What Jesus called “the Greatest Commandment” was given in Deuteronomy 6:5 and then quoted in Matt. 22:37 and Mark 12:30. Moses said to love God with all your heart, soul and strength. Jesus in Matthew said love God with all your heart, soul and mind. Jesus in Mark said love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. The differences are not significant in my view. Matthew was his own eye-witness, having been present when Jesus said these words. Jesus was agreeing with Moses, to love God with all your being. Mark’s source may have mentioned all four aspects so as to include what Moses said and what Jesus said. No one would call any of these a “misquote.”
What I do want to consider is, what does it mean to love God with all your heart? Why settle on this one? Perhaps because, as Solomon said, out of the heart are all the issues of life (Pr. 4:23). Jesus said your treasure is so designated a “treasure” by your heart (Mt. 6:21)! He also said, Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things (Matt. 12:34-35). The heart is the big issue!
Having said that, there are a couple of things to address in some detail, primarily by giving you Scripture to read. It doesn’t need much comment in my view.
First, if I am going to love God with all my heart, I need a new heart!
Consider God’s word to Israel by Moses as they were about to enter the land.
2 Now Moses called all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land— 3 the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. 4 Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day. (Dt. 29:2-4)
Israel would struggle because the people did not have a heart to perceive. This is why Paul could conclude that the law entered that sin might abound (Rom. 5:20). The law could not make a man righteous nor could a man attain to the righteousness of the law (Rm. 8:3; 9:31). Therefore, God promised a new heart.
And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. (Deut. 30:6).
David prayed for this: Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a steadfast spirit within me (Psa. 51:10). Jesus told Nicodemus that he could not see the kingdom of God nor could he enter without a new heart (John 3).
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