Jesus replied, 

"'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.'

This is the first and greatest commandment.

A second is equally important: 

'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments."

Then, surrounded by the Pharisees, Jesus asked them a question: 

"What do you think about the Messiah? 

Whose son is he?"

Matthew 22:37-42 NLT

The religious (& political) elite in their culture were trying to trap Jesus, and Jesus uses the Bible that they knew, taking a verse from Deuteronomy and one from Leviticus and making something new, pointing to the Kingdom that was meant to be, and the Kingdom that Jesus was ushering in.

And then Jesus sets his own trap, challenges the Pharisees at their own game. 

But that question still stands for us:

"What do you think about the Messiah?

Who's son is he?"

It's all good knowing our theology (love God, love yourself, love your neighbour) but without Jesus it's just rules. Jesus is telling the rule makers, the rule followers that the law comes alive in Him. The Kingdom is a live, living, breathing thing, it's in us.

It's Jesus at the centre of it all.

#wordsofJesus 

#redletterBible 

#Jesusatthecentre

#lovewins