Love: The Fulfillment of The Law
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When we started out in this chapter we looked at how and why we should be submissive to our leaders and give them what is due.
This week we are looking at the cause of that obedience.
The Debt of Love (v8)
The Debt of Love (v8)
The love of God and the love of others is a debt we can never repay.
Obedience is the heart of faithful Christian living.
When it comes to loving others and being a good citizen, this ultimately comes from a love of God.
We obey God and love others because of our love for God.
It is through obedience to God that believers have blessing, joy, and spiritual power.
The best example that we have to follow is that of Jesus himself.
Look at John 4:34
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Also John 6:38
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Obedience demands the exercise of will under the prompting and the power of the Holy Spirit, just as in coming to the Lord for Salvation.
Love comes into the picture because you will never have obedience to something that you do not have Love for.
Love fulfills the law in that we obey God and all the Law was were 10 rules that had to be obeyed.
Loving each other is a debt that is never repaid.
The Discharge of Love (v9-10)
The Discharge of Love (v9-10)
Love is the action of and outward sign of obedience.
The 10 Commandments can be broken down into 2 types of commands
Ones between humans and humans or ones between God and humans.
Jesus summed up this idea when He spoke about the love that is required to fulfill the law.
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.”