Salvation is quite simple. Yet, sadly and unfortunately, it is often skewed and misconstrued. It's best to keep the simple, simple. Beyond that you'll always wind up in trouble, lost and with something that just isn't true, i.e. is false.

Jesus was never one to labor on with long-winded explanations and many times avoided them altogether. Salvation was no exception.

“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”

 He answered: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

And famously, the expert asked "who is my neighbor?" which prompted Jesus to tell the story of the Good Samaritan. Jesus typically told stories rather than teaching lessons, because he understood that if you have "ears to hear" you will learn the lesson and if you don't then there's no point in teaching you.

The question we're left with from his answer to "love God" and "love your neighbor" is not so much "who", like the expert asked, but "how"?

To this Jesus gives us two simple directives, which were the founding cry of his ministry:


This is how you fulfill the two greatest commandments to “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”  You repent and believe.

(To be continued...)

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