{"id":6295,"date":"2025-01-27T20:59:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2025-02-26T17:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:46:50","slug":"can-you-love-your-family-more-than-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/can-you-love-your-family-more-than-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 29: Can You Love Your Family More Than God?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Episode 29: Can You Love Your Family More Than God\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/1C2RG3JSwim6UeZvE7x8h1?si=8407819cc5b24ab7&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/should-christians-be-certain-of-their-salvation\/\">Previous Episode<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/episode-30-response-to-bishop-barron-and-ben-shapiro-can-jews-be-saved-apart-from-faith-in-christ\/\">Next Episode<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Episode 29 of the Christ for Us Bible Study Podcast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second Table of the Law: \u201cYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.&nbsp;<sup>38&nbsp;<\/sup>This is the great and first commandment.&nbsp;<sup>39&nbsp;<\/sup>And&nbsp;a second is like it:&nbsp;You shall love your neighbor as yourself.&nbsp;<sup>40&nbsp;<\/sup>On these two commandments depend&nbsp;all the Law and the Prophets.\u201d <strong>Matthew 22:37-40<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both tables command you to love. 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Yet, the first table commands a different intensity of love than the second. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.&nbsp;<sup>38&nbsp;<\/sup>And&nbsp;whoever does not take his cross and&nbsp;follow me is not worthy of me.&nbsp;<sup>39&nbsp;<\/sup>Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.&#8221; <strong>Matthew 10:37-39<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf anyone comes to me and&nbsp;does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters,&nbsp;yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.&#8221; <strong>Luke 14:26<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explanation to every Commandment after the First Commandment in Luther&#8217;s Small Catechism begins, &#8220;We should fear and love God, so that&#8230;&#8221; because we cannot love our neighbor without first loving God. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 29 of the Christ for Us Bible Study Podcast Second Table of the Law: \u201cYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.&nbsp;38&nbsp;This is the great and first commandment.&nbsp;39&nbsp;And&nbsp;a second is like it:&nbsp;You shall love your neighbor as yourself.&nbsp;40&nbsp;On these two&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/can-you-love-your-family-more-than-god\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[684,682,683],"class_list":["post-6295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-bible-study-podcast","tag-catechesis","tag-first-table-of-the-law","tag-second-table-of-the-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6353,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}