Loving God with all of your Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength

Lesson Text: Mark 12:28-31By: Jim Bradshaw

Sunday Morning, Feb. 22, 2015

Mar 12:28-31 NKJV Then one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, "Which is the first commandment of all?" (29) Jesus answered him, "The first of all the commandments is: 'HEAR, O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE. (30) AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART,

Mar 12:28-31 continued WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.' This is the first commandment. (31) And the second, like it, is this: 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

Mat 25:34-40 NKJV Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (35) for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; (36) I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.'

Mat 25:34-40 continued (37) "Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? (38) When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? (39) Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' (40) And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'

Heart - EmpathyEmpathy most often refers to a vicarious participation in the emotions, ideas, or opinions of others, the ability to imagine oneself in the condition or predicament of another:

Sympathy – a feeling for

Empathy – a feeling with

In English, since the early 1900’s:

To Empathize with OthersHeb 4:15 NKJV For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Colossians 3:12 ESV Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

To Empathize with Others1Pe 3:8 NKJV Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion (having fellow-feeling) for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;

Rom 12:15 NKJV Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

Soul - Evangelize2Co 5:10-11 NKJV For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. (11) Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade [PAI] men…

We must keep on persuading others!!!

Mind - Educate2Ti 2:15-16 NKJV Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (16) But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.

Mind - EducateHeb 5:12-14 NKJV For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. (13) For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.

Mind - Educate

Heb 5:12-14 continued (14) But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Strength - Edify

Rom 14:19 NKJV Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another.

1Th 5:11 NKJV Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

Strength - Edify

Eph 4:29 NKJV Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

Strength - Edify

Eph 4:15-16 NKJV but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— (16) from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Love

• Heart

• Soul

• Mind

• Strength

• Empathize

• Evangelize

• Educate

• Edify