Love and Loyalty To God Above All Others

In the Master’s cogent response comes the revelation of how people today have actually reversed that which is most important. Look at verse 29:

29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’” 

Can you see that, “The most important [Commandment],” says Jesus, is to “love the Lord your God.” It’s only after our Lord teaches this that we then get to verse 31 — The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 

As I see it, we must come to understand that while there are no greater commandments than these, they are simply not equal to each other. Look at verse 31 again from the KJV — “And the second is like, namely this”; meaning obviously that it is not the first, nor the most important.

Tied up in our very commission as the Body of Christ, His Church, is our Lord’s clear command in John 20:21 — “As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you..”  Therefore our allegiance as “ambassadors for Christ” is to be fiercely loyal to the LORD our God no matter whom it is we must facedown or confront.

It is from this kind of love for God that Christ will then move through us to do all the things He wants us to do.

~Excerpts from Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries

Indeed, also in Scripture God show just how important His Word is:

Psa 138:2  I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.

So, as those in Christ Jesus, we are to love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength--above all other people.

As those in Christ Jesus we are also to hold up, exalt, and regard Scripture above everything else on this earth, including all philosophies, psychologies, advice, counseling, relationships, experiences, "missions", deeds.

In other words those who are truly saved will be loyal to Christ Jesus and the Scriptures above everyone and everything else. 

To many "Christians" think relationships and missions/experiences trump Scripture and loyalty to God. What they are actually promoting is DISloyalty to God and having loyalty for men instead. This is idolatry, disobedience, and ends up with pragmatic religious junk.