Blessed and Holy: Understanding Them Better Through Luke 10:25-28 (Whole - Part 3 of 5)

OPENING: WHOLE

The difficulty with trying to understand the meaning of the Greatest Commandment relates mainly to the idea of a commandment or command.  Here is what I mean.   If you were to look up commandment in your concordance, then you would discover 4 other close cousins as part of what looks remarkably like a set. They are:

1) laws
2) judgments
3) testimonies
4) commandments (* already noted above)
5) statutes

You might even see two other words commonly in close proximity.  They are:

1)  charge (or burden)
2)  covenant

The question I want to answer this time, which has implications especially for the meaning of holy, is how these fit together as a whole set (if they are a set).

Israel ... Yahweh


AMOUNT


Yahweh your God is one (AM1)  (how many?)
love your neighbor as yourself  (AM2)  (how much?)


RELATIONSHIP

God - far  (where?)  neigh - near
neighbor  (when?)  bor - liberated


ACTION

hear  (how?)
love   (how?)
love (how?)

above yourself (why?)
equal to yourself (why?)



THING

"is" "is not" excuse
who is my neighbor
trying to excuse himself
avoiding accountability



"like" "not like" excuse
different kind


CLOSING: WHOLE

with whole of your heart,
with whole of your soul
with whole of your strength
with whole of your mind


[will continue later]

In Christ,

Jon