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 Imagine, if you can, Christ's church attempting to live faithfully and surrounded by these circumstances.

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 There's an intrusive government, and it's taxing people excessively,

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 and it spends the tax money on unjust and murderous causes.

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 Marriage comes under attack as promiscuity and sexual immorality become more and more mainstream.

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 The makeup of the society was diverse in ethnicities, nationalities, and religions,

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 but there was an anything-goes culture that threatened to cause many to abandon any sort of sense of right and wrong.

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 Political corruption, bribery, blackmail, and cover-up seemed like everyday news.

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 Economic and social classes were at war with one another.

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 The top 1% had the ability to buy influence and justice,

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 and it seemed like they lorded their power over the other 99%.

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 And the nation's lawmakers were aware of the injustice,

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 but they were either incapable or unwilling to do anything about it.

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 Sound familiar?

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 Of course, I'm talking about Rome in the first century.

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 What were you thinking of?

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 As someone famous once said,

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 history doesn't always repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

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 I like that.

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 History doesn't always repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

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 And so the words of Romans 13 are as much for this time as they were for the Christians of Rome in the first century.

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 And God's word here brings us a comfort in the circumstances that we recognize

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 that are similar to the circumstances of Rome.

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 And as it often does, it brings a challenge with that comfort as well.

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 The Lord has a way of doing these things simultaneously,

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 challenging while he comforts and comforts while he challenges.

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 He did this very thing in the middle of the greatest persecution in history,

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 the Roman persecution.

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 And the simultaneity of this comfort and challenge is summed up well

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 as Paul closes chapter 12 of the book to the church in Rome.

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 He says,

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 As if to say,

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 evil will not overcome you.

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 There's a comfort there.

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 All you have to do is overcome evil with good.

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 The challenge in the midst of the comfort.

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 To overcome evil with good.

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 So Paul goes on from there in Romans 13

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 to describe the calling of Christians

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 in the midst of this unjust human rule.

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 And he says something that's a little bit frustrating.

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 He says,

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 Just pay them.

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 Pay what's owed to them.

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 Taxes to whom taxes are owed.

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 Revenue to whom revenue is owed.

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 Respect to whom respect is owed.

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 And honor to whom honor is owed.

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 And we might say honor.

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 Honor to corrupt officials.

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 If I was a believer in the church in Rome,

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 I might be saying,

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 Paul, give me something practical.

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 Practical to stand up under injustice.

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 To do something to reverse it.

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 And Paul, you're telling me just to submit to it.

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 Even enable it, we might say.

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 But I hope we see,

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 as we examine the passage today,

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 that Paul's challenge and his comfort

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 is a much higher calling than we would have imagined.

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 Would be our duty in the present corruption of the world.

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 So let's go into the passage for,

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 the New Testament passage for this morning,

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 which is Romans chapter 13,

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 verses 8 and 10.

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 8 to 10.

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 This is the word of God.

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 He says,

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 O no one anything except to love each other.

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 For the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

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 For the commandments,

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 you shall not commit adultery,

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 you shall not murder,

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 you shall not steal,

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 you shall not covet,

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 and any other commandment are summed up in this word.

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 You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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 Love does no wrong to a neighbor.

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 Therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

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 Lord, by your Holy Spirit,

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 will you shed light on your gospel

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 through the preaching

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 and the careful hearing of the word today.

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 Amen.

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 So love is the fulfillment of the law.

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 There's the bedrock.

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 This is where Paul goes to guide Christians

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 who are frustrated with evil and injustice.

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 He doesn't give you practical advice

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 for redeeming the culture.

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 He doesn't give the people instructions

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 on how to organize politically.

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 He just moves from the first section of Romans 13,

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 which talks about honoring our civil magistrate,

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 the government officials,

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 our elected officials in our case.

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 He moves from honoring your government leaders

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 to the broader principle of loving your neighbor.

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 So let's start from verse 8

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 and see why Paul would land on this theme

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 as a response to evil.

