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WHAT EXACTLY DID JESUS MEAN BY THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT?
By Steven Garofalo, February 26, 2024 (Copyright 2024)
February 26, 2024

We often hear about speak on, and gloss over the three parts Jesus gave us in “The Greatest Commandment”. But why three things? Why didn’t Jesus just give us one thing? Today, I am going to show you that Jesus was speaking about just one thing but in three parts as the “Greatest Commandment”.

Matthew writes in 22:36, “But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”

It’s important to note that Pharisees in the time of Jesus were religious “lawyers” or a student of the Law of Moses. We all know that layers in today’s age exist in many if not most cases to prove a point-whether true and honest or not. In today’s passage, this Pharisee put the Lord to a test with a question designed to reveal how much Christ knew about the law.

In reply, to answer the lawyer’s question, Jesus said:

“And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39)

Jesus was quoting from the great Jewish confession of faith called “the Schema”. The confession is called this because it begins with the Hebrew word “schema”, meaning “HEAR:” “Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God , the  Lord is one!” (Deuteronomy 6:4, 5; 11:13-21)

The Pharisees knowing the Hebrew Scriptures knew the answer to their own question as it was clarified in Isaiah 33:15; Amos 5:4 and Micah 6:8 and Hab: 2:4. In the big picture when Jesus said to “Love the Lord your God”, he sharply defined he answer in three focussed ways as to how the Pharisees and all people were to understand and live out life on earth in light of God’s Word. As such, Jesus mentions that we are love with all of our HEART, SOUL and MIND. So what does this mean?

 

We are to “LOVE THE LORD OUR GOD WILL ALL OUR…”

  1. HEART: Includes our emotions, passions, desires, and motivations.
  2. SOUL: Simply means our “ALL”.
  3. And MIND: meaning our thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, memory, imagination and intelligence.

In the PHYSICAL this means our senses and actions.

In the NON-PHYSICAL this means our conscience, will, personality, temperament, and spirit.

All of these aspects are inter-related; each facet affecting and influencing the other, We cannot separate one aspect of our being from another. Nevertheless, it is beneficial to look at each one individually so that we can understand ourselves better and therefore love God more fully.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "GREAT" and "FIRST"?

Verses 38-40 go on to say, “This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbors as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law of the Prophets”.

Some Greek texts place “GREAT” before “FIRST”. Nevertheless, love for God takes priority over every other command is the point. Looking at verse 39, this command (love your neighbor) is from Leviticus 19:18 but is not an imperative to love one’s self. People naturally love themselves and are at least somewhat self-centered to begin with. Because we love ourselves, we want the best for ourselves: likewise, we should be concerned for the welfare of others.  Lastly, verse 40 wraps up nicely in that the Ten Commandments can be divided into two categories: those dealing with love for God (the first four) and those dealing with the last six). The same way he said for “all the Law and the Prophets”.

IN CONCLUSION: While we often hear about speak on, and gloss over the three things Jesus said about  “The Greatest Commandment”, the Bible makes clear that Jesus was speaking about three parts and not as three things. These three things in sum equal the single greatest commandment.

When Jesus said that we are to love God with all our heart, soul and mind, He was indicating that love for God is to come from every facet of one’s constitution or mental clarity as to how we will live our life. It is unlikely that the Pharisees would have taken exception to this part of His answer. “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR” meaning to taking delight in meeting the needs of others. Sometimes the phrase “AS YOURSELF” is used to prove the need for cultivating a positive self-image before being able to love others. But Moses and Jesus assume self-love as the basis for the comparison of loving one’s neighbor. When one is cold, he puts on a sweater; when he is hungry, he eats. As one happily meets his own needs, i.e. “loves himself”, he should similarly meet the needs of his neighbor. Those two great commandments are mutually exclusive, for if one loves God he will love what God loves, and God loves people (Matthew 25:31-46; 1 John 4:20).

In the end, if we LOVE the Lord our God with our ALL, we will naturally love our neighbor as ourself. And this is what Jesus meant by the Greatest Commandment.

