“You got to love yourself first” is presented as the missing step in the order of love.
1. RRC Bible Study Podcast centers on Pastor Dennis Martin’s teaching titled “Proper Order of Love!”
2. Pastor Dennis Martin leads the teaching as the pastor of Restoration Revival Church of God in Christ, and his role matters because he reads the scripture and applies it directly to church life.
3. The episode asks what order love should follow, and Martin answers with God first, self second, and neighbor third.
4. Martin opens with 1 Corinthians 14:40, saying, “Let all things be done decently and in order,” and he uses church worship as the example.
5. He adds Genesis 22:9, where Abraham “lay the wood in order,” to show that biblical obedience includes arrangement and sequence.
6. He reads Luke 10:27 and Matthew 22:37-39, both of which command love for God and love for neighbor.
7. He also quotes Mark 12:30-31, where Jesus calls loving God the “first commandment” and loving neighbor the second.
8. Martin says the first order of love is to love God with “all thy heart,” “all thy soul,” “all thy strength,” and “all thy mind.”
9. He warns that people can love church traditions, pastors, and denominations while failing to love God as “first love.”
10. He points to Revelation’s language about a church that had “left thy first love” as his warning example.
11. Martin reads 1 John 4:7-8 and 1 John 4:16, repeating the line “God is love” and saying love is the evidence of knowing God.
12. He says that when people first get saved, they often do not want to miss church and feel it when they miss worship.
13. He contrasts that with people who miss church after the pandemic but still make time for the mall or shopping.
14. The second order is self-love, which he ties to the phrase “love thy neighbor as thyself” in Luke 10:27 and Leviticus 19:18.
15. He also reads Leviticus 19:34, Romans 13:9, Galatians 5:14, and James 2:8 to show that the same pattern appears across scripture.
16. Martin says people who do not love themselves often have low self-esteem, misread confidence as arrogance, and mistreat other people.
17. The third order is loving your neighbor as yourself, which he connects to Hebrews 10:24, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, and Colossians 3:16.
18. He describes that love as considering one another, provoking one another to good works, and teaching with Psalms and hymns.
19. The tone is a direct Bible-study sermon with repeated scripture readings, personal testimony, and a steady instructional cadence.
20. People who want practical Christian teaching on love, order, and self-worth will fit this episode, while listeners wanting a light or story-driven show may skip it.
