Upward
Training 2
Higher Love
34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an
expert in the law, tested him with this
question: 36“Teacher, which is the greatest
commandment in the Law?” 37Jesus
replied: “Love the Lord
your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’38This is the first and greatest
commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love
your neighbor as yourself.’ 40All the Law and
the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
Matthew
22:34-40
Jesus makes an extraordinary statement
in this passage! He clearly states that
these two commandments, Love the Lord Your God with all you are and
love your neighbor as yourself are
the greatest. They are the foundation of all of God’s Word and the goal toward
which all of God’s Word points. He goes
on from there to declare that all the Law and Prophets hang on these two
commandments.
Last year Upward
Training focused on the first love, loving the Lord with all our heart,
soul, mind and strength. Upward Training 2 will be a focus on the
second love, loving our neighbor as ourselves, which we are calling
Higher Love. Upward Training 3 will focus on a
special type of loving our neighbor: loving the lost, sharing our lives and the
gospel with those who need Christ. We are called to live out the gospel with a Higher Love.
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