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GOD PREPARES HIS PEOPLE FOR WHAT LIES AHEAD  Acts 10:9-16

About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.” “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.” The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven._

*BACKGROUND*

Following Jesus three years of His ministry life, Peter was one of Jesus' closest disciples, and the clear leader of the apostles (although James, the half-brother of Jesus, served as the leader of the church in Jerusalem). Following Jesus' example, Peter and the early church had active prayer lives (Acts 2:42), a spiritual discipline critical to looking at the many challenges from God's perspective, and enriching the development of mature disciples of Christ. Just as Jesus frequently _"would withdraw to desolate places and pray"_ (Luke 5:16), Peter ascended onto the rooftop of Simon, the tanner´s house to escape the lively activity associated with meal preparation and instead commune with God. As we studied in Acts 6:4 when the apostles realized they needed to delegate practical tasks so that they could _"devote [themselves] to prayer and to the ministry of the word,"_ this time of prayer was especially important as Peter was yet unaware that Cornelius' trusted servants and a devout soldier were enroute to his location with a mission to fulfill the command the angel provided him to fetch Peter from Joppa and bring him (back) to Caesarea Maritima.

*TAKE THE TIME TO COMMUNE WITH GOD*

_About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance._

At around the noon hour, Peter went to the rooftop to pray to communicate with God despite the impending lunch hour. On this particular occasion, God used his hunger to teach him about Gentiles. Although he became hungry, he sat quietly and fell into a trance, a state where one's vision becomes hyper focused on a particular issue/thing while awake (as with Paul, in Acts 22:17–18), whereas a "dream" happens when the person is asleep.

*SMALLER CHALLENGES PREPARE US FOR BIGGER DECISIONS*

_He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”_

Although God is present everywhere in His creation (John 4:24) and He doesn't live in the sky (like some sort of satellite), He often uses the image of clouds parting and the sky opening as a metaphor for revealing something previously hidden/obscure to mankind on earth (as in Ezekiel 1:1; Matthew 3:16; Acts 7:56). At other times, God gathers clouds to hide His presence from His fragile creation (as in Exodus 19:16; Mark 9:7). In this case, the skies open to reveal God's message.

The four corners of the sheet may represent the "four corners" of the world. In the sheet are _"all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds"_ representing the full array of animals described in Deuteronomy 14 as food fit to eat (like sheep, goat, ox, deer, antelope, gazelle, and finfish) and those restricted in the Mosaic Law, such as birds of prey, reptiles, camels, rabbits, pigs, scavangers, and winged insects. A voice tells Peter to kill and eat the animals, an action which would contravene the Mosaic law. Unaware that the animals represented the people of the world who have been elected by God — some devout Jews and some Gentiles, Peter would have been confronted by such a strange order but once he understood what God was telling him metaphorically, it would make sense when Cornelius' messengers finally arrived.

*RECOGNIZING WHEN IT IS GOD WHO SPEAKS*

_“Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.” The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven._

Peter may be a Jesus-follower, but he was also a devout Jew. He was not going to eat animals forbidden by the Mosaic law without a major realignment of his understanding even though Jesus had already declared all foods clean in Mark 7:15, saying, _"Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean'  by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean' "_ explaining in verse 19, _"For it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (in saying this, Jesus declared all foods 'clean')._ Yet Peter failed to internalize His explanation that what makes people defiled is when something unclean resides in their heart, like evil thoughts that lead to sin (Mark 7:16–23). It's not the literal, physical touch of certain foods that's a problem, it's when someone knows God has told them not to eat it and they do so, anyway (Matthew 15:10–11).

But as a Jew, Peter understood the animals on the restricted list as "unclean food".This concept of "clean" and "unclean" is a little confusing. If something is "unclean," it doesn't necessarily mean it's bad or sinful. In some cases, it means it's not fit for the worship of God — like a sacrificial animal with a blemish or a person with a particular type of wound. The differentiation existed to remind the Jews to separate themselves from the pagan nations around them; if they could do so with the foods they ate, they'd remember to do so with the gods they worshipped.

Ironically, Peter was staying with a man who was perennially unclean for the tanner, Simon, would regularly touch the carcasses of unclean animals in order to treat the leather.God was teaching Peter about people. Because Gentiles were considered unclean because they did not follow the Mosaic law, eating with them would be to tacitly approving of their non-Jewish lifestyle. This flew in the face of what Jesus had already explained in Peter's hearing: that the purpose for unclean food laws had been fulfilled and the literal substance was not the issue, but the heart of the person eating (Matthew 15:10–11).

