Kingdom Living - The Commands of ChristSample

Commands of Christ: 61 

Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. 

According to Jesus, this command, know as the Great Commandment, summarizes God’s revealed will in the Old Testament. That is an impressive statement. Jesus tells us in his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:17-20, that following Scripture is a serious issue which His followers should pay close attention to. In its Old Testament context, this is the command which God’s people were commanded to be in constant awareness of. They were to speak of this constantly in their conversations at home and outside. They were to put reminders on their clothing and their doorposts to continually make them aware of it. This was the defining characteristic of their lives in every activity at every time. It needs to be the same for us today.