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In Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Our meditation for this morning comes from the book of Deuteronomy

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chapter 6. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall

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be as frontlets between your eyes, you shall write them on the

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doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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This is our text.

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To love God

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one must love what

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God loves.

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To love God is to love righteousness and holiness. To love his

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Commandments and his words and his ways.

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To love

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God also means to love the object of his love.

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The world redeemed through Christ, Jesus.

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However, we may feel at times as though we could separate our love of

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God from loving people.

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Jesus himself, saw this separation of God's love from the object of

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God's love with the Pharisees.

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The Pharisees declared that if anything was declared corbon, that is

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that it was dedicated to the temple and a man was not obligated to

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take care of his parents and even could take the money for himself at

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a later date.

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By this excuse of loving God, the Pharisees made void the fourth

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Commandment.

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Jesus made clear that he refers to this commandment when he charges

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the Pharisees, you leave the Commandment of God and hold to the

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tradition of men.

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The commandant here in Deuteronomy 6 to love

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God, above all things.

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I have seen it in my Ministry, two women fighting tooth and nail over

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who is in charge of the funeral dinner.

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They both claim to love God, but they do not honor the eighth

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commandment as they slander one another before, the congregation and

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refused to follow Matthew, 18 in resolving their conflict with each

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other.

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Their love of being in charge eclipses, their love for God and His

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commandment.

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God calls for his love to be made visible.

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He calls in this text for his word to be bound on your hand and as

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frontlets between your eyes and to write them as doorpost on your

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house and on your gates.

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And now, I can let the Old Testament Department here

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figure out what that meant historically.

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But clearly what God is telling us in this text is that he wants his

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word,

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he wants his word,

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to be made real.

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To be made visible.

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To be made incarnate.

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He wants to remind us of what love looks like. To love him

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with all of our heart, with all of our soul, with all of our mind to

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love him with every fiber of our being,

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To love what he loves. To love people. To love those who he himself

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has redeemed from the slavery of sin, and he has pierced our hearts

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with this love to the Son of God beaming his love into our hearts.

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And through the cross

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Jesus has shown his love for us in his holy innocent and bitter

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sufferings and death.

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He bore in the in his body

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the sins of the whole world.

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Jesus rescues us from our sin and our brokenness and our selfishness

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and our false love, and our love to be righteous on our own terms.

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And he brings to us real freedom to love. A freedom that brings genuine

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restoration.

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Selflessness, love and righteousness through Christ

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we love because he loved us first.

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And this love, calls us beyond any of the superficial loves of this

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world.

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And so we do bear this word, you bear this word on our arms, and in

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our hands, to be the body of Christ in this world. To bodily advertise

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the world

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what God's love looks like. What it looks like to be truly forgiven by

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our Father.

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As we bring that genuine love God's genuine love into a world

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that does not know what real love looks like.

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And we bring this love into our families and into our communities

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and to all who we see.

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And so, love God.

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Love his commands. Love his righteousness, and love his Holiness

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because it is all for you, and he did it all for your sake. Because he

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has given you his righteousness and Holiness because you are the

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object of God's love redeemed in Christ's blood.

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And he has also loved your neighbor and redeemed, your neighbor,

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wherever he may be.

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Love God with everything you have and show that love

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the object of God's love,

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the world.

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Amen.

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Now May the peace of God, which surpasses all human understanding.

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Keep your hearts and minds in the one true faith to Christ

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Jesus our Lord.

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Amen.