The First And Great Commandment - (part two)

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Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 0:00

We just give honor to him who is the most high, the holy one, Lord God Almighty, to his majesty our King, Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Thank God for all of you, God's people, this morning. I want to say happy Father's Day to all fathers. It ain't easy being a father. If you ain't never been there, you don't know, but just trust me.

SPEAKER_01 0:29

It's a good position. It's a good honor to have children.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 0:36

But it it calls for responsibility and it calls for us. I'm telling you about fathers. If more fathers would look to their head, we wouldn't be so stressed out and and making wrong decisions. What I'm talking about, that's a whole nother message. The Bible said our head is Jesus. Remember what Paul he would teach the people in Corinthians? He said, I will have you know this one thing that the head of Christ is God. The head of man is Christ. And the head of the woman is the man. God has order, but there's an order breakdown. We as men, we need to go to our head that we may, that's the only way to make sure that you're doing stuff right, following Jesus. But anyway, this morning, thank God. We've been dealing with a series, we started a series on last Sunday. This series is the first and great commandment. Jesus said this. He said the first of all commandments. I know we've been taught about the 10. Also 10, 10, 10. You really think God stopped at 10 commandments? Come on now. If you knew if you think so, you ain't be reading your Bible. There are many commandments of the Lord, and a commandment is only one of its simplest form is what God has instructed us to do. Now, in the book of Deuteronomy, when you go all the way back and try to study that in the book of Deuteronomy, you'll see what Moses told the people that this is required. But Jesus came along and broke it down in the New Testament. The book of Mark said the first of all commandments is that we love God. But what he taught us is that we are to, where there's four main categories of our beings. What makes us up as beings, earthly beings, four things about us that we are capable of loving. And God is requiring us to love him in every one of those areas. Not just your mouth, because you can't love with your mouth. There are some things in us. Jesus pointed out four categories heart, soul, mind, and strength. And he says this is the first of all commandments. All the commandments are good, but this is the first one. If we don't get this one right, we're not going to get the others right. Because this first commandment, what is what Jesus said, the first commandment of all commandments starts with God. If you don't start with God, you start not wrong. We have not been taught how to love God, let alone how to love Him in all these four categories. But it's my if it's my attempt to put forth this effort to try to teach this as best I can with the help of the Holy Ghost and the Word of God. The first of all commandments. As Jesus said in the book I'm using, uh, it's I think Matthew said the same thing, but I'm gonna read the one in Mark. The first Jesus said the first of all commandments is here is the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God. See this first commandment, if you don't love God, you ain't gonna do everything. You ain't gonna do nothing stuff he said in the Bible. If you don't love God, you ain't gonna live right. To love the Lord thy God with all, that word all is a big word with this first commandment. All thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength. Jesus said, This is the first commandment. This is the groundwork we laid on last Sunday, establishing this point. And I took you to Deuteronomy when, which is where God attempts to give man his first written commandment. And those are the ones that a lot of people get stuck on the first original commandments, which was the first ten. But what Moses also was trying to get over to the people is this, that what God is commanding us to do, he says, this is required. If you go back, we laid the groundwork of Deuteronomy chapter 10. Deuteronomy chapter 10, I use verse 12 and 13. And now, Israel, this Moses talking to the children of Israel in Deuteronomy. What does the Lord thy God require of thee? This is required. You cannot serve God and don't know whether or not you love Him or not. Because I'm gonna say this, and you can take it how you want to take it. If you truly love God, there will be signs in your life. There will be signs in your ways, there will be signs in your mannerism, how you carry yourself, how you and you definitely will see the love of God in your life when you are dealing with other people and how you treat people and how you talk to people. That's a sign that you love God. This is required. And if we ain't guided y'all, we are in error. Moses said, This is required to but to fear the Lord thy God. See, all this tie in with the first commandment. To walk in all his ways and live right, to love him. Ask yourself, do you love God? How are you talking about with your mind? Do you really love God down on the inside of yourself? This is what is required, y'all. We better get this thing right. Go back and tell them again, Moses. What does the Lord, thy God, require of thee? When something is required of a person, that means this is what I got to have. This is what God got to have. You're gonna come to God, you're gonna approach God, this is what is required. Go now and try to get a job now and fill out an application. They're gonna tell you now what is required to do this job. What is required for us to live right, and the stuff we got to go through down here, you got to show enough start first and make sure that you have love for God in your life. Feel the Lord walking all his ways to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul. This is required. Now, what is required? Have we established these requirements in our life? Let's tell the truth. Have we established these requirements? This is what we're gonna try to learn in this series. This is what we're gonna try to learn for the next true Sundays. To get this thing right. It's time, y'all. It's high time. Do y'all know we're on high alert? We should, we should consider ourselves on high alert as far as Jesus' return. And some of still sleofing around, shoo-shooing around, and dragging. As though this, they don't see the signs in the world that's going on. We on high alert. And we ain't even got the first of all commandments down right yet. Let alone the rest of them. Jesus tells us in Matthew, I'm gonna go on to part two. When he told the same thing, when Matthew wrote the same thing that Mark wrote, but in Matthew, he writes what Jesus says in that verse 38, Matthew 22 and 38. He said, Jesus says this. He said, This is the first and great commandment. This is part two of our series, the first and great commandment. See, now let us let us get to in this this part two. Let us get to the how we can acquire the knowledge of how to love the Lord. See, there first we get some we need to get some knowledge, because we don't know. Let's get some knowledge, but we need we don't know how to. But we ain't been taught that. Come on, Ladies, we ain't been taught how to love God in all these categories that He's requiring us to love Him. But the book don't tell us. Let's require the knowledge of how to love the Lord with all our heart. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. With all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our me, if you would, to share with you this spiritual truth, so that we may understand why it is that we must love God with our all. See, we're so far behind in our knowledge. Most of us don't know and have never known that it's more parts of us that can love other than just our heart and our mouth. And just fear with our mouth, brother. We don't know even about our what we are capable of spiritually. Listen to that, I'm gonna give you this truth. Let me give you this truth. And I want this to stick. God is God. Come on now. And we still, and right there, them three words, so many can't even begin to grasp because we don't really understand what kind of being God is. We don't. We just can't, our brains cannot fathom just what kind of being God really is. If if you was just to open your eyes and see God one second, you would drop dead. Instantaneously. God is God. I'm just gonna give you something. He cannot be loved or served as we would love or serve other things or other people. You can't you cannot apply how we do people and take that same method and apply it to God. It ain't gonna work. What I'm talking about, you cannot apply the way you love people and say I can love God like this too. It ain't gonna work. That ain't about to work.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

