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Loving Our Neighbor

Loving Our Neighbor. Leviticus 19:9-18. Loving Our Neighbor Introduction. Loving Our Neighbor Introduction. Loving Our Neighbor Introduction. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. Loving Our Neighbor Introduction. Hugely important concept Fascinatingly buried in Leviticus

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Loving Our Neighbor

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  1. Loving Our Neighbor Leviticus 19:9-18

  2. Loving Our Neighbor Introduction

  3. Loving Our Neighbor Introduction

  4. Loving Our Neighbor Introduction LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF

  5. Loving Our Neighbor Introduction • Hugely important concept • Fascinatingly buried in Leviticus • Jesus highlights its importance. • Matthew 22:35-40

  6. Loving Our Neighbor Introduction • Read through the passage: • Leviticus 19:9-18

  7. Generosity19:9-10

  8. Generosity19:9-10 • Concern for the poor • Concern for the sojourner (foreigner, temporary resident) • Willingness to meet people’s needs • God provides for us. We should share with others.

  9. Honesty 19:11-12

  10. Honesty 19:11-12 • Honesty is foundational to relationships. • True in both business and personal life. • No ulterior motives. • Genuinely wanting the best for others as well as ourselves.

  11. Integrity 19:13-14

  12. Integrity 19:13-14 Dictionary definition: • adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty. • Related to integer, that is, a whole number – thus, relating to the characteristic of being undiminished, wholeness.

  13. Integrity 19:13-14 • Fair treatment of workers. • 19:14 prohibits more than cruel practical jokes. • People need to be aware of what we do to them. • Related to honesty in business and personal dealings • Not doing anything subversive. • Not“pulling the wool over somebody’s eyes.”

  14. Justice 19:15-16

  15. Justice 19:15-16 Justice is blind, that is, “impartial.”

  16. Justice 19:15-16 • No favoritism or partiality in judgments. • We might think that God is partial to the poor. • He is, but mainly in the sense that he is concerned for them and sympathetic to their needs. • This doesn’t mean they are allowed to commit crimes.

  17. Justice 19:15-16 • 19:16 slander, also could be viewed as “gossip” • See Proverbs 11:13 and 20:19. • Ezekiel 22:9 connects slander with murder. • This is the case here.

  18. Love 19:17-18

  19. Love 19:17-18 • 19:17 Make an effort to resolve disagreements. • 19:18 Don’t try to get revenge. • See Romans 12:17-21, Paul may have been thinking of this.

  20. I am the Lord.

  21. I am the Lord. • Repeated statement in 19:10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. • In the Bible, ethics are built on a foundation more basic than human beings – on God.

  22. I am the Lord. • “If there is no God, then everything is permitted.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The Brothers Karamazov • “Without God, morality is reduced to a matter of opinion.” – Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

  23. I am the Lord. • Our neighbor is, like us, created in God’s image. • A command to love our neighbor “as ourselves”is, therefore, very reasonable. • Treating others “well” can be seen as treating them “right.”

  24. Loving Others

  25. Loving Others • Jesus teaches it in John 15:12-17. • Paul in Romans 12:9-10. • Peter in 1 Peter 1:22. • John in 1 John 4:7-12.

  26. Loving Others • Jesus takes love to an extreme. • See Luke 6:27-36.

  27. Loving Others • Christianity has lost its credibility, at least in part, because we Christians have not made loving others the high priority that the Bible says it should be.

  28. Loving Others Loving others gives credence to our faith, making it: • Visible • Understandable • Believable • Acceptable

  29. Loving Others • Let’s not be like Linus • We can’t only love humanity in general or abstract terms. • We have to love the actual people that we know.

  30. Loving Others • Let’s not be like Linus • We can’t only love humanity in general or abstract terms. • We have to love the actual people that we know.

  31. Loving Others LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF

  32. Loving Our Neighbor – One Last Look

  33. Loving Our Neighbor – One Last Look The Good Samaritan Luke 10:25-37 Oil Painting (1890) by Van Gogh

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