Love Is What Brings Us Together Today
October 20th, 2024
Romans 13:8-10
1. Continual
Leaves us
, but
. (Vs. 8, Mat 5:42, Gal 5:22-23, Prov 22:7, Matt 5:17, James 2:8)
Matthew 5:42, “Give to the one who asks you, and don’t turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.”
Galatians 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such things.”
Proverbs 22:7, “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave to the lender.”
Matthew 5:17, “Don’t think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.”
James 2:8, “Indeed, if you fulfill the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.”
2. The Do Not’s are
When You
the
. (Vs. 9-10; John 13:34, 14:15; 1 Thess 3:12; 1 John 4:7-8)
John 13:34, “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.”
John 14:15, “If you love me, you will keep my commands.”
1 Thessalonians 3:12, “And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we do for you.”
1 John 4:7-8, “Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”