	Right in the first century BC, a young Gentile made a track across the Mediterranean to visit
1:54.6	Israel and to search out the great rabbis of the day.
1:58.6	He found the two most famous in all of the land, Rabbi Shemaah and Rabbi Haleh.
2:05.2	With melodramatic flair, he stood on one leg in front of them and the crowd and he said,
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