No one likes ______________ unless they create them.
3 Models of Rules:
• _____________ rules
• _____________ rules
• _________________ _________________ rules
_________________ tends to focus on rules over relationship.
[Exodus 20:1-2] Then God gave the people all these instructions: [2] “I am the Lord your God,
who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
The 10 Commandments were a ____________________ of, not a condition of, Israel's
relationship with God.
[John 1:12] But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become
children of God.
Anything God requires is _______________ of His love for you.
[Matthew 22:34-40] But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees with
his reply, they met together to question him again. [35] One of them, an expert in religious law,
tried to trap him with this question: [36] “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in
the law of Moses?” [37] Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all
your soul, and all your mind.’ [38] This is the first and greatest commandment. [39] A second is
equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ [40] The entire law and all the demands of
the prophets are based on these two commandments.”
He's saying all the law and prophets hang on ______________.
If we are ________________ God and people there becomes no reason for rules.
Rules without relationship becomes _______________.
Jesus' Rule Book:
1. Love _____________
2. Love _____________
[John 13:34-35] So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I
have loved you, you should love each other. [35] Your love for one another will prove to the
world that you are my disciples.”
_____________ don't make you right with God. _____________ makes us right with God.