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 He says,

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 O no one anything except to love each other.

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 And now the first thing to understand about this

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 is it's not a command forbidding any sort of debt

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 when he says,

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 O no one anything.

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 Debt's an abiding reality of this world.

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 Even in Romans 13, 7,

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 the seventh verse of the passage,

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 Paul is talking about paying debts

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 to whom they are owed,

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 specifically to the government.

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 And if you are,

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 we all pay taxes, right?

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 If you are a business owner,

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 you live in a perpetual state of debt, right?

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 You pay your taxes after they are owed quarterly or yearly.

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 You are continually owing taxes to your government.

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 If you are an employee,

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 you have taxes that you pay at the end of the year

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 and the government owes you, right?

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 There's this relationship of debt

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 that just exists perpetually among us,

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 particularly to our government.

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 So Paul's words are,

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 O no one anything.

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 But we shouldn't understand that

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 to mean a blanket prohibition of any kind of debt.

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 Matthew 5, 42 specifically,

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 where Jesus says,

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 Give to the one who begs from you

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 and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

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 And so there Jesus actually commands us

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 to be involved in debt,

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 if you think about it.

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 And he commands specifically

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 that we would lend to others compassionately.

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 I like the way Jesus puts it in Luke,

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 Luke chapter 6.

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 He says,

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 Love your enemies,

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 do good and lend,

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 expecting nothing in return,

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 and your reward will be great.

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 And you will be sons of the Most High,

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 for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

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 So there are kinds of debt,

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 debts that are monetary and otherwise,

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 that bring God glory.

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 And how do we understand

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 what kind of debt brings God glory?

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 The principle that we extract

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 from these scriptures is twofold.

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 Good debt occurs,

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 God-glorifying debt occurs,

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 when the lender lends compassionately.

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 That's the first principle.

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 And not for gain.

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 Think about how many relationships,

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 how many friends and families

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 have been broken by money.

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 Why do you suppose that is?

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 Because when most people lend,

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 they tie up their relationship

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 with their return on their investment.

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 When you lend money to another,

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 the temptation is to expect that back,

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 and when it doesn't come back,

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 your relationship is severed.

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 You've tied up your relationship

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 with the money that was owed.

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 And relationships are ruined.

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 So when we lend,

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 we ought to do it compassionately.

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 And we don't expect our reward,

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 Jesus says,

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 to be payment in kind.

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 We expect nothing in return.

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 We lend out of a heart of compassion.

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 The second principle of godly debt

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 is when the debtor shows honor

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 by discharging the debt promptly and joyfully.

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 When the lender lends compassionately

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 and expects nothing in return,

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 and then the debt is returned,

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 the debtor is now freely honoring

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 the one who gave by giving it back.

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 So the debtor's obligation

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 was not the money in the first place,

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 but the honor due

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 to a friend who showed compassion.

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 And likewise,

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 the lender's reward

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 is not a return on an investment,

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 but honor.

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 Honor for the compassion they showed.

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 The Lord offers his reward

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 to those who lend compassionately

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 and to debtors who show honor

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 by discharging their debts promptly.

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 This is the meaning of Paul's words,

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 owe nothing to anybody.

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 The Christians in Rome, like we do,

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 have ever-present debts to pay

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 to the evil and to the ungrateful.

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 And when they paid those debts honorably,

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 they reflected God's own love.

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 Because he is kind

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 to the ungrateful and to the evil.

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 So the commandment is,

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 demonstrate your love,

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 demonstrate your love to God

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 by discharging your debts quickly.

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 Taxes to whom taxes are owed.

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 Revenue to whom revenue is owed.

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 Honor to whom honor.

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 Respect to whom respect.

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 And we are to discharge all these debts,

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 except the one that can never be fully paid up.

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 And that debt is to love one another.

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 To love each other,

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 in the words of Romans 8, 14,

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 or 13, 8.

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 I'm reading from the ESV.

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 What is it to love each other,

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 in verse 8?

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 Is it the Christians we're in fellowship with,

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 here today,

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 or is it all mankind?

