Debt of Love
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I Owe You: Debt of Love
Being in debt is never fun, nor is it easy. As a country, we know what it is like to be in debt. Our national debt is astronomical. It is roughly 31 trillion dollars. If you were to break that down, that would be $93,000 per citizen or $247,000 per taxpayer.
7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Bold all owed.
The first owed is taxes. Don’t you love paying taxes? Oregon trip: If it cost $5, then it is $5 no sales tax.
7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Bold taxes
Taxes: Slide only
15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. 16 And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone’s opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances. 17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” 18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? 19 Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. 20 And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” 21 They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” 22 When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away.
7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Revenue: If you purchase something you should pay what they are asking or willing to take.
Before SKU numbers: Price tag stickers.
Respect: Greek word Phobos to fear. A healthy fear a son has toward his Dad.
Even when my Dad was bed stricken with cancer I had a healthy fear of him.
Honor: Pastor of 80 years.
8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Owe no one anything. - This is a good practice. It feels great when you don’t owe anything to anyone. But when we do owe something we can feel obligated.
Tough young ladies at camp: You owe me. I don’t owe you $#!%.
8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
except to love each other
Love: is the Greek word: Agape or selfless love. This is not a love of emotion or feeling it loves even when the object or person being loved does not deserve to be loved. Our love all to often is a conditional love. If you are nice to me I will be nice to you. If you love me I will love you. So this is a unconditional Godly love.
8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Bold: By this all ppl will know that you are my disciples (If) you have love for one another.
If the only thing I am to owe, is a debt to love others. What are some ways I can show a debt of love?
Show a debt of love listening.
Show a debt of love with generosity.
Show a debt of love by encouraging.
Show a debt of love with acts of kindness.
Show a debt of love by praying for others.
Show a debt of love by forgiving.
Show a debt of love when they least expect it and least deserve it.
At the beginning of my sermon, I mentioned that our national debt is roughly 31 trillion dollars. It will never get paid off.
The one debt we as Christ followers should never pay off is the debt of love to others.
So that awkward feeling you have when you run into someone owe money to? We should muster that same feeling for everyone that we come into contact with. Not that we owe them money but that we owe them only one debt. One debt. That is the debt of love.