Romans chapter 13 verses 8-14 in our scripture reading together and uh this is where we’re at in our in our study. So I’ll read the even numbered verses if you’ll read together the oddnumbered verses. By the way, verse 9, I think it’s the longest verse I’ve ever heard you guys read before. So, but verse eight begins, “Owe no one anything except to love one another.
For he who loves another has fulfilled the law. for the commandments. You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, you shall not covet, and if there is any other commandment, all are summed up, saying, naming, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law. And do this knowing the time Now is a high time to awake out of sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. Wow, love that. The night is far spent. The day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness.
And let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the day, not in realry and drunkenness, not in lwdness and lust, not in strife and envy, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lust. Father, we pray right now that by the power of your Holy Spirit, your word, the word of God, the will of God, and Lord, just reading this, it is so obvious that man never would have thought this one up on his own.
So Lord, we pray that you’d emboss upon our hearts your holy truth that we might be a people walking freely, boldly, rejoicing, and knowing the truth. And that as we hear in this study both last week and this week, how much we owe one another in the area of love. We pray in Jesus name. And all God’s people said, “Amen.
” You may be seated, church family. And last week we started part one. Today part two, and we’ll go as far as we can today. And we’re looking at this message series titled I owe you. And in uh in accuracy, you owe me as brothers and sisters in Christ. Number one is the fact that as Christians, we are to be loving one another.
Listen, we may not be able to have the greatest theological explanation about this or that at any given time, but one thing is certain. We are called by God as brothers and sisters in Christ to love one another without argument, without excuse, without anything added. We’re to love one another. And then listen, what about those that are around us who don’t know Jesus? The unbelieving world, those who don’t know Christ, how how are we to deal with them? Well, quite frankly, the Bible says you’re to love them.