Let me tell you something. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 13:14

God must be loved in an extraordinary way because of who he is. You got to love him in an extraordinary way. See, you can get by loving man just with some of your heart, and that'll that'll suffice. That'll satisfy most people. Long as I know you love me, baby. Uh-uh. But see, when you go to God with love, you got to go to him and love him completely in all four areas. And most of us do not have a clue how to love God with our soul, with our minds and strength. We got a little bit of understanding when it comes to our heart, but we don't know how to love him in those other areas. And those are required just like the love for him of your heart. Let me go back and say that again because I want you to get in. If you're going to attempt to love, try to learn how to love God, know that God is God and you can't love him the same way like you love people. He cannot be loved or served as we would love or serve other things and other people. It ain't gonna work, y'all, because I'm trying to tell you something. I got to lay this groundwork before I go forward. God must be, God got to be loved in an extraordinary way. And that extraordinary way to love him is not gonna come from nothing you know of this earth, of this planet. It's got to come through the knowledge of what we can obtain spiritually, through the word, and through the guidance of the Holy Ghost. See, the reason we should understand why we must love Him with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our minds, and with all our strength is that in loving God with all, with our all. See, you read that all we reason why that word, all is a big word? Because when you give your all to God, it leaves no place for us to love anything or anybody else with our all. The only person, and I know a lot of people ain't gonna like this. That's all right. Pray for me. A lot of people ain't gonna be able to accept the fact of loving God with their all. Because in the back of your human mind, you already thinking, well, if I get God my, I can't love nobody else. That ain't what God's saying. Now, you got to be slow, spiritually. If you sit up here thinking the word of God is telling us that we can't love nobody else. Hear what the word is saying. Hear what the spirit is saying to the church. The word of God is telling us that God got to be first. Didn't what the book just said? Didn't Jesus say the first and great commandment means God got to be loved first. And we're missing the mystery. When God is requiring us to love him first in all these areas, what this truly means is what our brains ain't deciphering right, is that what God is gonna show you when you love him first with all your all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, all your spirit, what he's not, what we are not seeing is that if once we get to that point where we loving him with our own, it's only then, and I know you ain't gonna like this, it's only then that we will be capable of using that love we have for God and applying it to others. Come on now. You ever wonder why you ain't been loved right by the ones you think you all been loved right by? You ever wonder why you haven't been able to give your love like you always be able to give your love to other people? It's a reason for that, y'all, because we ain't thinking spiritually. I guarantee you this. If we had full love for God in all these areas, loving others will be so much easier. Why? Because we will be loving them with the love of God. The love of God in our hearts equips us to be able to love others. Hear me, others godly. Now, how many people in your life right now that say they love you love you godly? In a god-like manner, the way God wants you to love. See, when you follow the love of God in all these four areas, ain't nothing gonna come out of you but godly love. Because you got love for God. And that might be a little too deep for somebody. I hope not. When we get God completely in all these four areas, it will leave no place for us to love anything or anybody else with our all. You ain't never supposed to give nothing else your all. Not all your love. Only that's only for God. That's why it's the first and great commandment. If we are not careful, we could see ourselves loving other things greater than we love God. Be careful, careful, careful, brother and sister, be careful. Because some of us already got certain things on a higher level of love than God already. Whatever your thing is. Some of us already love those things and people more than we love God. Be careful, don't let that happen. Be careful, because that's you're going the wrong way. Let us understand also Hallelujah, that within us must be a yearning. That got to be a yearning in us, and a longing to be in relationship with the Lord. You got to wanna be with God, you got to wanna love God. So, understanding that there must be a yearning and a longing to be in relationship with God, we need to first let us do this. Let us deal with our heart love for God. Let's deal with the heart love. David had this type of love when he prayed to God in Psalm 108. You remember when he said he prayed? Oh God, my heart is fixed. See, when your heart is fixed on God, that means your heart is fixed on loving God.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 21:03

And say what you want. This world we live in does not cater to and does not teach us to love God. It teaches us to say God with our mouth, but saying God with our mouth is not proof that you love him. Knowing that he is God is not proof that you love him. See, to love God properly, properly, is to love him with a fixed heart. And don't let that move you. I mean it's fixed, it ain't going nowhere. It's gonna stay on God. To love him properly. See, some of us ain't loving God properly. Help us, Lord. Help us. To love him properly is with a fixed heart to love him. See, when a man loves a woman or when a man, let me say it like this.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

Let me say it like this.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 22:17

When a man or woman loves God, their hearts will be fixed and unmovable when it comes to loving God. See, there's a commitment that takes place. There's a dedication that takes place within us when we truly have a desire to seek the Lord in loving him. And get and getting ourselves to their place to start doing what is required of us. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

Let me bring some stuff down. Let me bring some stuff down. What is our heart spiritually speaking? See, some of us might not know.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 23:17

What is our heart spiritually? See, understand this. The word heart in the word of God is a metaphor for our inner being. Let me tell you something about your inner being.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

What makes you you?

