Romans 13:8–14 NASB95 8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For this, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. 11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. 12 The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.

More instructions for transformed living:

1.    Continually pay down the LOVE DEBT you owe everyone. 

John 15:12 NASB95 12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

You’re not doing someone a FAVOR when you show them LOVE. You’re simply giving them what you owe.

Don’t say, “I don’t LOVE MYSELF enough to love others.” The biblical witness is that we LOVE OURSELVES too much already!

Leviticus 19:18 NASB95 8 ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.

Romans 5:5 NASB95 5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

2. Put on Christ HIMSELF as your armor.

Colossians 1:12–13 NASB95 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light. 13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

1 Thessalonians 5:8 NASB95 8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.

3. Make no ACCOMODATIONS for the flesh. 

Don’t WILLINGLY put yourself in SITUATIONS that will tempt you to sin.

The motivation for being loving, putting on Christ, and making no provision for the flesh is THE SEASON. 

2 Peter 3:10–13 NASB95 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. 11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! 13 But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

Colossians 3:1–2 NASB95 1 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.

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