Mark´s line of logic in Mark 7:1–23 went from unclean hands, to unclean hearts, to an understanding that the kosher dietary laws were fulfilled and no longer in force. Peter's vision and application goes from unclean foods, to unclean dinner mates, to salvation to the Gentiles. The food the Jews ate was part of the deeply cultural tradition of the meal and to share a meal with someone was to publicly declare your allegiance with them. This is why the Pharisees were so offended when Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners (Mark 2:13–17).

The kosher laws were designed to show the neighboring nations that the Israelites were different. The worship of Yahweh was largely hidden from Gentile eyes, but eating was more obvious. If someone tried to sell a Jew pork, the Jew could refuse, explaining his God forbade it. As time went on, this prohibition grew into a general rule against eating with anyone who wasn't Jewish, including Gentiles who worshiped the Jewish God but were not circumcised and proselytes, such as Cornelius.

The number of times Peter saw the vision of the animals descending on the sheet and heard God's words (three) were especially significant for Peter because that it helped him recognize the vision was a message from Jesus. While Jesus was on trial before the Sanhedrin, Peter denied knowing Him three times (Mark 14:66–72). After Jesus had risen from the dead, Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved Him, and told Peter to take care of Jesus' followers (John 21:15–17). It certainly allowed him to link the vision of the animals on the sheet and assertion not to call anything God made clean as impure with Peter's responsibility to proclaim Jesus' message and care for His followers to the three messengers coming to bring Peter to a Roman centurion to share the gospel with the Gentiles!

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Our eternity in Heaven is guaranteed by God (Ephesians 1:13–14; John 3:16–18) for Jesus has already paid the entry fee for every person who trusts in His death and resurrection. And as we go about our lives, eager to do good works (Titus 2:14) may we fulfill His purpose for us in the hope of seeing Jesus face to face and worshipping God as one, united as a family from _“every nation, tribe, and tongue”_ (Revelation 7:9; 14:6) when God finally calls us to our eternal home. But until then may we wisely commune with God in prayer and recognize the good work the Holy Spirit is doing in us as we apply what God has told us to do!

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By Steven Garofalo, Citing CBN Article, December 20, 2024

Gen Z is often talked about as a very conservative but sometimes depressed generation. Today, through an article by CBN, Christian Broadcast Network, published on 12/17/2024 04:55:30 PM by writer Charlene Aaron, I am going to show you that there is new hope, new life, and new energy happening with Gen Z. Let’s get started.

A Gallup survey found a surprising number of teenagers feel the pressure to be perfect all the time, leading to negative emotions. Young Life, a Christ-centered ministry that focuses on helping kids to know Jesus wanted to learn more in hopes of turning those feelings in a more positive direction through something called the “Relate Project”. What is “Relate Project?” It’s a study aimed to bridge the gap, offering a deeper understanding of Gen Z.

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The study found that relationships and communication, not online but in person, are on the minds of this generation.

More than half communicate most often one-on-one with their closest friend.  Another 20 percent talk through phone calls, Facetime, or WhatsApp. The remaining 25 percent tend to use texts, email, and direct messages to communicate with friends.

The research also found that friends and family are the primary sources of help for adolescents. 

THE REALITY OF MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLES

Sadly, 40 percent of Gen Z worry about their mental health. When it comes to technology the study found that over 35 percent turn to social media when they feel anxious. This is an opportunity to reach out.

"The opportunity for us is not so much how do we get them off of it? It's how do we help them leverage it for positive aims? How can we equip them with a theology of technology that helps them to process, 'Where and how can this help me think and go deeper in my relationship with God?'" he said.

It is a goal that Stafford Craymer with Young Life in Virginia Beach, VA wants to dive into with young people.

Cranmer wrote that, "It can't just be verbal proclamation," said Craymer. "There's gotta be something tangible that kids can remember that they can hold onto, that they can touch, can relate to in their personal lives."  

COMBATING THE PANDEMIC’S AFTERMATH

Sadly, today, kids are a little less innocent, said Young Life volunteer Casey Heron. "This crazy pandemic I think took away some of their innocence and kind of forced them to grow up a little bit too quick."

“Satterwhite believes such challenges can be solved by the gospel through new strategies.” 

"This research is helping us understand what is the context that might inform what are today's methods. What are the new wineskins and what is then the new wine," Satterwhite commented.”

