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LESSON FOR # SEPTEMBER 6
THE GREAT COMMANDMENT8.
LESSON TEXT-Mark 12:28-44.
GOLDEN TEXT?"Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy strength,
and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor
' as thyself." Luke 10:27.
This lesson considers a third question
asked of our Lord; two others
in this connection we studied last
week. It was not so much a question
of placing one commandment in
competition with another, but rather
which commandment most clearly
epitomizes or reveals the final principle
in law. It was the business of
this scribe to know the law and to
interpret the commandments. Jesus j
lu his reply quotes from Deut. 5:4. j
and from Lev. 19:18, which are both:
in u sense an exposition of the Deca- |
logue.
Love the Basis.
I, The answer of Jesus, vv. 28-34.
The scribe's questiou seemed to he ,
quite specific and so the Lord strikes
at once at the heart and by his quotation
reveals to us the fact that the
principle which is the inspiration of
the law is that of love. In passing
we have here another illustration of
the master's ready use and knowledge
of the Scripture. Jesus makes a
four-fold summary. Man must love
God with (a) the heart, e. g., in sincerity
and uprightness; (b) with the
soul, with the warmth of the emotions,
and the feelings; (c) "with all
thy mind," the intellect, not as a blind
devotee; (d> with "strength," viz.,
with intensity of service, with energy.
"To love God with all the heart and
soul and mind and strength is to have
supreme desire for and delight in
God's glory, making everything else
second to that." This statement is
but half, for the complement of our
love of God is to love man. Man
created in God's image was "so loved"
by God that he gave his son (John
3:16); man can do not less and must
express that love in service to others.
To fail in the first is to break tlio
greatest of the commandments and
therefore to be guilty of all, Rom.
3:23.
Human and Deity.
II. The question of Jeeus, vv. 35-?
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57. Our-Lord's question in return
was a Messlaatc one and ho. grounds j
hi8 argument on tlfe HOth Psalm, a ]
Messianic one. Jesus is inferior to
David as his son according to the j
flesh but superior to him as lord of t
the kingdom of which David himself <
is a subject and not the* sovereign. ' ]
Christ is both human and deity; his ^
kingdom is spiritual and earthly sov- |
erelgns are honored it they are his ;
subjects. ]
III. The teaching of Jesus, vv. 38- (
40. The word doctrine" in verse 38 j
Is translated "teaching" in the re-1.
vision. These words of warning are (
full of soleYnn significance. The i
scribes, and they have their imitators j
today, sought the places of prefer-,,
ment. the seats of honor in the syna- \
gogue and the chief places at the ]
feasts The mgtive that governed
them was a selfish one. They de-]
vonred widows' houses, and sought to <
cover their covetousness and dishon- ]
esty by long prayers and a pretense ]
of piety. This brought upon them the
"greater condemnation," Matt. 24:51. J 1
Law and love is here again In con- i
trast. Law must become life.
IV. The view of Jesus, vv. 41-44.
Jesus had one look of love and compassion
for his friends and the needy
and another that was exceedingly ter- .
rible for his enemies. Thus it was as
a master teacher that he saw right
at hand an illustration for his lesson.
an application of the truth in tho
case of the widow who gave out of her ,
penury and because of her love for
Clod, supporting these enrping, selfish
scribes. She had two mites iabout
fourth-fifths of a cent) and inlvht bavo .
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Her lore, however, went beyond -the
'tenth" and she gave "all,** therefore
:n proportion to their means she "cast
more than they all," see II Cor. 8:12.
Offerings are needed still for the
lord's work. Jesus is "over against
the treasure" and "sees" who it la
hat "casts in" how much they cast
ind tbe motive behind the gift. The
maste-'z iicndard ot a commendable
jffcring is u*?t according to our superfluity,
but ou deficiency, not what
will be missed bu* what of sacrifice
ind in proportion thereto. Not to
please man, but God. Read II Cor.
J: 1-3. Our Lord's valuation of gifts
?ast into the treasury remains for all
time the true standard of measurement.
The love of God unifies a man. We
love because he first loved us, and
In proportion as we truly apprehend
his love, all that we have of heart,
life, strength and mind, yea, our
whole nature will unite in love. It is
this which unifies society. To love
him that begets Is to love him that 1b
begotten. To love God is to love man
and to keep all of the divine commands
that concern our relations to
him.
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