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You're listening to the Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome

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to the Bible Guys. He is
Jeff and I'm his companion, Chris,

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my faithful companion. Yes, hey, y like a dog, Yes,

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so Chris. Today we are talking
about the Greatest Commandment, which is this

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is one of my favorite passages.
Yes, it really summarizes what God's expectations

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for us as humans are. The
there's a lot of verses in the Bible.

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I don't know if you knew that. Yeah, didn't know that,

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So so it's hard to go,
Hey, what exactly does he want?

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So Jesus goes ahead and solves that
today. But before that, before we

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get into that, we're going to
do with this or that, this or

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that? Yes, would you rather? It's the jingle for this or this

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or that? How about that?
Yeah? The little sound, little sound?

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This is Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday? So which would you rather do?

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Okay? Okay, sorry, So
we're gonna read a question and then

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you and I are going to pick
this or that? Yes, you ready?

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Which one would you rather do?
Yeah? I'll do the first one,

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would you rather kill a lion with
your bare hands or be swallowed by

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a giant fish and be spit back
out? Oh? So this is this

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is actually referring to two Old Testament
stories. Okay, y, yeah,

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so we get Samson killing a lion
with his bare hands and then Jonah who

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gets swallow by fish and gets spit
back out. That's correct. So what

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would you rather do? Well,
goods, gracious, kill a lion.

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I'd rather kill a lion. Yeah, yeah, but that that assumes that

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I'm Samson though, right, No, it's it's acting you specifically, chris

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Ball. Chris Ball. Would Chris
Ball rather kill a lion with your bands

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or be swallowed by a giant fish
bit back out? Well, I'd still

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pick the lion. Yeah yeah,
And because it already says we killed it.

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So if it said, would you
rather fight a lion with your bare

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hands and or try to kill a
lion may or may not die, that's

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right. Whereas being swallowed by a
fish and getting spit back out. So

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because it does the future, we
know there's a victory in there, right,

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that's right, that's right. Yeah, So I guess I'd rather do

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that. Fight the lion, and
honestly it makes way better story and only

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that, but like, yeah right, hey, hey, once upon a

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time I get small by fish and
they can spit out with vomit on the

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shore. No, here's the reason
why. I also because I am afraid

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of drowning. Really yeah, sort
of. Yeah, I think most people

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are. Yeah, so I mean
the idea of being in a fish's belly

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and the fish is underwater. Yeah, there's a thing called I saw that

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Pinocchio cartoon. He's just sitting in
the little fire. It's fine, Yeah,

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he's fine. He builds it,
builds a fire. Fine, of

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course, not to mention that.
Not to mention it. He didn't need

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oxygen, Jeff, because he was
Are you saying he wasn't a real boy

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at the time he was? Would? Okay? So okay, next one,

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would you rather have two bears as
bodyguards or have the ability to control

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the weather? What? They don't
even go together? That's a tough one.

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What would you rather have two bears
guard bodyguards control the weather? No?

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These are just random you're trying to
make sense of the unsensible. Well,

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I mean I was thinking Brother Bear
and Storm from X Men. Okay,

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So which would you rather be or
half? I would honestly, I'd

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rather control the weather. Me too, Yeah, why would you not want

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that? Ability? Control the weather? Two bears as bodyguards is cool though,

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I mean talking about an entrance.
Yeah, married in a hurricane?

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You know I'm talking about Nope,
are you telling this story or am I?

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Come on, we don't talk about
brous Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah, there you go. I've
seen that like twice so well,

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you know we've we've only watched it
a million time. And she controls the

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weather. Yeah, and that song
is work a pizza or something, by

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the way it gets in your head. Yeah, okay. Would you rather

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heal someone who is blind or have
the ability to multiply food? Oh?

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It says someone meaning only one time? I guess right. But having the

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ability to multiply food seems perpetual to
me, right, because it says I

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think you're reading a lot into that. Hey, I'm literal. This is

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a question that I need to consider
it. Yeah, okay, it's asking

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it's significant. Yes, it says
heal someone meaning a one time miracle or

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perpetual miracles? What every person you
run into this blind is someone? No?

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Yes, they are no they are
someone. No, it says,

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would you rather heal the person who
is? Heal someone? It doesn't say

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heal a person who is blind?
Yes, it does. Every person is

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exactly every person you meet is someone. No, it would be someone's No.

