TOPIC — The Great Commandment: Love [RCCG Sunday School STUDENT Manual 20 September 2020]
RCCG Sunday School Hymn

MEMORY VERSE: “Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.” – Song of Solomon 8:7

BIBLE PASSAGE: Matthew 22:35-40 KJV (RCCG Sunday School STUDENT Manual 20 September 2020)

35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

INTRODUCTION: The bible says that “love is of God” and “God is love” (1John 4:7-. In other words, love is a fundamental characteristics you of who God is. Everything God does is driven and influenced by His love (John 3:16). Our Lord Jesus Christ emphasised this by identifying the commandments to love God and the first and general law, after which He declared the directive to love fellow human beings as the second most important law (Matt. 22:25-40). The Holy Spirit sheds more light on the link between these two aspects of love (1John 4:20).

In Song of Solomon 8:7, love is said to be unquenchable and has more worth than all of one’s possessions because it satisfies like nothing else can.

Outlines

Love Towards God

Love Towards Fellow Humans

1. LOVE TOWARDS GOD

The bible says that our love for God is related to the fact that God first loved us (1 John 4:19). It is also related to our obedience of Him (1 John 5:3; John 14:15). God’s love for...

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