Upon what does Agape Love hang?

Upon what does Agape Love hang?

Matthew 22:34-40 (NKJV)

The Scribes: Which Is the First Commandment of All?

34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.

35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,

36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”

37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[a]

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’[b]

40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
 
Footnotes:

    Matthew 22:37 Deuteronomy 6:5
    Matthew 22:39 Leviticus 19:18


Our culture has conditioned us to be closed off from our neighbors. We open our garage doors and drive our cars out in the morning, then we come back in the evening and put our cars in the garage again, and we never seem or really want, to interact with anyone around us.  - WHY?



Mainly because we have been taught and shown that people should build their lives upon their own hard work and do not depend on neighbors for much!  Sad, but true today in the USA! 



People have been directed toward making their way and based on greed and self-centeredness.  They take " Love your neighbor " as get all that you can! With the idea that you must start with yourself!


If many people had to be taught to love themselves and others, then why would there be so much abuse of wives, children even animals?

Mainly because so many don’t know how to love others or themselves. I also believe this is why the Scriptures provide so much instruction on how to love.

First, we must learn to love ourselves {Since God first Loved Us} then through this Agape Love we can truly, come to love our neighbors!

 It is not a selfish form of love - rather it should be a shared type of God's Love!


It’s a learned behavior.


Have you come to learn this greatest of all precepts?