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God Is Big Enough: Bigger Than My Confusion
Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010
Pastor Mark Kraft
In this message Mark will look at the wisdom of God—this big God that we serve whose wisdom is bigger than our confusion—and we’ll try to unpack what it means to love God and to love people and to serve the world? What was Jesus teaching about when He said those two great commandments?
The Israelites believed that wisdom begins here: Love God. Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. The way that you express this love for God, found in Dueteronmy 6:4-9, is you do what God says. You obey the Torah – the teachings, the commandments, the law. You put the commandments on your heart. You teach them to your children. You strap them to your arms and your head. You write them on the wall, on the doorframes, on the post. To Israel it was all about this word: Shema. As soon as a boy was able to speak, his father would teach him the Shema. In fact Deuteronomy 6:4 would have been the first passage that Jesus memorized as a very little boy.
When the Shema says that you are to love God with all your soul the Rabbis understood this to mean that you should be willing to die rather than betray God. That’s what it meant to them to say, “Love God with all your soul.”
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
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