2. Matthew 22:34-40
34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

3. 1 John 4:20-21
20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

4. Love for others proves our love for God
James 2:26 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Works prove our faith
Luke 6:46 46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
Obedience proves our belief in God’s sovereignty
1 John 4:20 … for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Love for others proves our love for God

5. Image of God means that humans like God and represents God.
Definition:
Image of God means that humans like God and represents God.

6. James 3:9
9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

7. “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”
Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
–C.S. Lewis