Luke 10:25-28

If we love God we will love our neighbors. God is love.

How can we love Him who we cannot see and not love His creation that we can. If we love others, as God loves them, we will do them no harm.

Love fulfills the Law.

James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Luke 10:25-28

25 And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?”

27 So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

28 And He said to him, “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.”

To entrap Jesus in argumentation for the purpose of discrediting Him. Since He is conversing with a legal expert, Jesus appeals to the law. The lawyer’s answer parallels Jesus’ teaching in Matthew and Mark about the greatest commandments. These commands reflect the heart of Jesus’ proclamation of the kingdom of God: love of God and love of neighbor. Faithllife Bible.

The question posed by the lawyer is really a challenge, since the verse speaks of the testing of Jesus. To inherit something is to receive it. In other words, the man was asking, “What must I do to share in the reward at the resurrection of the righteous at the end?” Jesus countered the lawyer’s test by having him answer his own question.

The lawyer responded to Jesus’ questions by quoting Deuteronomy 6:5, a text that was recited twice a day by every faithful Jew. This text summarized the central ethical standard of the Law. 

Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

The lawyer also alluded to Leviticus.19:18. The basis of the man’s response is an expression of allegiance and devotion that also can be seen as the natural expression of faith, since the total person, heart, soul, strength, and mind, is involved. 

Leviticus 19:18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

The theme of love for God has its emphasis on devotion to Jesus, and where the disciples are taught to be devoted to God in prayer. Jesus develops the theme of love for one’s neighbor. Jesus was not saying that righteousness is the result of works. Rather He was saying that love for and obedience to God will be a natural result of placing one’s faith in the Lord. Those who believe in Jesus and follow Him will receive eternal rewards. Jesus states this principle to Peter in Matthew 19:27–30. NKJ BIble.

Matthew 19:27 Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?” 28 So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. 30 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

Ezekiel 20:11 |And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them.’