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    The Greatest Commandment Matthew 22:36-40: New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

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    This document discusses the greatest commandment from the Bible to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind" and to "love your neighbor as yourself." It argues that we often miss the importance of the phrase "as yourself" in the commandment. Loving ourselves is just as important as loving others, as we are made in God's image and disrespecting ourselves disrespects God. To truly love others, we must first love ourselves and respect the inherent worth that God has given us.

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    The Greatest Commandment Matthew 22:36-40: New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

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    This document discusses the greatest commandment from the Bible to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind" and to "love your neighbor as yourself." It argues that we often miss the importance of the phrase "as yourself" in the commandment. Loving ourselves is just as important as loving others, as we are made in God's image and disrespecting ourselves disrespects God. To truly love others, we must first love ourselves and respect the inherent worth that God has given us.

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    This document discusses the greatest commandment from the Bible to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind" and to "love your neighbor as yourself." It argues that we often miss the importance of the phrase "as yourself" in the commandment. Loving ourselves is just as important as loving others, as we are made in God's image and disrespecting ourselves disrespects God. To truly love others, we must first love ourselves and respect the inherent worth that God has given us.

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    The Greatest Commandment Matthew 22:36-40: New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

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    This document discusses the greatest commandment from the Bible to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind" and to "love your neighbor as yourself." It argues that we often miss the importance of the phrase "as yourself" in the commandment. Loving ourselves is just as important as loving others, as we are made in God's image and disrespecting ourselves disrespects God. To truly love others, we must first love ourselves and respect the inherent worth that God has given us.

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    The Greatest Commandment

    Matthew 22:36-40 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)


    “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 37 He said to
    36 

    him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your
    soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first
    commandment. 39 And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as
    yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

    We have all heard this. You all have heard me, and countless other Pastors preach on
    this. It is the most important commandment by which all other laws hang upon. Because
    obviously if you love someone you wont murder them, or steal from them, or sleep with their
    spouse, or do any sort of nefarious things to them. Pretty simple stuff here. But I think there is
    something we often miss in the greatest commandment.

    It’s that “as yourself” part. For the most part, we understand “be kind and loving toward
    other people” part of this commandment. Being loving others might come more naturally to
    some than loving ourselves. Because if we took seriously everything in this commandment, we
    might realize that God wants us to see the value in ourselves too. We might realize that loving
    God with all our heart and mind and soul means respecting Gods creation and image in others,
    and in ourselves.

    So, when we think poorly of ourselves, allowing those inner demons to convince us that
    we are worthless and no one likes us, what we are doing is disrespecting the image of God that
    is innate inside us. Imagine all those things you say to yourself, then imagine saying them to
    God. If we are made in Gods image, and the Holy Spirit dwells within us, then when we say or
    think those things about ourselves we are also thinking them about God.

    Furthermore, if we are to love others as we love ourselves, but we don’t love ourselves,
    we probably are not doing a good job at loving others. If we cant stand up for ourselves, and
    tell those voices, or even the people that keep us down that we are NOT worthless, but we are,
    in fact, fearfully and wonderfully made; then how can we stand up for others made in the same
    image as we are?

    It is not selfish to love yourself. Nor is it selfish to demand that others treat you with the
    respect with which you treat them. We are made in the image of the almighty God! We are
    made in wonder and mystery and a little bit of Holy magic! Our maker loves us and rejoices
    every time we do something good for ourselves and for others. Who are we to tell God any
    different?!

    Homework: Do something nice for someone else. Then do something nice for yourself.

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