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The LORD is One | Dave & Ashley Willis

Name: The LORD is One | Dave & Ashley Willis
Uploaded: 2023-07-25T16:00:42+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Dave Willis
Description: A speaker quotes and comments on chapter 12, verses 29–31 (scripture passage commanding love of God and neighbor), noting that Jesus affirms Old…

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A speaker quotes and comments on chapter 12, verses 29–31 (scripture passage commanding love of God and neighbor), noting that Jesus affirms Old Testament teaching (Deuteronomy), was raised Jewish, likely memorized these verses, and emphasizes that Jesus both preserves and expands earlier scripture by adding the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself.'

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We are. In chapter 12, verses 29 through 31, it says this. Jesus replied, the most important commandment is this. Listen, O Israel, the Lord our God is the one and only Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. The second is equally important. Love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these. And this again, you know, Jesus doesn't, doesn't ever like, diminish scripture from the Old Testament. In fact, he usually shares it and actually adds to it. And right here he's quoting from Deuteronomy. It's just beautiful that Jesus obviously was. Is a Jew, was a Jew and was raised in this Jewish home. He would have memorized these verses. You know, they would have been some of the first scriptures that he would have memorized. And so I think it's wonderful that he's exclaiming that these are important. But then he adds, you know, love your neighbor as yourself. Again, he ups it, right? He gives us what the Old Testament says, and then he adds to it.