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 23:37

This is our spiritual identity. I don't care how many millions and billions and billions of people that have been born in this world from since time began, there is no two people alike. Well, let me say it like this. There are no two people that have the same spirit or identity. You may have similar ways, but you have your own unique identity. Now it can be described as what is the totality of a person's inner being, which taps into our minds, our souls, and even our spirits. It can also be a source of our thoughts, emotions, our motivations, what causes us to make certain decisions. From the heart, spiritually, can also flow our actions and our character, what makes us who we are. And if that part of you, that inner being of who you are, is where we need to dig deep in loving God. Okay? But let us be warned now. Let us be warned and let us be aware when it comes to the heart. That the heart can harbor both good and evil. We know that now. It can harbor both good and evil. But if you don't let anything harbor in your heart, let it be good now. If we do not love God with all our hearts, we leave our, we open our, we keep ourselves open unto wrong coming in, evil coming in, which will pull us away from ever getting to that place in our lives where we love God with our all. That's why we got to be careful. See, that's some work that got to be done in all of us. And we don't have no time to waste. We must not leave any space for our love to gravitate towards anything ungodly. And in order to do this, we must love the Lord our God with all of it, as He has commanded us to do so. Oh. And another way you can describe this all is what God is always, what He really asking us, is when you got Him and loving Him with your all, that means you loving Him first. And I don't care who you come in contact with or who comes into your lives over the years you live on this earth, nobody else is supposed to take that place of being first in your life. I'm just getting you the truth. We must understand something. To love God with our all is a commandment. Don't never forget that this is a commandment. That means this is something God specifically is telling us we got to do. And this is why Jesus put emphasis on it, calling it the first and great commandment, because it applied to God. Only God gets the first and great stuff out of us. It applies to God. It is referenced to God. First and great, because God is great, and God is to be first. And keeping our obedience is for us to be glad. We should be glad to be obedient to this commandment. We should be glad. This is what Jesus said. Let me read something to you. Three verses. John 14, verse 15, verse 21, and verse 23. All this is Jesus talking. He says in John 14 and 15. That 15 verse says, Jesus said, if ye love me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. If you love me. What did he say? Keep my commandments. That means live them. Keep them a part of you. Everywhere you go. Let them be a part of you. See, because if you love me, this is what you're gonna do. See, if we love God, you know if we truly love God, y'all, doing right would not be no problem. Talking to people right wouldn't be no problem. Acting right would be no problem if we love God.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

Thinking right would be no problem.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 29:11

Because the love of God and the love for God will be in your heart. And Jesus had to say it this way because the truth is he knew that everybody didn't love God and everybody still don't love God. That's why he said, if. If you love me. See, it's that love for God in your heart. When you love God with all your heart, that's gonna cause you to keep whatever he's saying. Whether they be in the form of his commandments, whether they be in the form of his statute, whether they be in the form of his ways, whether they be written in his word, you're gonna keep it. Which means you're gonna do it and you're gonna live it. I'm gonna tell you the truth right now. I hope this word this morning is staining a lot of people. I hope this word this morning is hitting somebody and stepping on somebody's toes. Because we've been playing long enough. If you love me, keep my commandments. Verse 21, here's what Jesus said, He that has my commandments and keepeth them, live by them, get up by them, lay down by them. Go about your business daily by them. He it is that loves me. It's so evident, and it's so obvious that some of us don't love God because we act the fool almost every other day. We show out all the time. We behave in ungodly ways and manners all the time. And all you showing God, I ain't talking about people, what you showing God is that you don't love him and that you are not keeping his commandments or his word. This Jesus talking, he said, he that has my commandments, that had me, got them in his lights. He that's done applied my commandments to his heart and keep them. He lived by them. She lived by them. He it is that love me. That you know why Jesus said that? He just said, when I see this in somebody's life, this is the person that loves me. When I see somebody putting forth their effort to do what's right, them is who love me. When I see somebody trying to make sure that they don't step out of line of my word, them is them that love me. And he that loves me, this is back in scripture one, shall be loved of my father. Come on now. This is one of the benefits when Jesus sees that you love him. You love me. You my father's gonna love you. And I will love him. Come on now. Anybody know what it's like to be loved by God?

