The Greatest Commandment

There are many commandments in America. Most of them are very important in our society. Some are written rules, and some are unwritten. They go from not stealing to saying bless you. All Americans should follow these seven commandments to show that they have respect and manners.

The first rule and most important commandment in my opinion is to treat others the way you want to be treated. This is a very basic and well known unwritten rule but yet not many people abide by this rule. People tend to treat others as if they are of less importance or of lower class. Everyone is equal and everyone has the same rights so nobody should feel

‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. The second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two precepts hang all the law and the prophets’ (Mathew 22.37, 38, 39, 40). ‘By this all men know that they are my disciples, if ye have love one to another’ (John 13.35) …’He who loveth God loveth his brother also’ (1 John 4.21) …’If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar’ (1 John 4.20) …The first thing that takes our attention is the saying of Jesus, ‘Thou shalt love,’ etc. (501-2)

First and the most important teaching that Jesus says it about a million time is to love

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

The Harper Collins definition is, “The chief purpose of love is to bring one’s neighbor into communion with God. True self-love and love for God are coincident or coextensive.” This definition says that to love others you have to bring others to God, just as St. Francis of Assisi said, “Preach the gospel at all times. When

The second is like is: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments.” Jesus summed up 613 commands into two. He took the complexity of the Law and stripped it down to the very core. He made obeying the Law of the Lord easier to understand through the accessibility of simplicity. Churches today must follow Jesus’ example and seek simplicity.

In order to understand the values of morality, God has provided Christianity with morals to live and abide by. These morals are preached through The 10 commandments and Beatitudes. The Ten Commandments are eternal gospel principles, which God revealed to Moses in Exodus 20:1–17. Likewise, The Beatitudes are the eight declarations of blessedness, spoken by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 5:3-12.

"To be a Church of servant-leaders where the love of God is preached, taught and demonstrated; where the boundaries of God's love are extended to those outside the Christian faith." 1John4:8

The definition of love for God is to love God with all your heart, mind, and Saul, and this is nothing but to be faithful to him.

The Scriptures also tells us how we are to speak the truth: We are to speak it “in love”.What is "love" and how do you speak the truth in it? We might think of "love" simply as doing what benefits others the most. The original Greek word (agape) conveys this. It is like the love which God and Christ manifested for us. They did something for us! God loved us enough to send His son to this earth as the only acceptable, perfect sacrifice for sins. “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Christ loved us enough to suffer the cruelest kind of death to pay the penalty for our sins. When we are told to love one another as Jesus loved us, we are talking about sacrificial good will. That is

13:10 “Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”

The two-fold commandment of love translates into working for the common good; working for the common good is service.

A poem is often defined as an art form used to express yourself, which evokes emotion in its reader. However, there are poems with another purpose besides making the audience feel something. Some poems are used to educate, inspire, or give advice to it’s readers. Two poems that offer excellent advice about how to live life happily and successfully are “If” by Rudyard Kipling and “The Paradoxical Commandments” by Dr. Kent M. Keith. Rudyard Kipling, the author of “If” and Dr. Kent M. Keith, the author of “The Paradoxical Commandments” give both similar and different advice, but this advice is directed at two different audiences because of the way it is presented in the poems.

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31) God here clearly states that he wants his creation to be just as benevolent as he is. This is a very possible task that can be achieved if applied to our daily lives.