Sermon Tone Analysis

Seeking Your Mark

We live in a time that people redefine everything including what it means to be right or wrong.

We live in a time that say’s if you love me you will except me for who I am and stop judging me.

We live in a time that people are constantly trying to trip others up to show that they are wrong and we are right.

We live in a time that our own perspective is the only one we can see but yet we claim to think out side of the box.

This list goes on and on but this is not something new.

This has been going on for thousands of years.

For instance, people have been questioning God’s authority even before he physically descended to Earth and manifested himself as the God-man Jesus the Christ.

Even when Jesus walked the Earth and did all kinds of miraculous signs and wonders, people were still always trying to trip him up.

The term soul is difficult to define, but it seems to refer to the source of life and vitality, or even of one’s ‘being’

Thompson, J. A. Deuteronomy: An Introduction and Commentary.

Vol. 5. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1974.

Print.

Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries.The term soul is difficult to define, but it seems to refer to the source of life and vitality, or even of one’s ‘being’

The necessity to have the law of God upon your heart rather than on tables of stone is here declared

The man who loves gladly loves with his whole being

8, 9. What was given originally as a metaphor became for later Jews a literal injunction.

The present passage, along with , ,

We live in a time that people redefine everything including what it means to be right or wrong.

We live in a time that say’s if you love me you will except me for who I am and stop judging me.

We live in a time that people are constantly trying to trip others up to show that they are wrong and we are right.

We live in a time that our own perspective is the only one we can see but yet we claim to think out side of the box.

This list goes on and on but this is not something new.

This has been going on for thousands of years.

For instance, people have been questioning God’s authority even before he physically descended to Earth and manifested himself as the God-man Jesus the Christ.

Even when Jesus walked the Earth and did all kinds of miraculous signs and wonders, people were still always trying to trip him up.

Thompson, J. A. Deuteronomy: An Introduction and Commentary.

Vol. 5. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1974.

Print.

Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries.

We live in a time that people redefine everything including what it means to be right or wrong.

We live in a time that say’s if you love me you will except me for who I am and stop judging me.

We live in a time that people are constantly trying to trip others up to show that they are wrong and we are right.

We live in a time that our own perspective is the only one we can see but yet we claim to think out side of the box.

This list goes on and on but this is not something new.

This has been going on for thousands of years.

For instance, people have been questioning God’s authority even before he physically descended to Earth and manifested himself as the God-man Jesus the Christ.

Even when Jesus walked the Earth and did all kinds of miraculous signs and wonders, people were still always trying to trip him up.

is a perfect example of people trying to trip Jesus up and test him.

First, the Pharisees tried to get Jesus to entrap himself by asking him if he thought it was lawful to pay taxes.

You see if Jesus said no, he would have been breaking the Roman Law but many of the Jews felt that paying any tax to a pagan contradicted God’s Lordship over them.

But Jesus didn’t fall for their trap.

He said “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” ().

After that the Sadducees - who didn’t believe in a resurrection (which is why their names are sad u c’s) - they tried to trip Jesus up with what they thought was a contradiction about the resurrection and a married woman who’s husband died.

But Jesus using Scripture proved them wrong.

As a side note If God used his own scripture to defend his word how much more should we be studying his word to do the same.

Now after they were put in their place the Pharisees and Sadducees got together and sent their disciples to test Jesus one more time asking him: “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” (Mt.22:36-40).

“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” (Mt.22:36-40).

Now what can we learn about this?

We can see what Love and patients looks like as people are constantly trying to redefine what we stand for.

We can see how to defend our faith - namely with Scripture.

But did you notice Jesus wasn’t quoting the N.T. as a matter of fact Jesus never quoted the N.T.

As a matter of fact Paul never quoted the N.T Peter never explicitly quoted the N.T. either.

I say explicitly because he did implicitly quoted it when he said: “count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters.

There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures” ().

But the questions have to be asked:

What does it look like to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind?

What are some of the distinguishing marks that define who you are?

Both of these question can be answered

To answer these question I want to look in the O.T. - at the passage that Jesus was quoting.

So if you have a Bible or the Bible app on your device would you turn to Deuteronomy’s 6:4-9.

That is the 5th book in the O.T. which was called the Torah (Hebrew) or the Pentateuch (Greek) they both mean the five books of the Law.

Background:

After Moses and the Israelites defeated Og, the king of Basan, which is modern day Syria.

Moses recalled how God gave the Law to the people.

He reminded them of their covenant with God and of the 10 Commandments.

Then Moses reminded them of what the Greatest Commandment was (which was called the Shama).

And this is the verse that Jesus quoted.

Now your going to see in a few minutes that there is a command to do here.

And in typical Pharisaic nature the Pharisees of Biblical time took this command to the extreme and missed the point.

Likewise, many of us do this today as well - it just looks slightly different than what the Pharisees did.

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Now as your turning there, let me briefly fill you in on the background.

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Now as your turning there, let me briefly fill you in on the background.

Seeing Your Mark

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The people of Israel have left Egypt with the guidance of the Lord and Mosses.

The Israelites heard the voice of God and it scared them.

They asked Mosses to speak to God.

In other words Mosses was interceding for them.

They were in the Land of OgIt was at this time that God gave Mosses the ten commandment and God told Moses to teach all his people the words that God told him.

4“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

5You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

6And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.

7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.