Title: The Dangerous Duty of Delight
Author: Brian Fletcher
Text: Matthew 22:37-40
Introduction:
Today we begin our series on the Ten Commandments, entitled "The Good Life". Andrew and I are going to take two weeks to introduce the Ten Commandments before we jump into each of them.
This morning I want to start by reading Jesus' summary of the Ten Commandments in Matthew 22:37-40
Read: Matthew 22:37-40
"Teacher, which is the great commandment
in the Law?" 37 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. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
One of the things we need to understand as Biblical Christians is that all parts of the Bible fit together like pieces of a puzzle. The puzzle has a finished picture - it's on the box, but when all the pieces are laid out we don't see it the way it is supposed to look.
Sometimes when you are putting the puzzle together you can't see how certain pieces will actually fit to make the picture whole. It's the same way when we read our Bibles. Sometimes we don't see how this story or passage fits into the whole story (picture) of the Bible
But it does.
For instance, you may think:
Well, we just finished a series on Jonah and now we are going to move on to the Ten Commandments. And you may think that they are totally separate from each other.
But they aren't
Listen to this quote from The Gospel Transformation Study Bible on Jonah:
On the surface, the story of Jonah lends itself to a moralistic interpretation: God sends Jonah to the notoriously evil city of Nineveh (1:1-2), but Jonah runs away instead (1:3). So God sends a storm and a fish to rescue Jonah from his disobedience (ch. 2), he tells Jonah to go a second time (3:1-2), and finally Jonah gives in and obeys (3:3). Then God ...
Author: Brian Fletcher
Text: Matthew 22:37-40
Introduction:
Today we begin our series on the Ten Commandments, entitled "The Good Life". Andrew and I are going to take two weeks to introduce the Ten Commandments before we jump into each of them.
This morning I want to start by reading Jesus' summary of the Ten Commandments in Matthew 22:37-40
Read: Matthew 22:37-40
"Teacher, which is the great commandment
in the Law?" 37 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. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
One of the things we need to understand as Biblical Christians is that all parts of the Bible fit together like pieces of a puzzle. The puzzle has a finished picture - it's on the box, but when all the pieces are laid out we don't see it the way it is supposed to look.
Sometimes when you are putting the puzzle together you can't see how certain pieces will actually fit to make the picture whole. It's the same way when we read our Bibles. Sometimes we don't see how this story or passage fits into the whole story (picture) of the Bible
But it does.
For instance, you may think:
Well, we just finished a series on Jonah and now we are going to move on to the Ten Commandments. And you may think that they are totally separate from each other.
But they aren't
Listen to this quote from The Gospel Transformation Study Bible on Jonah:
On the surface, the story of Jonah lends itself to a moralistic interpretation: God sends Jonah to the notoriously evil city of Nineveh (1:1-2), but Jonah runs away instead (1:3). So God sends a storm and a fish to rescue Jonah from his disobedience (ch. 2), he tells Jonah to go a second time (3:1-2), and finally Jonah gives in and obeys (3:3). Then God ...
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