R.C. Sproul

Idolatry?

Unbelief?

It would seem to me that if this is the great commandment, the great transgression would be the failure to keep it.

And that scares me

because I haven't kept the great commandment for five minutes in my life.

I have never loved God with my whole heart.

My soul has never been totally rhapsodized by my affection for God.

As I've already indicated to you, my mind has been lazy with respect to applying it to His Word.

and I've only used a portion of my strength in my affection for God.

And were it not for Jesus, I would perish because of that, and rightly so.

Consider Jesus for a moment and ask the question, did He love His Father with all of His heart?

Was there any portion of the heart of Christ that was not completely in love with the Father?

Did Jesus hold anything back from His soul when His meat and His drink was to do the will of the Father?

Was there anything that the Father revealed that Jesus ignored as being not worthy of His attention?

And was his affection a spineless, weak affection?

Or did he manifest the most powerful, strong affection for the Father ever seen on this planet?

The Lord Jesus kept the great commandment perfectly.

Every second of his life, he loved the Father with all of his heart, with all of his soul, all of his mind, and all of his strength.

And had he not done that, he would have not fulfilled the law of God and would not have been worthy to save himself, let alone save us.

And so after he gives this exposition, tying to it the love of neighbor, which we don't have time to expound right now,