Primary Commandment (Mark 12)

Mark 12 : 1 - 12

The story of the vineyard owner.
The Lord foretelling His treatment and death, and rebuking the leaders
of the church.
All scripture is for our own good.
We also have been entrusted with His treasure, lets not abuse
what we have been given that like the pharisees we are ashamed.

Mark 12 : 13 - 17

Our Lord teaches about obeying the rules of the government regarding
taxes.

Mark 12 : 18 - 27

The religious leaders of the time try to trap the Lord regarding the
resurrection which they did not believe in.

24 Jesus answered and said to them, “Are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God?
25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
26 But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses,
in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.”

Do we Christ-Followers know the power of our Father, in Him even the dead to us are alive and He never refers to them as dead.
Those alive in Him are alive for all eternity.

Mark 12 : 28 - 34

“Which is the first commandment of all?”
29 Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is:
‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
This is the first commandment.[c] 31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
There is no other commandment greater than these.”

I have nothing more to add. The benefit we can never describe when we in obedience live the primary commandment.

Mark 12 : 38 - 43

“Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces,
39 the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts,
40 who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

“Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;
44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.”

Look at the contrast in the attitude of the heart and mind.
Who of these two kinds of people do you think lives in obedience to the primary commandment we just read?
Who mimics the life of our Lord in both attitude and heart?

Our Lord lived the primary commandment, came to show us the way, let us be wise and guard our hearts and minds.