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1. What is love?
2. Why should we love?
3. Who should we love?
4. How should we love?
5. Tonight, as we study Matthew 22:34-40, we will discover the answers to those four questions, answers which will transform our lives if we embrace the truths found in God’s Word.

Matthew 22:34-40

Context
1. The day after the Triumphal Entry, Jesus returned to Jerusalem and began to teach the people in the Temple. (21:23)
2. The chief priests and elders saw Him and challenged Him, asking, “By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?” (21:23)
3. Jesus replied, “I will also ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John was from what source, from heaven or from men?” (21:24-25)
4. After reasoning together, they lied and said, “We do not know” because they feared the people for they all regarded “John as a prophet”. (21:26)
5. So, Jesus told them three parables which were like mirrors that revealed the condition of their hearts; “The Parable of the Two Sons,” “The Parable of the Landowner,” and “The Parable of the Marriage Feast.”
6. Next, the Apostle Matthew recorded three challenges from religious and political leaders, each an attempt to trap Jesus into a making a misstep so that they had grounds to accuse and reject Him.
7. But Jesus knew what they were up to and gave them answers which, once again, revealed the hardness of their hearts and the wisdom of our Savior.
8. Two weeks ago, we studied the first two challenges:
a. The lawfulness of paying the Roman poll tax; and
b. The resurrection and a woman married to seven brothers.
9. Tonight, we will study the third test regarding the greatest commandment from the Mosaic Law.

I. Love God

• After Jesus silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees came back for another round of testing.
• Sure, they had been silenced earlier when they tried to trap Jesus with the help of the Herodians, but this time they brought their ace, an expert in the Law, a lawyer.
• The lawyer asked Jesus, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” (36)
• At first glance, this does not appear to be a tough question but, at that time, there was a raging debate about the Law.
• Jesus’ answer had the potential for creating a great divide among the Israelites.
• Here was the issue; the Ten Commandments contained 613 Hebrew characters.
• Using each of the 613 letters, the Jews categorized the Law.
• One category had 365 prohibitive laws, things that one must not do.
• The other category had 248 positive laws, things that one must do.
• After dividing the Law into two categories, they further organized the laws by giving them relative weight, meaning, some laws were “weightier” than others.
• These categories resulted in the perception that a person could focus on the “weightier” laws while ignoring the “lighter” laws.
• The only problem with this line of thinking is that if you break one law, you are guilty of breaking the entire Law!

James 2:10, For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

• Once again, Jesus amazed them with His answer because He answered their question in such a way as to cause them to consider their relationship to God, their neighbors, and even Himself!
• Jesus answered by quoting from Deuteronomy 6:4-5, known in Hebrew as the Shema; which means “to hear”. It was the centerpiece of the Jewish morning and evening prayers.

Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

• The Ten Commandments are divided into two tables.
o The first four relate to our relationship with God.
o The last six relate to our relationships with others.
• Jesus began with the greatest and foremost, our relationship with God, before He addressed our relationships with others.
A. God loved you first

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