Redeeming The Time

Most people know what the Greatest Commandment is. Perhaps some do not know the reason why this Commandment is singled out by the Lord as the greatest. We look at the context of the Greatest Commandment and the second one that is like it (scripture from Deuteronomy and Leviticus), and at the most important scripture verse that a true Christian must know and live by: "Let us make man according to our image and likeness." This scripture fully explains the reason for the Greatest commandment: "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. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.'" In doing so, we heap scorn upon the recent heresy held by so many: that salvation is obtained by faith alone. Anyone who understands the love of God knows that this new doctrine, which is foreign to the church's thought and came about with the Protestant Reformation, is false and illogical.