In this text we're in the presence of the most ultimate revelation there is

the most ultimate purposes of God the most ultimate foundation of God, the most ultimate foundation of all reality.

That before there was anything you presently know or that filled your mind or your heart or takes you for mourning tonight,

before any of that was there was this mighty design of God and it was

designed that I might be loved that I might be loved, enjoyed, cherished, cherished, treasured,

treasured, treasured, admired, that I might be the satisfaction of some beings, souls and hearts and minds.

Ah, I shall create a world.

What does it mean to love your neighbor as yourself

and how do you fulfill it?

In this episode of Light and Shroup,

John Piper turns to Matthew 22-34 to 40

to explore Jesus teaching on this commandment and its practical application.

This sermon was originally preached

at Bethlehem Baptist Church on April 30th, 1995.

I want to focus on the Second Amendment you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Verse 40 is where I want to begin

in walking with you through the stupendous surroundings of that commandment.

We're just going to walk around it today.

We're not going to go into it.

We just go walk around it.

And we're going to start at the end with verse 40. On these two commandments, namely love God with all your heart and love your neighbors yourself,

on these two commandments, hang, depend the whole law and the prophets.

Jesus didn't have to say that. That isn't the question that the lawyer asked him.

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