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“The Daytime is the Time to Love” (Romans 13:8-14)
My wife and I bought our first house when we were 27 years old. Since that time, I have been in debt, and by God’s grace, I have been paying what I owe each month on that house and now the house that I currently have.
Can you imagine if you were paying a debt that you have and that debt never got smaller? That would be crazy, wouldn’t it?
In today’s passage, Paul is going to start us off by pointing out that there is one debt that we will never pay off.
Today we’re going to look at Romans 13:8-14. Before we do, let’s go to the Lord in prayer and ask Him to speak to us.
(prayer)
Look at the first part of Romans 13:8. It says, “Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another . . .”
The Bible clearly teaches that we are to pay off what we owe to other people (we saw that just last week with taxes and tolls and such). As Christians, we should be the most dependable when it comes to our bills being paid.
However, the debt that Paul says we will continue to pay off is the calling to love other people.
In this passage, Paul is going to talk about loving and living in the daytime. Today’s sermon is entitled, “The Daytime is the Time to Love.”
There are two main actions that we must take that jump off the page at us when we study this passage. So, let’s pay attention and let’s be obedient.
First, . . .
I. We must love abundantly.
Again, look at the passage. Let’s look at Romans 13:8-10.
It says, “8 Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not covet; and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself. 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.”
Ok, let’s first acknowledge that this command to love is not a new command.
God commands His people in the Old Testament, in Leviticus 19:18, “. . . love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.”
Also, Jesus said in Matthew 19:19,“ . . . love your neighbor as yourself.”
Jesus also said in Matthew 22:37-40, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important command. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”
So, this message from Paul that we are to love others is nothing new. However, Paul does provide this idea of us being in debt to loving others. In other words, we owe love to others.
We must ask ourselves why we owe love to other people.
Well, the reason we are to love other people is because God has loved us so abundantly that it wells up inside us and just comes out of us. If we’ve experienced love from God, others should experience love from us.
So, we should love abundantly because we have been loved abundantly.
Still, that’s not the only reason that we should love abundantly.
How many of you understand that if we have been loved by God that we should seek to obey the law of God?
Well, wouldn’t it be simple if there was a way that we can understand how to fulfill the law of God simply and fully?
Well, look no further than Romans 13:8-10.
Paul says, “ . . . the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.”
Then, Paul says in verse 9, “The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not covet; and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Finally, Paul says in verse 10, “Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.”
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My wife and I bought our first house when we were 27 years old. Since that time, I have been in debt, and by God’s grace, I have been paying what I owe each month on that house and now the house that I currently have.
Can you imagine if you were paying a debt that you have and that debt never got smaller? That would be crazy, wouldn’t it?
In today’s passage, Paul is going to start us off by pointing out that there is one debt that we will never pay off.
Today we’re going to look at Romans 13:8-14. Before we do, let’s go to the Lord in prayer and ask Him to speak to us.
(prayer)
Look at the first part of Romans 13:8. It says, “Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another . . .”
The Bible clearly teaches that we are to pay off what we owe to other people (we saw that just last week with taxes and tolls and such). As Christians, we should be the most dependable when it comes to our bills being paid.
However, the debt that Paul says we will continue to pay off is the calling to love other people.
In this passage, Paul is going to talk about loving and living in the daytime. Today’s sermon is entitled, “The Daytime is the Time to Love.”
There are two main actions that we must take that jump off the page at us when we study this passage. So, let’s pay attention and let’s be obedient.
First, . . .
I. We must love abundantly.
Again, look at the passage. Let’s look at Romans 13:8-10.
It says, “8 Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not covet; and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself. 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.”
Ok, let’s first acknowledge that this command to love is not a new command.
God commands His people in the Old Testament, in Leviticus 19:18, “. . . love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.”
Also, Jesus said in Matthew 19:19,“ . . . love your neighbor as yourself.”
Jesus also said in Matthew 22:37-40, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important command. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”
So, this message from Paul that we are to love others is nothing new. However, Paul does provide this idea of us being in debt to loving others. In other words, we owe love to others.
We must ask ourselves why we owe love to other people.
Well, the reason we are to love other people is because God has loved us so abundantly that it wells up inside us and just comes out of us. If we’ve experienced love from God, others should experience love from us.
So, we should love abundantly because we have been loved abundantly.
Still, that’s not the only reason that we should love abundantly.
How many of you understand that if we have been loved by God that we should seek to obey the law of God?
Well, wouldn’t it be simple if there was a way that we can understand how to fulfill the law of God simply and fully?
Well, look no further than Romans 13:8-10.
Paul says, “ . . . the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.”
Then, Paul says in verse 9, “The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not covet; and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Finally, Paul says in verse 10, “Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.”
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