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Jesus was asked several times what is the greatest, the foremost of all that God has spoken? His answer comes right out of the Old Testament. “The greatest, the foremost of all that God has said,” Jesus replied, “is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” That comes right out of the book of Deuteronomy.

Jesus continued, “and the second is like it; you shall love your neighbor as yourself.” That comes right out of the verses we’re studying today in Leviticus 19.

“On these two commandments hang the entire Law and prophets.” In other words, the entire Old Testament can be summarized by those two statements.

The book of Leviticus is about worship, but it’s also about how to live as God’s people. It was He who rescued them from their oppression and slavery in Egypt. It was He who defeated their enemies, who gave them the land as their own possession, who promised that His presence would be with them.

In other words, because the Lord is their God, they should not live as those in Egypt from where they came or as those in Canaan where they are going. They should be different, they should be distinct, because the Lord is their God.

The same is true for you and me. God has redeemed you; He has called you His own son or daughter, He has given eternal life and every promise behind the name of Jesus. The Lord is your God and you should also live distinct, be different than the world. You’re in the kingdom of God now and He has given you the opportunity to have a relationship to the living God. Therefore, you should love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength; and you should love your neighbor as yourself.

These verses in Leviticus 19 tells you what it means to love your neighbor as yourself, but it also tells you why you should love your neighbor as yourself; because the Lord is your God; because you revere God.

I. God’s People Care about Others

 Because the Lord is your God, you should have God’s heart toward others. That’s not natural; everyone born on this earth is born self-focused and self-centered.

 God cares; He’s concerned for those less fortunate, for the broken and hurting, and for the widows and orphans, and He wants you to have the same heart – – because the Lord is your God.

A. Be generous to those in need

 What a beautiful way to take care of those in need and those traveling through the land. The farmers were to leave the corners of the field and the gleanings for those in need to harvest.
 The book of Ruth made this provision famous. When she and her mother-in-law Naomi came from Moab broken and poor, it was this provision that provided for them. They were poor and Ruth was a foreigner.
 As she was gleaning, she was noticed by Boaz, their kinsman redeemer, and the rest is history. She became the great-grandmother of King David.
 At the end of verse 10 He gives the reason to care for those in need, “I am the Lord your God.” In other words, because the Lord is your God, be generous to those in need. Have God’s heart toward others.
 God will bless your harvest, God will bless your business, God will bless you when you have a heart to bless others.

Matthew 5:7, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.”

Luke 6:38, “Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure – pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.”

B. Be true because God is the truth
 Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man comes to the Father but by Me.”
 In other words, truth is not just something to know or understand, it’s a quality of character. It’s something to live; it’s something to become. Truth is a person and His name is Jesus.

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