SPEAKER_00 32:47

Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

Hallelujah.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 32:54

Hallelujah. Is anybody out there know what it's like to be loved by Jesus? And you can feel it. But on top of that, when I see that you love me, and my father sees that you love me, my father's gonna love you, and I'm gonna love you. Well, what's another benefit, Jesus? And will manifest myself to him. In other words, Jesus is gonna show up in your life and he's gonna show himself to you. You know why he wouldn't do that? Because you love it. Don't you show yourself to people that you love? But just think this is this is on a higher level. When Jesus shows up, what the word manifest means? That means he's gonna show himself. He's gonna reveal himself to you in a blessed way. And some of us right now, we need to see Jesus in a desperate way. We need to see Jesus written up. But we ain't following the formula or the format where requires him to show himself because you ain't keeping his commandments. You don't love him. Who wants to go around somebody that you know they don't love you? No, they don't care nothing about you. You're gonna go around him, or are you subject to be around those who you know love you? But this is what Jesus is saying. He that has my commandments and keepeth them, he it is, and she it is that love me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my father. Come on now. Some of us right now don't know we couldn't handle if we really understood the love of the Father. I will love him and will manifest myself to him. Verse 23. Let me try to move on. Get part two now. Jesus said to them in verse 23, if a man love me, a woman, hallelujah. This when love, see, when this is when you love the Lord with all your heart, y'all. That's what this means when you love the Lord with all your heart. If a man love me, if a woman love me, he or she will keep my word. See how that tie in. Whatever you see in the word of God, what God said keeping his statutes, keeping his commandments, keep his ways, keep his word, all that's the same thing. It all ties in. It means whatever the Lord done said, do. He said, He will keep my words, hallelujah, and my father will love him or her, and we, me and me and father, will come unto him. Hallelujah, and make our abode with him, old Greek word abode. And another form of the word abode is the word abide. Jesus saying, Me and the Father will abide with you. Another definition of a word, the word abide, the word abode, means they will come and live with you. Within you. You know what makes it easy? Why it's possible when you love God and keeping his word for them to come and live within you, abide with you? Because the love for him is in your heart. And God has no problem living within someone who has love for him. When you have love for God in your heart, you have made a place for God to come and live within you. Come on now, somebody. Come on now. Somebody needs to be grabbing this. Jesus and the Father can come and abide and make an abode with us because we have made peace and a place for them in our heart for them to live. You know why God ain't living in some of us and can't and ain't abiding in some of us? We ain't made no place for him. He ain't got no space in there. Because your heart is too crowded with ugliness and stuff you don't need in your heart. Selfishness, stubbornness, meanness, anger, foolishness, ungodliness, wickedness. They ain't gonna come live with all that junk in you. Just no more than you want to go live in an old junk house. Uh-uh. What I just back up and told y'all a few minutes ago. God is God, and you got to love him in an extraordinary way. Which means you got to get yourself together for them to come and make their boom and want to live in you. Getting all that junk out of you and replacing all that stuff that you moved off and replacing it with all your heart and love for God makes a place for God to come and live and abide in you. Because what Jesus said, He it is that love me. When I see you love me, there are some benefits. Some of us don't be able to know the benefits of loving God. What Jesus just described, because we still haven't done what we need to do in our own lives. I'm sorry, y'all. I got to give y'all the word. I gotta give y'all the truth. And let's go for me and everybody else. This is the truth. See, let's get real here, y'all, for a minute. Loving God is not something that's optional or selected. If we expect to gain eternal life, yeah, I'm gonna go there. Our love for God must be genuine and real. And it must be on the level of which he has instructed us to have it. Other