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I think it's the other way,
But go ahead. It's what would

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you choose? I would choose perpetual
miracles? Would I would feed? I

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would solve the world hunger problem?
Yeah, yeah, that's what I would

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do. I would heal somebody who's
blind, and then every one I came

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up, Then you're done. Every
summer, one time someone blind, then

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you're done. All right, Well, way to go, wait to settle

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for the one miracle. Jeff,
that's not what I said. That's not

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what it is you're saying. You
you are imposing a meaning on that note.

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It's not meant. It reads go
ahead. Number four? Would you

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wraps? By the way, that's
so funny. We're going to fight about

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this. You would you rather have
the ability perpetual to walk on water or

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have the ability to teleport? See
that's proof that the previous question is a

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one time miracle. It's not.
Yeah, because she would have said she

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would have said the ability to heal
somebody blind. So okay, let's let's

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let's move on. Would you rather
have the ability to walk on water,

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which is cool, or the ability
to teleport? I already know this answer.

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Teleport, of course, that's a
no brainer. Yeah, teleport.

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I mean, can you imagine you've
already you've already declared that like five times

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on this show. No, it
was just last week, last week.

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Well, no, you've talked about
teleportation before. Oh, in the past,

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not having a fly anywhere? Remember, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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that's right, all right. Would
you rather experience a plug of frogs or

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a plug of flies? Oh?
Now, this one's an interesting one because

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this is not fun at all.
No, this is gross. The other

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the other ones were fun. Yeah, I would choose frogs. Yes,

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I would definitely choose frogs, although
I wonder how frogs can get as irritating

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as flies, what walking and stepping
on frogs. But you'd have to get

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like a shovel, a shovel.
Sure, you can shovel frogs, just

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like you can't snow. We were
driving through when I lived in Southeast Texas.

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We lived right on the border.
You never even questioned that. I

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claimed that you can shovel frogs.
Yeah you can. You can't. I

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was gonna I was gonna say you
can. So so, uh. We

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lived in the swamp, that's where
we lived. So we were right on

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the border Louisiana and Texas and right
up on the Gulf of Mexico. So

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it's just all swamp and marsh and
bayous and stuff. And in the spring,

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we were driving, we drove over
the Sabine Pass area and into Louisiana

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and the road was just covered in
frogs, just covered like the whole road

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was jumping and so you just leave
the skid marks all the way down the

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road. It was. It was
really gross, but it was it was

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bad enough you could have shoveled them. Wow. Yeah wow. But I

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would still choose frogs over flies.
Yeah me too. Yeah. Flies can

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get really irritating. It make it
impossible to sleep, It makes it impossible

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to live. Yes, it'd be
terrible. So that's our time on that

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segment. We need to move on. I'm glad because that's a gross one.

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Matthew twenty two The Greatest Commandments.
Yeah, this one only has just

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a few verses, so we could
have talked for five or six more minutes

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about frogs and flies, it still
be meaningful. Okay, So this is

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Jesus is questioned by the religiously about
the greatest commandment. Here's what it says.

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In Matthew chapter twenty two, verse
thirty four, it says, but

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when the Pharisees heard that he had
silenced the Sadducees with his reply, they

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met together to question him again.
One of them, an expert in religious

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law, tried to trap him with
this question, teacher, which is the

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most important commandment in the law of
Moses? And Jesus replied, you must

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love the Lord your God with all
your heart, all your soul, and

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all your mind. This is the
first and greatest commandment. A second is

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equally important, love your neighbor as
yourself. The entire law and all the

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demands of the prophets are based on
these two commandments. And then in Mark

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chapter twelve, it recounts the same
story. Verse twenty eight. It says

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one of the teachers of religious law
was standing there listening to the debate,

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and he realized that Jesus had answered
well, So he asked, of all

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the commandments, which is the most
important. Jesus replied the most important commandment

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is this. Listen, o Israel. The Lord our God is the one

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and only Lord. You must love
the Lord your God with all your heart,

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all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. The

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second is equally important, love your
name as yourself. No other commandment is

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greater than these. The teacher of
religious law replied, Well, said,

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teacher, you've spoken the truth by
saying that there's only one God and no

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other. And I know it's important
to love him with all my heart and

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with all my understanding and all my
strength, and to love my neighbor as

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myself. This is more important to
offer than to offer all the burnt offerings

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and sacrifices required in the law.
Realizing how much the man understood, Jesus

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said to him, you are not
far from the Kingdom of God. And

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after that, no one dared ask
him any more questions. There's the no

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one dared comment again. So the
other one was none of the sadducees dared

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ask him any more questions, and
now none of the Pharisees dared ask him

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any more questions. Right, that's
what happened there. Yep. Yeah,

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So when it says one of the
teachers of the religious law and Mark.

