If someone is new to the faith and asks for your advice on what should be their central focus, what would you say? Alternatively, if there is another who has followed Jesus for some time and lost their way, what advice could you give to help them get back on track? In this sermon, we will see that the key is love. For through love, we, as God’s children, fulfill the law and the prophets. It is such a simplistic way in which we can follow the Lord Jesus and live in obedience to God. For in love, we will do our best to show everyone around us, even our enemies, forgiveness, mercies, love, dignity and respect. In this sermon, Paul would urge us on in this most central focus of a Christian. Instead of God giving us a list of rules to follow for the rule’s sake, we are called to love our neighbours as ourselves.

And instead of doing such things as reading our bible, spending time in prayer and living our lives in obedience to God but grudgingly, or as an act of legalism, we do them to further understand the love of God and reflect His heart all the more. What a wonderful taste of what it would be like in heaven as we live up to the love that God has called us to!