LESSON 14: Most important Commandment Christian Doctrines Lent

LESSON 14

MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT (Mt.22:36-40, Mk.12:8-34)

Do you remember what some of God’s top ten 10 big rules are?

• 1 and 2. We can only have one God, the real God. We can’t have any idols or things that are more important to us than God.
• 3. We have to use His name respectfully. We can’t use God’s name unless we’re talking to Him or about Him.
• 4. We have to keep the Sabbath. We need to have one day a week that is special to us for worshiping and learning about God. It’s also important for us to rest on that day.
• 5. We have to honor and respect our parents and grandparents.
• 6. We can’t kill or hurt any other person.
• 7. When we get married, our husband or our wife has to be the most important person to us, and we can’t have any other boyfriends or girlfriends.
• 8. We can’t steal. We have to work for or ask for what we want.
• 9. We can’t tell lies about other people.
• 10. We have to be happy and content with the things that we have instead of always wanting what other people have.

That’s a lot of rules for us to follow, isn’t it? What if we could just follow two rules instead? Would that make it easier?

Jesus said, “The most important commandment is this: ‘The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. 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.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”

What is this rule telling us to do? (To love God with all our heart and our soul and our strength. In other words, to love God with everything that we have.)

• If we love God with all of our heart and all of our soul and all of our strength, will we have any other gods that we worship? (No.)
• Will we use God’s name in the wrong way if we really love Him? (No, we will only use God’s name respectfully.)
• If we love God with everything that we have, will we want to take time to worship and learn about Him on the Sabbath? (Yes.)

So this rule, “Love God with all your heart and all your soul and all your strength” is a good summary of the first four rules. If we love God, we will automatically keep the first four rules.

“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.”

What is this rule telling us to do? (Love other people as we love ourselves.) So, first is to love God. Second is to love other people.

• If we love our parents, for example, will we honor and respect them or will we be disrespectful to them? (We will honor and respect them.)
• And if we love other people, will we kill or hurt them? (No.)
• If we love our husband or our wife when we get married, will we hurt their feelings by having other boyfriends and girlfriends? (No. We will only love our husband or wife in that way.)
• If we love other people, will we steal from them or get jealous of them if they have something we don’t? (No. We will love them and be happy for them that they have nice things.)
• If we love other people, will we tell lies about them? (No. That would hurt their feelings.)

So, this second rule, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” is a good way to remember the other six big rules God has for us. Because if we love other people the way God wants us to, we won’t do anything bad to them.

So remember, “Love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you can do that – loving God and loving other people – you will be following God’s other rules automatically.

What have you learned from the most Important commandment?

The first commandment says how should be the relationship between God and man and the second one says how should be a relationship between human beings. Those who keep the right relationship with God can keep the right relationship with fellow beings. Our relationship with God is a relationship based on dependence. It should be with faith; refuge and it is like the dedication of a child to his parents. We should believe that our God is everything for us. We cannot do anything without God. We should have the right relationship with God.

Video Ref:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lux8SNsh6Ic&t=216s

Questions:

• What are the two important commandments?
• Who is your neighbor?
• Explain the parable of the Good Samaritan?