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And then at the beginning of Matthew
twenty two, it says, but when

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the pharisees heard that he had silence
the saducees with his reply, they met

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together the question and then it says
one of them an expert in religious law.

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So this is this is both of
them are pharisees. That's what they're

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referring to. That's correct, Yeah, yeah, yeah, so one of

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them is kind of a lawyer,
pharisee guy. Yeah, and uh and

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by the way, uh, let
me start off with this. There's a

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lot of things to talk about.
But the first one is is that I

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would say the majority of people.
I'm making this assumption, but I think

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this is a safe assumption. I
would say the majority of people, based

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on my life experience, seem to
think that these are these are two greatest

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commandments, and they're they're listed in
order of importance. They would say,

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oh, the greatest commandment is love
God, and then the second most important

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commandment is to love one another as
yourself, love your neighbors yourself. But

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in both of these references, it
says the second is equally important, equally

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congruent, meaning it is exactly the
same. In other words, the second

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commandment isn't second in order of importance, it's secuit second sequentially. Right,

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So he's saying that these are these
are two equal commandments, which, by

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the way, yeah, I think
there's other trends. They only pushed on

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that one to lit but there's other
translations that say is life unto it?

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Right, So so we might be
over emphasizing the word equally here as as

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opposed to what he's implying is their
flip sides of the same coin. You

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can't separate one from the other.
Right, But but I can love people

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and that's not the same as loving
God. Well I know that for sure,

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right, So so that's why he
puts it in order. He does

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say the second, yeap, second
comes after first? Well, second sequentially

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you can't. You can't blurt out
two things at one time, right,

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But both times he says it that
way, I'm going to give you the

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most important one, love God,
and the second is this way. Yeah,

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I would, I would put him
sequentially. I think I think the

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flip sides coin, you can't separate
one, Yeah, I like I like

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that phrase, you can't separate one
or the other. Yeah, which is

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what John tells us. Right,
you can't claim to love God and hate

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your brother, right, right,
exactly right, right, which is why

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I like that going together. And
by the way, uh so, I

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was I gonna say, I lost
my I'm sorry, no, no,

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I lost my thought. But I
was gonna say, is oh, I'm

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talking about the Law of Moses.
So the Law of Moses. When he

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says, which is the greatest commandment
in the Law of Moses. A lot

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of other misconceptions is that people think, perhaps that he's trying to summarize the

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ten Commandments, but he's not.
Right, he's summarizing all the law.

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Yeah. So there's six hundred and
thirteen precepts that were given in the Book

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of Exodus, and so six hundred
and thirteen laws. So when he talks

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about the Law of Moses, that's
what they're talking about. Did you know

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that two hundred and forty eight of
them were thou shouts and three hundred and

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sixty five of them were Thou shout
knots, which makes up six hundred and

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thirteen precepts. And so by the
way, that means there's more Thou shalt

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knots than there, thou shouts,
So yeah, so that really what he's

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doing is is he's saying, these
two commandments, summarize all six hundred and

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thirteen precepts. And he says later
on right here, he says, all

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the law and the prophets hang on
these two things. So think about every

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single piece of scripture that they memorized. Think about how much scripture they have

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memorized right now, So the people
asking him those questions, you know,

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it was customary back then for Jewish
boys by the age of twelve to memorize

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the entire Book of Moses, so
you know, the Pentituk or the first

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five books of Moses, right,
the first five books of the Bible.

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Can you imagine being twelve years old
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raised that way and having memorized the
Book of Leviticus, Yeah, all of

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Genesis, all of Exodus, all
of Numbers, all of Leviticus, all

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of Deuteronomy. Can you imagine memorizing
the Book of Numbers. Yeah, yeah,

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Holy Christmas, that's a lot.
That's amazing. And so what he's

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saying is he's saying, everything you
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two statements. That's amazing. So
he quotes here Deuteronomy six' five love

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God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. And then

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he quotes Leviticus nineteen eighteen, love
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so he's quoting script. Sure to
answer, but this was a common

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thing. You know, those of
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students, you know that the Romans
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a place where all the smart people
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the Parthenon there in Athens, and
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dear in their different ages. They
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the other smart people, and they
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big thoughts. Right, they didn't
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they weren't trying to smash fruit on
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stuff. So instead they use their
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would sit and just challenge thought,
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an open, fair debate. Right, that's what they would do. And

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so the Pharisees. A big part
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take the six hundred and thirteen laws
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one's more important? And then they
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know, when a donkey falls in
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you should help your neighbor pull out
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on this festival day, you should
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and which one's more important? And
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and it was literally the would you
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ago? Only they would do it
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which is a bigger deal to God. And so this is a customary thing.

