Guest Preacher: Joel Fair Scripture: Mark 12:28-34 Community Group Questions 1. What was the life-pursuit of a scribe? 2. What was the question that this scribe asked of Jesus? 3. What do you think of the two different “spheres” of relationship that these two commandments govern? 4. In verse 33, the scribe comments on Jesus’s answer. Why do you think Mark says that “Jesus saw that he answered wisely”? Why do you think Jesus says, “you are not far from the kingdom of God”? 5. In the sermon, Joel said, “this passage is not a prescription for how we should live, this is about who Jesus is.” What does this mean? Read Galatians 2:20-21 - How are we to live the Christian life in relation to these two commandments according to what Paul says here? _______________________________________________ SERMON NOTES 1. LOVE GOD - VS 28-30 2. LOVE OTHERS - VS 31 3. THE KING IS HERE - VS 32-34 4. REPENT & BELIEVE Mark 1:15 (ESV) The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel._ Colossians 1:19 (ESV) For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,_ Psalm 119:1–8 (ESV) Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments. I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules. I will keep your statutes; do not utterly forsake me!_ John 14:15 (ESV) If you love me, you will keep my commandments._ 1 John 4:7–11 (ESV) Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another._ Matthew 5:17 (ESV) Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them._ Galatians 2:20–21 (ESV) I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.