It is a shift that other ministries such as InterVarsity and CRU are also considering as they review Young Life's findings.

They say that it's been fun to see these other organizations who are struggling with some of the same things with a similar heart for young people, wrestle with, writing, “'Man, what are the implications for our ministry? How might we be more intentional about creating belonging for the young people that are calling our community home or being drawn to our community?'" Satterwhite described.”

"I think that we have had to and have become people where we're constantly sharing our lives with these students," said Young Life Staffer Gabby Brubaker. "We are entering into the lives of kids day in and day out consistently."

SIGNS OF REVIVAL AS GenZ RESPONDS TO TRUTH FAITH

When it comes to faith, GenZ is responding positively. Study and Young Life found that faith as a framing story helps folks, especially young people, to contextualize: 1) “what does belonging mean?” 2) 'Where do I fit in?' and 3) What could that look like as we help them to know not just who they are but who they are and what they're called to. That's what we're seeing as a direct correlation to increased flourishing."

It is a flourishing that Young Life as a ministry continues to shape. "There are 60 kids showing up every Friday before school to go to Bible study," Heron said. "We started, there might've been 10 people and that was a big number for us. So, to have 60 and it's just continuing to grow again, I think these kids are really resonating with the purpose, the love, the consistency that Jesus gives and they're really grabbing hold to that."

Natalie Browning, Young Life Volunteer said: "I know and have seen kids walk from death to life,". "They're not hopeless. This generation is not hopeless."

AS PARENTS OF GenZ CHILDREN

I would like to interject as a parent of three GenZ children that this generation is great source of hope for the country and world at large. They have seen what evil, sinful men and women leaders can do to other people. They sadly have seen the aftermath of the experiment called divorce on a wholesale level. They have seen corruption in government, business, school shootings, and people turned into literal zombies through drug abuse. And the list goes on. 

GenZ are more conservative in many ways and those in this special generation who currently trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior as well as those who will trust in Christ will turn the United States and world around for the good. Genz has seen the greed, selfishness and immoral side of humanity to a degree that most of us over the age of 50 didn’t. And they are turning to Christ through the love of others who would share God’s love with them. 

So today, I call on GenZ, on the parents of GenZ and the grandparents of GenZ to become proactive in building deep family relationships first and helping this young generation connect in human terms to God and to one another instead of or at least more so than a phone or computer screen.

There is hope for this generation and God has a plan for them. And it’s for this reason that “This Generation Is Not Hopeless'” While 40 Percent of Gen Z Feels Unlovable, Signs of Revival are emerging and you and I can help them grow in their faith, in relationship skills, and in their love for God and one another.

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TEMPTATION
By Steven Garofalo, December 16, 2024 (Copyright 2024)

Temptation comes to all of us on a daily basis. Temptation to eat too much or eat bad things. Temptation comes in many forms, ranging from sexual to money and power. The list is lengthy. In Luke 4:10-14 God shows through the life of Jesus, not only that temptation comes from the evil one, but what that temptation looks like. Today, without reading the entire passage, which I will up to you to do on your own, I will comment on various key points. Please read this passage and let’s get started!

TEMPTATION IS UNBIASED BUT POTENT FOR CHRISTIANS:

Temptation comes to all people, but to Christ followers, temptation is applied even more. WHY? Because Satan leaves well enough alone and doesn’t have to do much to keep the typical secular man or women from sinning because they don’t subscribe to biblical “Sanctification”-hence they are not working on becoming better moral agents according to biblical standards. As such, Satan and his demons, being limited in how many places they can be at any one given time, focus on taking down Christian marriages, business men and women, government leaders and the like. Let’s look a key points of the story of Jesus being tempted directly by Satan as our truth text today.

SETTING: “And Jesus, ‘full of the Holy Spirit. “Returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil” (Luke 4:1-2)

THE WILDERNESS: To give you some idea of where exactly Jesus was tempted, the traditional site of the temptation is North West of the Dead Sea, near Jericho. 