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 And it would be nice if we could just say

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 this applies only to the household of faith,

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 to love each other,

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 which would be a difficult enough command

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 to obey well.

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 But it's not.

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 The context is God's law.

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 And as we know,

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 God's law is not just for God's people.

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 God's law is the standard of living,

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 righteous living for all men.

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 So in the context of God's law,

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 this loving each other

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 must also be as broad as the law itself,

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 applying to all mankind.

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 It's neighbor love,

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 in the way that Jesus showed us

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 what neighbor love is,

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 in the parable of the Good Samaritan.

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 But does Paul mean to tell us

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 that this neighbor love is a kind of debt?

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 Think about that for a second.

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 If love is a debt,

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 doesn't that take away some of the freeness

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 of our expressions to love,

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 to each other?

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 Doesn't that reduce acts of love

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 to just mere transactions?

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 I'd like you to think about it this way.

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 There's a knock on your door

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 in the middle of the night,

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 and it's your close neighbor,

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 the neighbor you love,

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 asking to borrow your car

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 because her mother's having a seizure

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 and she needs to take her to the hospital.

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 What is it that you do?

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 You love your neighbor,

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 so what are you going to do?

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 You won't have to think about

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 what you're going to do.

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 You're going to help your neighbor

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 in her time of need.

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 In fact, even though it's the middle of the night

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 and all you want to do

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 is go back to bed,

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 you won't even ask

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 the basic practical questions.

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 What's wrong with your car?

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 Why don't you just call an ambulance?

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 Practical questions, right?

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 I'm not unreasonable

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 for wondering that in my mind,

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 but what am I doing in that moment?

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 If I love my neighbor,

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 I don't even ask them.

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 My neighbor has a need,

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 and that need

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 has created a debt.

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 It's created a debt

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 because I love them.

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 So I don't ask those questions

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 in that moment

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 because I absolutely know

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 the debt that I have

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 towards my neighbor

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 is to fulfill her request

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 out of neighbor love.

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 I could expand that illustration

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 from this morning.

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 My tire pressure is fatally low.

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 I give a call to John Alpeter.

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 What does John Alpeter do?

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 There's probably taxis in the area, right?

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 Just get here.

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 But I don't

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 because the neighbor love in John says,

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 I see a need.

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 I've been asked to supply it.

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 That's my duty.

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 I do it not out of a sense of duty,

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 but because the love

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 has created that duty in me.

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 So does the debt,

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 the fact that love is a debt,

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 take away from the freedom

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 involved in works of compassion?

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 No.

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 The fact that we sense

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 that this reality is a debt

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 is evidence of our compassion

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 for one another

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 because love produced in us

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 that sense of debt.

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 Jesus explained to us this

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 when he was teaching

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 his disciples to pray.

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 This is from Luke 11.

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 He said to them,

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 Which one of you who has a friend

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 will go to him at midnight

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 and say to him,

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 Friend, lend me three loaves,

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 for a friend of mine

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 has arrived on a journey

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 and I have nothing to set before him.

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 And he will answer from within,

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 Don't bother me.

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 The door is now shut

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 and my children are with me in bed.

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 I cannot get up

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 and give you anything.

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 I tell you,

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 though he will not get up

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 and give him anything

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 because he is his friend,

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 yet because of his impudence

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 he will rise and give him

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 whatever he needs.

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 And Jesus' point is to say

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 that even a mediocre friend

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 will answer the request

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 of a neighbor

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 based on an earnest plea.

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 You might call this

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 the parable of the terrible lazy friend.

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 A mediocre friend

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 you can count on to do this

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 if you are earnest

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 and plea earnestly.

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 They will sense that debt to you,

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 though their love is weak.

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 So the passage that you heard

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 in Proverbs

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 tells you the same thing.

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 I'll read it again,

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 Proverbs 3, 27 to 28.

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 Do not withhold good

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 from those to whom it is due

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 when it is in your power

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 to do it.

