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TO WHOM DO I OWE LOVE?
Romans 13:8-
You owe it to others to love them.
You owe it to others to love them.
Who are these “others” to whom I owe love?
Who are these “others” to whom I owe love?
On the one hand we owe it to our Christian brothers and sisters to love them.
When Paul wrote, “Owe no one anything, except to love each other...”, the “each other” is the Greek term allelous which means “other of the same kind”.
It refers to our Christian brothers and sisters in our church family, in our community and the world over.
This is what Paul has already taught us in 12:9-13: we owe it to our Christian brothers and sisters to love them.
On the other hand, we owe it to everyone in our sphere of influence to love them.
When Paul went on in verse 8 and wrote, “...for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.” he used a different Greek word for “another”.
He used the Greek word, heteron which means “other of a different kind”.
It refers to people who are not yet saved.
It includes our neighbors, coworkers, fellow students, unsaved family and friends and anyone who comes into our sphere of influence who is not yet saved.
We owe love to Christians and non-Christians alike.
But this runs completely counter to what the world tells us.
The world tells us the only people we are obligated to love are members of our family and even that is negotiable.
The world also tells us to only love those who love us.
Our flesh, when we were in Adam, told us to love ourselves.
Experience also tells us that we’re going to get hurt.
But God says we owe love to others.
Here, then, is an issue about which our minds need to be renewed according to the truth of God’s Word.
We owe love to Christians and nonChristians alike.
We owe love to everyone in our sphere of influence.
Will you accept this truth and let the Holy Spirit renew your mind?
Once we’re clear as to whom we owe love we next need to understand what love is according to God’s Word.
The world says love is primarily a feeling of attraction or a feeling of desire.
Is God telling us we need to generate a warm feeling of affection for everyone in our sphere of influence?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LOVE OTHERS?
Romans 13:8-10
What does it mean to love others?
The love here is agape.
In verses 9-10 Paul gives us one aspect of loving others: love does no wrong to a neighbor.
If we love someone we will do them no harm.
On the positive side, we love others by doing them good.
We see this in 12:9-13
Consider Dallas Willard’s definition of love:
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And first, what exactly is love?
It is will to good or “bene-volence.”
We love something or someone when we promote its good for its own sake.
This is a great working definition of love - to do good to others.
For me, I need this simple, concrete definition of love because I am so prone to live out of my feelings.
There are times, usually at the end of a busy day, that I find myself standing at the kitchen sink with dirty dishes and cups and silverware that need to be washed or put in the dishwasher.
An inner argument often erupts:” I’m tired and if I just leave it I know Cathy or Eileen will take of it.
But what is the loving thing to do?
How can I do good to Cathy knowing she likes a clean kitchen?”
I still have to talk myself through things like this.
And here is the power of this concrete definition of love - to do good to others.
I can ask this question about everyone in my sphere of influence: “How can I do good to them?”
It is a very practical guide in relating to those closest to us or to the person waiting on us at Ramona Cafe.
At this point you may be wondering why we are obligated to love others.
When we go into debt its usually our choice.
We believe the return is worth taking on the debt.
If we owe something its because we chose to owe it.
But in this case we’re told we owe something we didn’t consciously choose.
So why do we owe love to others?
Loving others; doing good to others, is not our natural bent.
It requires the renewing of our minds by God’s Word.
The world tells us that the only people we are obligated to love are members of our family and then only if they love us back.
Our flesh tells us to love ourselves above all.
Loving others; doing good to others, is not our natural bent.
It requires the renewing of our minds by God’s Word.
WHY DO I OWE LOVE TO OTHERS?
... for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
But Why Do I Owe Love To Others?
... therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Because It’s The Right Thing To Do In God’s Sight
If you love God and want to be a living sacrifice then you want to do His will.
The law articulates what God considers right and good.
The fulfillment of His law is law.
If you want to do what is right in the sight of God, it is to love Him and others.
This is the first reason we are obligated to love others: because it’s the right thing to do in God’s sight.
for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
... therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans
therefore alove is the fulfilling of the law.
The second reason we are obligated to love other is not found in , but .
If you love God and want to be a living sacrifice then you want to do HIs will.
His will, the fulfillment of HIs law, is that we love others; that we do good to others.
What are the two greatest commands?
To love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.
And the second is that we love our neighbor as ourselves.
1 John
1 John 4:19-5:
The second reason we are obligated to love others is because its our new nature as children of God.
Because It’s Your New Nature As A Child Of God
We have new spiritual DNA if we’re truly born again.
We partake of the divine nature and at the heart of God’s nature is love.
The family resemblance in God’s family is not the color of our hair or the shape of our noses or the color of our skin.
The family resemblance of God’s children is that we love.
If you are not concerned about loving others you need to check yourself because you are not manifesting the most basic quality of a child of God.
John gives us a third reason we are obligated to love others.
But before I point it out I want to illustrate it.
Years ago, when our son was a little boy, he received a stuffed dog pillow as a gift.
That became his pillow and, at least up until a few years ago, it was still his pillow.
I may be mistaken, but I think he took it with him when he was deployed to Okinawa a few years ago with U.S. Marines.
Needless to say, that pillow has long been a science project; I wouldn’t even want to know how many gallons of drool that dog has absorbed.
In the name of hygiene and world health it would probably be best if that pillow went away.
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