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And by the way, it's interesting
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Pharisees, he would have been extremely
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rolling in on Jesus with the thing
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and has never heard Jesus do.
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he's going to get the upper hand
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everybody away. And this guy's delighted
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love that that Jesus. Jesus answer
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important, and he gives spoken the
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then he adds to it, he
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this is more important than to offer
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But in the law, So think
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So he's he's referring to something similar
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said, you don't desire my sacrifice, you don't desire my burn offerings?

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more important. Uh. What does
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What is it the verse? Something
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know. I'm not trying to quote
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I'll get it. Remember, Yeah, yeah, But that's that's the

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direction he's going here. There's other
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I would rather obedience give me.
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meaning he wants your heart. Yeah, so that's in Uh, that

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would be in the stories of David
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Samuel is fronting Saul king Saul and
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be probably first, first or second
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often where God goes, I would
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all the sacrifices, or Malachi talks
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this idea and so this this young
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doesn't say he's young, but is
amazed that Jesus explanation, love God with

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all of you are all your mind, soul, body, and strength.

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Is that what it says? It
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your heart, soul, mind and
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and Mark adds the word strength,
which, by the way, I've always

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thought that because uh, you know, different versions they love Lord your God

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with all your heart's soul in mind, and I never know whether I should

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add the word strength. But I'm
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right, it's Mark, and this
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it right, And it's because Matthew
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So it turns out that the Bible
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As a matter of fact, John
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not contain the books if we tried
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not disagreeing. Mark just adds strength, which is appropriate. It makes sense.

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So the the idea here, love
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know. There there, that's the
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are? Your heart right? Really, your your intelligence, your intellect,

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all that stuff, all your soul. That that's the living portion of you.

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We got a spirit. We have
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mind, that's your your intellect,
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what you do, your abilities right, your accomplishments, your ability to

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to the love your neighbor as yourself
is a pretty easy one. Yeah,

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well it's not easy. It's simple. It's simple. It's not easy,

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which, by the way, I've
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who was a psychologist, and one
of his famous sayings is he would

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say, is he said, simple
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and I think that overall, you
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for our lives. So you know, for instance, we've mentioned this before.

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oh, does God want me to, you know, choose this city to

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live in or this city to live
in, and you pray and pray and

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pray, and it's possible for God
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you a direct answer. You know, in your spirit, it's definitely clear

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that this is choice a you know, but then sometimes you pray, pray,

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pray, pray, and it's like
it just seems like you don't have

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a clear answer to where I would
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God's given you the green line of
both things. And so therefore God's

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will isn't determined by your city.
God's will is determined by whether or not

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you live. You're loving the Lord
your God with all your heart, soul,

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mind, and strength, and so
you're in God's will in the city

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doing that, or you're in God's
will in this city doing that because this

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is God's will for you. The
greatest commandment is you know, is that

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way? Right? So it's not
terribly complex, right, right, but

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yeah, you're right, it's not
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and then making God's priority your priority. Right, so you make him your

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priority. And then what is his
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we make people our priority. When
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the law. This is you know, back when we were in school,

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they had Cliff's Notes, Like if
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you go out by cliff Notes.
And I'm very familiar with cliffs Yeah,

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and it would be an abbreviated version
of the book. You can blow through

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it in a few minutes and get
the whole idea of the book right at

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book report. You know, we
use those before the internet. So now

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on the internet, coulds just look
up, hey, what's a good book

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report? Now it's chat GPT that
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internet. Yeah, yeah, I
discovered that in college. That was a

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while ago, right, But so
it's funny the basically that's what Jesus saying,

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you want to summary, so loving
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and strength. That covers the first
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right right, and then love people
like you, love yourself, don't

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steal, don't lie, don't kill, don't write, don't covet all those

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things that that's the other side of
that, and so really there are flip

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sides of the same thing. So
if you take the Ten Commandments, as

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you know, cliff notes for the
law, and then these two verses that

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Jesus quotes out of dude, round
me and livity, because really are Cliff's

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notes for the ten Commandments, which
are cliff notes for the whole law.

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Right God, First, people are
important to God, so they should be

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important to you. You got to
live right with them, right, And

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that's the really what Jesus is trying
to say. It really does simplify our

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decision making. Is this decision honoring
God? Is this decision going to benefit

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others or hurt others? Right?
That's it. That's awesome. Well,

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that's a great place to end,
and that is our time. So we

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will see you next time on the
Bible. Guys,