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 Do not say to your neighbor,

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 Go and come again.

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 Tomorrow I will give it

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 when you have it with you.

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 Because the love

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 that fulfills the law

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 is our response

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 to the debt

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 that love creates

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 towards those in need.

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 So what's this law

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 of neighbor love

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 teaching us?

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 If your neighbor

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 asks for help

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 and you have the ability,

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 you have the power,

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 you incurred a debt

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 because you love them.

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 Because, as Proverbs says,

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 you have it with you.

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 When you have it with you

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 to supply your neighbor's need

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 and your neighbor asks,

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 there's nothing else love does

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 but supplies the need.

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 not from unwillingness

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 but from love

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 that proceeds

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 from our relationships.

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 So there are three simple things

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 that create this debt

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 of love for us.

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 Three things that love creates

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 in us

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 that equate to a debt.

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 Number one,

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 it's the need.

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 If there's a need present

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 in another.

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 And number two,

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 there's the opportunity.

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 The opportunity

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 or our occasion

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 to supply that need.

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 And maybe the occasion

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 is just the occasion

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 of being asked.

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 We have the opportunity

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 because there are a need

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 and we're asked to supply it.

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 And the ability.

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 Do we have the ability

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 to supply the need?

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 The need,

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 the opportunity,

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 and the ability.

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 These create

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 the debt of love

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 between us

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 as believers,

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 between us and unbelievers.

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 It's a mark

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 of the Christian life

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 that the Lord

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 will frequently bring

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 the needs of others

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 in contact

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 with our ability

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 and our opportunity.

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 That's how the Lord works.

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 It's a debt

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 that we will never

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 fully discharge

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 and therefore

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 we can owe no one anything

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 but our debt of love

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 will always remain with us.

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 The love that fulfills

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 the law

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 is a love

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 that seeks to apply

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 our abilities

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 to others' needs

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 and it is never

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 fully completed.

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 Anytime we look

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 at God's law now,

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 we should not only look

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 at how we should obey

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 the spirit of it

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 but also what it teaches us

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 about the God we serve.

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 We know that every one

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 of God's laws

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 was given to us

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 because it expresses

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 something about

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 his many perfections,

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 about his nature

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 in other words.

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 And love for the other

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 is integral

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 to God's very being.

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 How do we know this?

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 Well, let's ask ourselves

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 the reason

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 why we ought to obey

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 this command

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 to love each other.

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 We need to obey

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 because God commanded it.

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 That's true.

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 But that's not

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 the most true.

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 The most true reason

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 I will assert

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 that we obey

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 this command

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 is because

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 God is doing it.

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 not because God

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 said it merely.

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 We obey the command

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 because God

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 does it.

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 God

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 was loving each other

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 before the world

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 was created.

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 Think about that.

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 Before we were all here,

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 before there was anything,

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 God existed

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 in a relationship

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 of love

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 to each other.

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 The Father

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 loves the Son,

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 loves the Holy Spirit,

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 and back and forth.

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 God was an eternal community,

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 is an eternal community,

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 of love

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 toward the other.

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 God loves

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 his neighbor.

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 And he did it

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 before there was creation.

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 So we love

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 our neighbor

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 not out of

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 a respect

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 for a command,

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 though that is part of it,

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 but out of a love

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 for God

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 and who he is,

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 that we would seek

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 to emulate his nature.

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 As a matter of fact,

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 God's love

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 for one another

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 is one of the things

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 that Jesus longed for

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 when he was on earth,

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 to ascend again

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 and share the glory

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 that he had

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 with the Father

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 before the world was.

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 That's from John 17, 5,

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 where Jesus says,

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 And now, Father,

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 glorify me

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 in your own presence

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 with the glory

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 that I had with you

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 before the world existed.

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 Christ,

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 in his dwelling

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 here on earth

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 in flesh,

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 longed for

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 the fellowship

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 that he had

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 with God

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 from eternity,

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 the love that he shared

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 with his Father.

