I am reading through "Think on These Things" a daily devotional by Ray Comfort and the other day he pointed out something I had not connected before.
Matthew 22:34-40
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 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. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
If "love God with all your heart, soul and mind" is the greatest commandment, then to not do that is the greatest sin. There is nothing more sinful than not loving God with everything you have and all sins are essentially some variance of that core sin.
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