How to Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

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If you keep ending up in toxic relationships or keep repeating your family's worst habits, start with how to love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus said the greatest commandments are to love God with everything and to love your neighbor as yourself, and you cannot do the second well if you cannot love yourself. God's love takes the baggage of your past and calls you out of patterns that keep hurting you. In this sermon, Pastor Kaloma Smith of UAMEZ Church in Palo Alto, California preaches on Matthew 22:36-40 and shows how God's love teaches us to love ourselves and then our neighbors. Preached in October 2022. Questions this sermon answers What is the greatest commandment? Jesus answered with two: love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. Why is it so hard to love yourself? You know every secret and old wound, and many of us still hear the voices that put us down as kids. How do I break toxic relationship patterns? Answer God's call to walk away from the drama, and pray for godly people instead of choosing the same kind of partner again. Does God's love actually change you? Yes. As you keep walking with Jesus, your attitude and your relationships start to change from the inside. Scripture: Matthew 22:36-40; Deuteronomy 6:5; Leviticus 19:18 Chapters 0:00 Matthew 22:36-40: the greatest commandment 1:08 What's Love Got to Do with It and toxic relationships 4:15 The trick question Jesus was asked 6:44 Love God, then love your neighbor as yourself 13:47 Atoning love: drop the baggage of your past 19:14 Answering God's call out of toxic patterns 28:24 Love that changes you Join us Sundays at 10 AM PT, 3549 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306, or live at youtube.com/@uamez Plan your visit: uamez.com Instagram: instagram.com/uamezchurch Facebook: facebook.com/uamezchurch #UAMEZChurch #LoveYourNeighbor #Matthew22