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 So God loves the other

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 perfectly within himself,

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 and then

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 he brought forth

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 a creation

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 to share in that love.

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 And ultimately,

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 God met our need

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 with his ability.

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 The first time

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 the Lord told his people,

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 love your neighbor

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 as yourself,

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 that wasn't in Matthew

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 that we just read.

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 It was way back

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 in Leviticus,

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 Leviticus 19, 18.

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 God said,

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 here's the command

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 I give you,

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 you shall love your neighbor

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 as yourself.

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 And he gave them

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 this reason.

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 He said,

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 you shall love your neighbor

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 as yourself.

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 I am the Lord.

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 What's the reason given?

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 That God asked us

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 to love our neighbors

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 as ourselves?

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 Because I'm the Lord.

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 I'm the one who does it.

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 Do what I do.

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 That's the heart

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 of all of his commandments.

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 And once God said this

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 to his people,

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 the wheels were set in motion.

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 Once the people of God

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 knew that God's nature

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 was to love his neighbor,

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 we could be certain,

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 we could take it

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 to the bank

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 that God will supply

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 his people's need.

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 And what was the need

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 that God's people

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 were going to have?

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 The need of God's people

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 was that their guilt

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 kept them distant

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 and its penalty

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 was too much to bear.

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 We had a death sentence

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 and we needed escape.

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 That was our need.

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 And that's what God

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 decreed from eternity

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 that he would supply.

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 And that decree

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 is expressed

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 in Leviticus 19.

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 You shall love

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 your neighbor as yourself.

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 I am the Lord.

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 I am the one

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 who does it.

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 So it was clear

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 once God said this,

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 if we were paying attention,

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 that he will certainly

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 save his people

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 who were in need.

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 So the need was expressed.

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 We had guilt.

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 We had a death sentence

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 upon us.

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 God had an ability.

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 What's the ability of God?

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 Well, the scripture says

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 to do far more abundantly

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 than we ask or think.

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 And there was an opportunity.

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 The opportunity

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 that God alone created.

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 A decree for eternity

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 that we are given

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 in Ephesians 1.

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 I'll read this

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 starting from the first

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 of the chapter.

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 Blessed be the God

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 and Father

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 of our Lord Jesus Christ

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 who has blessed us

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 in Christ

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 with every spiritual blessing

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 in the heavenly places

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 even as he chose us in him

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 before the foundation

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 of the world

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 that we should be holy

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 and blameless before him.

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 That decree resulted

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 in a debt

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 or if you'd rather

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 an oath

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 to meet his people's need

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 through a sacrifice

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 of infinite worth.

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 Think about that.

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 The debt that God

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 creates for himself.

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 Paul goes on

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 in Ephesians 2

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 verse 15.

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 He says,

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 What did he do?

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 He broke down

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 the dividing wall

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 of hostility

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 by abolishing

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 the law of commandments

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 expressed in ordinances

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 that he might create

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 in himself

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 one new man

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 in place of the two

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 and so making peace

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 and he might reconcile

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 us both to God

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 in one body

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 through the cross

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 thereby killing

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 the hostility.

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 How can God

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 in Christ

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 abolish those commandments?

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 By living them out.

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 By living them out

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 in neighbor love

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 and giving us

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 the example

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 and creating us

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 the spirit

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 to live by it.

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 Jesus taught us

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 that our father

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 binds himself

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 to this sort of debt

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 but that debt

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 isn't to us.

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 That debt's

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 to his own nature.

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 He made a decree

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 and he must

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 by his own nature

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 complete it.

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 So we will assuredly

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 receive our help

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 in our time of need

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 because of the debt

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 incurred by his love

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 for us.

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 Specifically

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 what he did

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 is he took

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 the righteous law

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 that separated him

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 from an unrighteous people

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 and he created

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 in himself

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 the one new man

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 in the place of the two.

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 The one new man

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 in the likeness of Adam

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 and in the likeness of God

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 right?

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 Which is our likeness now.

