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The Upside Down World, Week 6, Day 2

by David Joynt on October 16, 2017


 

LUKE 10:26-28

 

Jesus undermines the lawyer’s self-righteousness in two ways, and the first way doesn’t work. He asks the lawyer what the Bible says he must do and receives an intelligent reply in the form of the double love command—to love God fully and to love neighbor as we do ourselves. But the lawyer misses the difficulty of fulfilling this obligation. Who loves God with their whole heart, allowing him to focus all their emotions and desires 24/7? Who is able to love God with their whole soul, determining every practice and priority and motivation by his goodness? Who can master all their thoughts according to his faithful guidance? Is there anyone whose every action reflects God’s glory? There is no one who can do this, save Jesus. 

 

 

Which of the four parts of the Great Commandment is hardest for you?

 

 

Why is this? 

 

FAMILY TIME—

Talk about what it means to love God partially versus loving him completely.

 

Tags: self-righteousness

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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