3. Deuteronomy 6:4,5
4 Israel, listen to me. The Lord is
our God. The Lord is the one and
only God. 5 Love the Lord your
God with all your heart and with
all your soul. Love him with all
your strength.
4. Mark 12:30
The first commandment is you
should love the Lord your God with
all.
We have a Maker to love – before
we have a neighbor to love.
6. Love Accomplishes What
God Requires.
• Romans 13:8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love
one another; for he who loves his neighbor has
fulfilled the law. 9 For this, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT
ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT
STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any
other commandment, it is summed up in this saying,
"YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." 10
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is
the fulfillment of the law.
7. Love Lifts Us Above Trying
To Earn Our Way.
• Faith and love are really
inseparable.
• Faith is a conviction about what’s
true; but then it does something
– it actually loves.
8. So Just Love Him:
• Seek opportunities to love Him;
and use your God-given
capacities to love Him.
• Have willingness and a desire to
love Him.
• Seek His good.
9. Love Is The Most Effective
Motivation.
• God invites and tells us there
are two reasons we should love
Him.
–One reason is: He loves us.
–Second, because of who HE is.
10. Love Is The Most Excellent
Way To Live.
• The way of love is on the inside.
When you are in love:
–It is about passion.
–It is authentic.
–There is realness about it.
11. Religion On The Outside:
• will harden your heart; but love
will soften it.
• can make it all about pride; but
love will humble you
• can make you demanding; but love
will make you a servant
12. • God does not ask a single thing
of you that He does not give you
already.
• He invites and expects our BIG
LOVE because of His GREAT
LOVE.
13. • This first and Great
Commandment shows us passion
for God!
• We need a new fire in our hearts.
We need to be redder hot for
God than we currently are.
