Love Commanded: The BIG 2!
a. #1 = Love God
#2 = Love Neighbor AS
SELF
...the BIG TWO IN ORDER!...Luke 10: 25-29: Matthew 22: 37-40; Mark 12:30
#2b:
SELF
Genesis 1:26
Then God (plural=elohim) said,
“Let Us make man in Our (SPIRITUAL) image,
according to Our (CHARACTER) likeness
Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female, and
He blessed them and
named them Man (MANKIND) in the day when they were created.
Psalm 139:14...I will give thanks to You,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
Psalm 139:13...For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.
Ephesians 4:16
from whom the whole body,
being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
Philippians 2:3
Do nothing from
selfishness or empty conceit (pride?), but with
humility of mind
regard "one another" (believers) as more important than yourselves;