The Beatles had a pretty good idea about life when they wrote the song "All you need is love" back in July of 1967. They were asked to write an inspirational song for what would be the first ever global telecast, called "Our World". Given the global audience they were asked to write a song with a simple message that the world could understand. What they came up with was as profound, cliche, sappy, and true, as any message ever conveyed could be. However, one of the biggest rock stars ever, gave the same message in front of a sold out crowd about 2000 years ago.
The story is in Matthew Chapter 22 and, in typical fashion, after giving an extremely profound parable (The Wedding Banquet), and duping the Sadducees, and the Pharisees twice in their attempts to fool him into saying something that would cause him to be arrested, the Pharisees and the Sadducees got together and used real scripture from Moses to trick him, and they asked him which is the greatest commandment of the law.37Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’b 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’c 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Quite simply, all you need is Love, Love for God, Love for your neighbor, Love for your enemy, Love for ALL. That is our job here on this earth. We are to spread the Love that Jesus Christ gave us and told us about. We are supposed to spread his message - through Love! That is all we need to spread his message! All you need is Love.
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