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28One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him,“Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”29“The most important one,” answered Jesus,“is this:‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Love God with all yourheart=passionately
Love God with all yoursoul=vulnerably
Love God with all youmind=rationally
And today we are to love God will all ourstrength=practically
Mark 12:30 (ESV)And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Luke 10:27 (ESV)And he answered,“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Hebrew “might” wasmeh-ode’, which means -exceedinglyorabundance.
Greek isischys, meaningstrength or power
Power isWork/Time (work divided by time).
Work isforce times displacement.Displacementis thedistance something is moved.
POWER = FORCE x MOVEMENT/TIME
Force iseffort.Movement isdistance.Time isdurationof the action.
“Loving God with all our power” requiresEffort(or force)TimeDistance(ormovement)

Effort =Bible reading for meaning.
Psalm 77:12 (NIV)“I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds.”
Psalm 119:15 (ESV)“I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.”
Psalm 145:5 (ESV)“On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.”
Effort is havingConversationswith God
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 (ESV)9 But, as it is written,“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”-- 10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
Loving with strength/power isfasting.
Loving God with our power/strength with ourtime.
Psalms 105:4 (ESV)“Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually!”
Psalms 130:5-6 (ESV)“I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.”
Psalms 139:7-12 (ESV)7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say,“Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
Acts 17:27b-28a (ESV)“….Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for“‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,…..”
Psalms 22:11 (ESV)“Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help.”
Psalms 35:22 (ESV)“You have seen, O LORD; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!”
Isaiah 29:13 (ESV)“And the Lord said:“Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,…”

Jeremiah 2:5 (ESV)“Thus says the LORD:“What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?”
James 4:8 (ESV)“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”