TEMPTATION #1-JESUS TEMPTED: Jesus was, “…tempted by the devil” To get a good gospel cross-section of this story, check out Matthew 4:1. Satan’s intention in the temptation was to make Christ sin so as to thwart God’s plan for man’s redemption by disqualifying the Savior. God’s purpose (note that the Spirit led Jesus to the test) was to prove His Son to be sinless and thus a worthy Savior. It is clear that He was actually tempted; it is equally clear that He was sinless (2 Corinthians 5:2)

THE POWER OF SATAN: In verse three, Satan says to Jesus, “if you are the Son of God…” The particular Greek construction of the words in this verse indicates that the devil did not doubt that Jesus was the Son of God, but was prodding Jesus with temptation like a kid on the elementary playground. The word “IF” can be translated “SINCE”. Notice that Satan acknowledged that Jesus had the power to turn stone to bread to begin with. So it’s made clear here that Satan knew all to well WHO Jesus is and what He was capable of doing as the Son of God.

DEPENDENCY IN TIMES OF TROUBLE AND TEMPTATION: In verse four, “And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘ Man shall not live by bread alone.” The Lord acknowledged His dependency  on His father here by quoting Deuteronomy 8:3. And Satan, knowing the Scriptures all too well, knew exactly what Jesus was saying. As a result, Satan cut his losses to move onto a different way of tempting Jesus since this way failed.

A NEW TEMPTATION: And when they were ended, “…He (Jesus) was hungry”. Why is this important? Because most all of us get weak, hangry and easier to give into temptation when we are hungry. 

TEMPTATION #2:
It’s at this point that Satan takes Jesus up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and said to him…

“To you I will give all the authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. IF YOU , THEN, WILL WORSHIP ME, IT WILL ALL BE YOURS” (vss. 6-8).

It’s important to note that Satan had the right to make this offer to Jesus because he is the prince of this world. If Christ had accepted Satan's offer, it would have bypassed His crucifixion.

THE REPLY: Jesus gives a one-liner reply, rejecting Satan’s offer by quoting Deuteronomy 4:8: “And Jesus answered him, It is written, “You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve” (v.8). And it worked!

TEMPTATION #3:
Satan takes Jesus to Jerusalem and sets Him on the pinnacle of the temple and tells Jesus to throw himself down God will command His angels to catch Jesus, not even allowing His foot to strike the ground (vss. 9-11).

The pinnacle of the template can be explained as one of the battlements or towers that overlooked the courtyard of the Temple. If Jesus had cast Himself off and landed unharmed among the crowds below, He surely would have been acclaimed the Messiah.

Instead, Jesus makes clear that, “It is said, You shall not put the Lord your God to the test” (v.12). And when the Devil had ended every temptation, he departed form him until an opportune time” (v.13). Notice Jesus' weapon of choice was the Old Testament Scriptures!

BE ENCOURAGED
After all that Jesus had been through. Under the condition of having not eaten for 40 days, Jesus withstood all of Satan’s temptations, and verse 14 says, “AND JESUS RETURNED IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO GALILEE, AND A REPORT ABOUT HIM WENT OUT THROUGH ALL THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY. AND HE TAUGHT AT THEIR SYNAGOGUES, BEING GLORIFIED BY ALL” (v.15)

Verses 14-15 show us three things.
1) FIRST: That God allows us to be taken through temptation to strengthen our faith and relationship with Him.

2) SECOND: That when we return from temptation, we do so “IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT”. In other words, it’s not just about gritting it out but about relying on God’s strength (if we allow Him) to keep us out of falling into temptation. And we do fall, it’s God’s strength that can get us out if we trust him.

THIRD and LASTLY: Notice what Jesus was called to do straight out of these three, non-stop temptations by Satan himself. God calls Jesus to preach all over town and was glorified! In other words, Satan's temptations backfired and the gospel truth spread even more.

SO WHAT?
Now that we dissected this passage, the big SO WHAT question comes out. Let me simply say that temptation comes to all of us. We live in a very depraved world full of temptation and immorality. This passage clear that we are to depend on God who will “take us in His Spirit” to where we need to go according to His will. 

Furthermore, studying the Bible and knowing the Scriptures is a crucial part of the spiritual warfare we all face and will face as time goes on. Notice that Jesus quoted the Old Testament numerous times as a spiritual weapon against the tempter Satan. And it worked!

Lastly, it’s important for all of us to know where our areas of temptation lie. For some, it’s wealth trappings and for others it’s alcohol, pornography, laziness or being a workaholic. This list goes. In closing, let's remember the words of Paul in 1 Corinthians: 

1 Corinthians 10:13
“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. wGod is faithful, and xhe will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

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