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 We have the likeness

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 of Adam remaining

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 but what unifies us

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 to Christ

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 it is the likeness

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 of God in us

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 the Holy Spirit

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 indwelling us.

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 He created in us

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 first in Christ

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 and then in us

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 the one new man

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 the one new woman

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 in place of the two

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 and thereby

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 he made peace

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 between man and God

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 through Christ

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 on the cross.

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 In John 3.16

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 the familiar verse

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 God loved

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 each other.

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 God loved the world

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 in John 3.16

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 but what is he speaking of?

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 He's speaking of God

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 who loves

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 his neighbor

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 his neighbor

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 within the Godhead

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 and his neighbor

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 his creation.

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 That loving each other

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 is God simply telling us

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 what he does

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 so that those who love him

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 can be like him.

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 So we see the mystery

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 of this truth

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 now coming full circle.

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 One, the law exists

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 to explain to us

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 how we can love

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 our neighbor

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 and then

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 if we have loved

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 our neighbor

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 we have fulfilled

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 the law.

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 Though that fulfillment

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 resides in us

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 still

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 we remain ever bound

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 to discharge

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 the debt

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 of love to others.

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 And in a more broader

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 and a broader

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 and more perfect way

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 Christ fulfilled the law

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 once for all

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 through his life

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 and through his death.

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 And intrinsic

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 to that fulfillment

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 is the fact

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 that he sits

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 at the right hand

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 of God

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 ever binding himself

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 to meet our need

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 out of the debt

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 of love

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 that he created

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 for us.

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 Remember Jesus'

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 illustration

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 in the parable

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 of the terrible

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 lazy friend?

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 He told us

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 that story

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 to explain

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 how much more

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 we should be sure

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 that God

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 who is better

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 than a mediocre friend

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 whose love surpasses

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 the kind

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 that we find

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 in any friend

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 will assuredly

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 supply our need.

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 He finishes

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 that story

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 in Luke 11 verse 9

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 and he says

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 I start in verse 8

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 I tell you though

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 that neighbor

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 he will not get up

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 and give him anything

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 because he is his friend

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 yet because of his impudence

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 he will rise

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 and give him

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 whatever he needs

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 and I tell you

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 ask

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 and it will be given you

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 seek

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 and you will find

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 knock

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 and it will be open

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 to you.

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 In Christ

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 God perfectly

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 and completely

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 fulfilled

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 all points

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 of the law

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 which means

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 he has demonstrated

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 the epitome

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 of neighbor love

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 rescuing us

00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:35.339
 out of our deepest

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 and most desperate need

00:22:36.460 --> 00:22:37.879
 namely our own

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 death sentence.

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 So we love each other

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 not merely because

00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:42.339
 God said it

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 but because

00:22:43.139 --> 00:22:44.079
 God does it.

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 He creates in us

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 the same love

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 as well.

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 The one who loves

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 another

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 the end of verse 8

00:22:51.300 --> 00:22:52.000
 in our passage

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 has fulfilled the law.

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 Paul uses the words

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 has fulfilled

00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:56.460
 in the perfect sense

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 and he doesn't merely say

00:22:57.440 --> 00:22:58.520
 he has obeyed the law

00:22:58.520 --> 00:23:00.080
 he has fulfilled the law

00:23:00.080 --> 00:23:00.860
 the one who loves

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 his neighbor.

00:23:01.840 --> 00:23:02.640
 That has a fuller

00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:03.760
 and deeper meaning

00:23:03.760 --> 00:23:04.880
 than simply obeyed.

00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:06.280
 If I just obey the law

00:23:06.280 --> 00:23:07.160
 by loving one another

00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:08.540
 the rest of the commandments

00:23:08.540 --> 00:23:09.920
 remain to be obeyed

00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:11.300
 but if I have fulfilled the law

00:23:11.300 --> 00:23:12.740
 there is nothing lacking

00:23:12.740 --> 00:23:14.240
 if I have loved my neighbor.

