Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one 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 covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

This week we shift gears to consider our gospel mission to religious and non-religious people. We owe it to everyone to love them with the gospel of God's grace. In this message we focus our gospel mission to our religious kinsmen. Religion does not save. Only Jesus saves.

Grace is practical and personal. It calls us to sympathize with others in love. Sympathy takes deliberate and intentional effort. It requires us to be flexible with other people and to develop a kind of emotional dexterity.

Christ gives the same measure of saving grace to all God’s elect, but he gives different measures of serving grace to individual Christians. Both kinds of grace are unearned, unmerited, and undeserved. They are free gifts of grace that we must use for the glory of God and the good of man.

God promises that if you offer your body and mind to God in sacrificial worship, then you will discern/discover that God’s will is all about Jesus Christ for the praise of God’s glory and grace.

God wants your mind. Do not be conformed to the here and now – not in your body nor in your mind. Do not let your mind be shaped by the here and now. Let your mind be renovated by the Spirit of truth.

And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

"And those whom [God foreknew he also predestined] and those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified."