We are about to have a great time in the scriptures.

I'm going to tell you something in advance.

Jesus is going to mess with us.

He's going to mess with us.

But if we are willing, and I want to tell you something,

I'm going to try to be careful about how I make these kind of promises.

I'm based on the authority of God's word alone, I'm going to tell you something.

What we're studying has the capability of completely transforming our lives.

And I'm not kidding.

I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding.

Now, I'm about to read to you if you have a history in the faith, one of the most familiar

verses in the entire Gospels to you.

But I'm going to tell you everything else hinges on Christ's answer right here in the Gospels

when it says in Mark 12, verse 28, and one of the scribes came up and heard

them disputing with one another and seeing that he answered them well and he is Jesus, asked

him, which commandment is the most important of all? And listen, this was a people who believed in commandments.

They loved commandments so much that the commandments they had were not enough.

They added and added and added and added to them.

These people love commandments.

What is the most important of all?

It is the word in Greek protas, P-R-O-T-O-S, long-o-short-O, protas, from which we get priority.

What is the priority?

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