00:23:15.380 --> 00:23:16.040
 John Murray

00:23:16.040 --> 00:23:17.240
 summarizes that

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 by saying this

00:23:17.860 --> 00:23:19.020
 the law has received

00:23:19.019 --> 00:23:19.960
 the full measure

00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:22.480
 of that which it requires

00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:24.299
 in loving our neighbor.

00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:26.279
 That fulfilling

00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:27.539
 means the law

00:23:27.539 --> 00:23:28.099
 has received

00:23:28.099 --> 00:23:28.839
 the full measure

00:23:28.839 --> 00:23:30.420
 of that which it requires.

00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:31.740
 It's not saying

00:23:31.740 --> 00:23:32.859
 love has replaced the law.

00:23:33.980 --> 00:23:34.619
 It's not that

00:23:34.619 --> 00:23:35.460
 it's a better thing

00:23:35.460 --> 00:23:36.000
 to love

00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:36.940
 rather than

00:23:36.940 --> 00:23:37.740
 obey the law.

00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:39.319
 It's that the law

00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:39.879
 itself

00:23:39.879 --> 00:23:41.000
 fulfills

00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:42.099
 in a way that

00:23:42.099 --> 00:23:42.440
 the law

00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:43.339
 rightly obeyed

00:23:43.339 --> 00:23:44.160
 brings the fruits

00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:45.059
 of love to others.

00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:47.660
 Again John Murray

00:23:47.660 --> 00:23:48.900
 has a great summary

00:23:48.900 --> 00:23:49.779
 and this is worth

00:23:49.779 --> 00:23:50.380
 writing down.

00:23:50.500 --> 00:23:51.240
 John Murray says

00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:53.080
 love fills to the brim

00:23:53.080 --> 00:23:54.019
 the cup

00:23:54.019 --> 00:23:55.120
 which the law

00:23:55.120 --> 00:23:56.220
 puts into our hands.

00:23:57.740 --> 00:23:58.880
 Love fills to the brim

00:23:58.880 --> 00:23:59.340
 the cup

00:23:59.340 --> 00:24:00.420
 which the law

00:24:00.420 --> 00:24:01.779
 puts into our hands.

00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:03.560
 It's as if we have a cup

00:24:03.560 --> 00:24:05.700
 and that cup's giving shape

00:24:05.700 --> 00:24:06.560
 to what we're about

00:24:06.560 --> 00:24:07.200
 to put in it

00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:09.080
 and we are

00:24:09.080 --> 00:24:10.120
 given the cup

00:24:10.120 --> 00:24:11.000
 in order to fill it

00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:12.800
 and what we fill it with

00:24:12.800 --> 00:24:13.300
 is love

00:24:13.300 --> 00:24:14.259
 at the first drop

00:24:14.259 --> 00:24:15.759
 every drop in between

00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:17.279
 down to the last drop.

00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:18.500
 There's nothing else

00:24:18.500 --> 00:24:19.519
 that fulfills the law

00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:20.720
 but the love

00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:21.460
 that we put in it

00:24:21.460 --> 00:24:23.180
 and there's no other

00:24:23.180 --> 00:24:23.640
 commandment

00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:24.559
 there's no other

00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:25.680
 principle of God's law

00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:27.140
 that fills the cup.

00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:28.779
 Those are commandments

00:24:28.779 --> 00:24:29.460
 and ordinances

00:24:29.460 --> 00:24:30.839
 they teach us

00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:31.940
 we become

00:24:31.940 --> 00:24:33.079
 schooled

00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:34.059
 by the ordinances

00:24:34.059 --> 00:24:34.839
 so that we might

00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:35.480
 love well

00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:36.379
 and love effectively.

00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:40.619
 Going on to verse 9

00:24:40.619 --> 00:24:41.299
 for the commandments

00:24:41.299 --> 00:24:42.500
 you shall not

00:24:42.500 --> 00:24:43.180
 commit adultery

00:24:43.180 --> 00:24:44.539
 you shall not murder

00:24:44.539 --> 00:24:45.480
 you shall not steal

00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:46.279
 you shall not covet

00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:47.599
 and any other commandment

00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:48.200
 are summed up

00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:49.039
 in this word

00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:50.659
 you shall love your neighbor

00:24:50.659 --> 00:24:51.379
 as yourself.