words, it's got to be according to what he done said, how he done said, for us to do it. Bottom line, I'm saying, it's got to be his way. And if we ain't doing it his way, we are in error and we are wrong. And ain't no wrong going to hell. Now, now here's the truth right here. Let me give you some more truth. If we find ourselves not loving God in the four areas of love which are required, we will find ourselves never fully obeying him in realness. But in fact, we will find ourselves being hypocritical and living a life of legalism and falsehood. Come on now, go back, tell me what legalism is. Legalism basically is this the way the world, people in this world think that they long as they do good deeds and say good things to people, they can keep living like they want to live, whether it's right or wrong. I did something for somebody. I helped somebody. That's legalism. But not applying, living according to the word to their lives. Because they have been taught or they've been led to believe that as long as I do right to others. Well, you know, there's a whole lot of people that done nothing right to others that are gonna be in hell. This is a this thing, you got to live this thing along with treating people right. So many people want to get in because they think they've done good towards others. But if people, that ain't gonna get you in. What's gonna get you in if you live according to the word of God? And we we set up and allow ourselves to become hypocrites and live false lives, and we perpetrate before others as though we are saved and filled the Holy Ghost, and some of them bachelor years ago, and have not repented and got ourselves back to God. See, this type of spirit to love God in spirit and in truth was in Paul. And she longed to know the Lord on a deeper level. Remember when he said the Philippians? That I may know him. Hallelujah. I want to know him. He had a desire to love God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Where is our desire to love God and our Lord Jesus Christ today? Where is our desire? We have more desire to do foolishly, to live foolishly, to live ignorantly, to live wordily than a desire to know the Lord, to have a desire to love the Lord. See the mystery we need is here. The mystery of the kind of love for God we need to love Him with when it comes to our all. This is the mystery right here. And you got to you got to grab this spiritually. But that's why it's a mystery because you can't understand it naturally. The kind of love. For God, we need to love Him with, and all for us to love Him with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our minds, and with all our strength. That love has to come from God. Because you can't get it on earth. That has to come from God. I mean, from God has to give you a put that seed in you. Hallelujah. To love Him as He ought to be loved. Now, where that seed comes from? I don't care where it comes, I care where it comes from. When you accept Christ, because we know the Son loved the Father. Okay, look at this now spiritually. When you allow Jesus in your life, everything about Jesus comes into your life. What I'm talking about. That means the love that Jesus has for the Father is now in you through Jesus. Whereas you didn't have a love for God at first, now because you'd accepted Jesus, and with Jesus comes not only the benefits of salvation, not only the benefits of eternal life, but also the seed of him and how he loved the Father. Now you can love the Father the same way Jesus did through him. Grab it, somebody. I need somebody to grab this truth now. Even what I'm trying to tell you. Which goes back to what I mean when I say that love to love God the way he ought to be loved, it has to come from him. But it comes from him through Jesus to us. Now when we get Jesus, that love seed that's planted up through Christ, now it can start to develop and germinate out towards God. And we will find ourselves loving God just as strongly as Jesus loves him. Because we got to him the Son in our lives, and the Son always loved the Father. And so many of us miss this truth. We miss this. If you ever read I John chapter 4, verse 19, was John who had captain to this. This John the disciple that was, he said, we love him, talking about God, because he first loved us. John says in I John 4 and 19, we love him. Those who are seeking to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, we love him because he first loved us. In all of us, those who love God right now, I guarantee you, the only reason you're able to love God the way you do is because he put his love in you first through Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 47:28

