How to Love Your Neighbor

Loving Your Neighbor – Fifth Sunday of Easter

What did Jesus say are the two greatest commandments? _____________________________

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Mat 22:37-39 ESV  And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  (38)  This is the great and first commandment.  (39)  And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

From where did Jesus get that? ______________________________________________________.

What does it mean for us to love our neighbor as ourselves? – See Leviticus 19:9-18

In the Bible “love” is much more deed than emotion or feeling.

Lev 19:9-10. How do we love a neighbor who is poor? __________________________________

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How might we help guard their being made in the image of God? ________________________

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Leviticus 19:11. What does it mean to love your neighbor regarding his or her property and truth and trust? ____________________________________________________________________

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Leviticus 19:12. How does swearing by God’s name falsely violate loving my neighbor? ____

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Leviticus 19:13. How does loving our neighbor affect how I treat a worker? _______________

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Why did God command to pay the same day? _________________________________________.

This was to protect the poor worker. How might we do that in the modern workplace? _____

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What are some ways that people oppress workers today? ______________________________

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It is not in this Scripture, but how do you think loving my neighbor should affect how I treat my employer? ______________________________________________________________________.

Leviticus 19:14. What does it mean to love a disabled neighbor? ________________________

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Leviticus 19:15. Does loving our neighbor mean either favoring the poor over the rich, or favoring the rich over the poor? _______________________________________________________

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Leviticus 19:16. How does loving our neighbor impact what we tell others about them? ___

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Leviticus 19:17-18a. How does loving our neighbor impact how we hold on to grudges or seek revenge? ______________________________________________________________________

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Loving our neighbor comes down to what we do. Does loving our neighbor gain us access to heaven? ________________________________________________________________________.

What then is the importance of loving our neighbor? ___________________________________

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