Okay, I'm gonna flip this thing over and I hope it's gonna hit somebody on the big toe.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 47:37

If you have no love for God the way you ought to have love for God, could it be that you have not let Jesus come into your heart yet? That's the only way you're gonna get it. We all need that. I said, Well, do I love Jesus? Do I have I have I surrendered and let Jesus into my heart? The reason why I don't love God. And that when it says we love him, that means we, the we who have allowed the love of God to come into your life, because you saw how much he loved you and giving his only begotten son for you. Now you will, because you saw the love he showed towards you by through salvation, through redemption, through man regulating, you are glad now to love him because he showed love first. Why do you think now he is requiring us to first live according to the first and great commandment? Because he loved first. Now we need to love him. We need to, he needs to be first in our lives on who we love by keeping the first and great commandment. Where we must start in our loving of God with everything in us is to commit to seeking God's way, his nature, and character as revealed in the word of God. True knowledge, which will produce true love, involves listening and doing his word. It involves following his spirit, it involves responding to his guidance in faith, in truth, and obedience. Bottom line is this we have got to want to love God. You got to want to love. Like they want you to love them. But we should have love for everybody. But some people want more of your love.

SPEAKER_01 50:30

And when it comes to love, we are required to love God.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 50:45

Not because of pressure, not because somebody trying to make you. Means we got to love him perfectly. What does that mean according to his word? When you have tapped in, finally tapped in in loving God, just like his word says love him, you have tapped into perfect love. Our God, who is perfect, must be loved with perfect love. And this can only come about through seeking him perfectly, through his word and living in accordance to it. To be able to take account of ourselves and admit that we do not love the Lord with all that is in us should give us an awareness and an awakening. Wake up, an awakening that we are coming up short in our love for God. And it should also reveal unto us why we are not loving him righteously. If we are not loving him the way he requires it of us, we are not loving him right or in the way our God deserves to be loved by us.

SPEAKER_01 52:55

God bless you.

Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 52:57

Part three of the first and great commandment, Lord say the same, on next Sunday. Which will be for Sunday. We've been dealing with part three. And in part three, I want to get into, since I dealt with the heart, I want to finish up the heart and get into the soul. On next Sunday, Lord said the same.

SPEAKER_01 53:26

How to love God with your soul. God bless you.