00:24:52.619 --> 00:24:53.599
 Now those who would say

00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:55.859
 you talk about God's laws

00:24:55.859 --> 00:24:56.460
 that's fine

00:24:56.460 --> 00:24:57.740
 I just want to love

00:24:57.740 --> 00:24:58.500
 as Jesus loved.

00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:00.879
 When you hear that

00:25:00.879 --> 00:25:02.659
 we understand

00:25:02.659 --> 00:25:04.019
 that that person

00:25:04.019 --> 00:25:05.119
 doesn't really understand

00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:06.339
 what the love of God is

00:25:06.339 --> 00:25:07.839
 to say that

00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:09.440
 don't tell me about the law

00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:10.720
 I just want to love

00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:11.539
 as Jesus loved.

00:25:11.659 --> 00:25:12.399
 I don't need the law

00:25:12.399 --> 00:25:13.279
 in order to love

00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:14.879
 I just love instinctively.

00:25:15.259 --> 00:25:16.180
 That person doesn't

00:25:16.180 --> 00:25:17.059
 understand what God

00:25:17.059 --> 00:25:18.799
 did in us

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 what he does in us

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 to produce neighbor love.

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 I thank God

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 for the Pharisees

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 they give us such

00:25:24.759 --> 00:25:25.500
 great examples

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 of perfect villains

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 yet they also give

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 the challenge

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 that pokes at our heart

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 in our own hypocrisy

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 and I'm going to read

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 this passage

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 from Matthew 23

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 where Jesus speaks

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 to the Pharisees

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 he says

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 woe to you

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 scribes and Pharisees

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 hypocrites

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 for you tithe

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 mint and dill

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 and cumin

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 and have neglected

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 the weightier matters

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 of the law

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 justice and mercy

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 and faithfulness

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 these you ought to have done

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 without neglecting the others

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 you blind guides

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 straining out a nad

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 and swallowing a camel

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 woe to you

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 scribes and Pharisees

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 hypocrites

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 for you clean the outside

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 of the cup

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 and the plate

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 but inside

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 they're full of greed

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 and self-indulgence

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 you blind Pharisee

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 first clean the inside

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 of the cup

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 and the plate

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 that the outside

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 may also be clean

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 woe to you

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 scribes and Pharisees

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 hypocrites

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 for you are like

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 whitewashed tombs

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 which outwardly appear beautiful

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 but within are full

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 of dead people's bones

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 and all uncleanness

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 so also you outwardly

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 appear righteous

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 to others

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 but within

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 you're full of hypocrisy

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 and lawlessness

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 right

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 now to call a Pharisee

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 a hypocrite

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 was one thing

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 but to call a Pharisee

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 lawless

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 that was beyond the pale

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 the Pharisees

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 at least by their own lips

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 loved the law

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 they loved God's law

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 they loved it so much

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 that they expanded on it

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 and they taught the people

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 to do things beyond

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 God's law

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 but the trouble

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 with the Pharisees

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 was not that they practiced

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 the law too minutely

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 and knew it too well

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 the problem with the Pharisees

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 is they didn't understand

00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:50.960
 the law at all

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 they appeared righteous

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 to others

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 but they were really full

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 of unlawlessness

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 of lawlessness

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 they would strain out

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 a gnat

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 the mint

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 the dill

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 the cumin

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 things that Jesus said

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 yes do those

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 but they swallowed a camel

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 because works without

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 works of the law

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 without neighbor love

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 are empty deeds

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 this is what the person

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 is reacting to

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 when they say

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 you have the law

00:27:15.099 --> 00:27:15.779
 talk about the law

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 that's fine

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 I don't

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 I love

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 right

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 that's the hypocrisy

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 they're reacting to

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 they see that works

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 of the law

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 without love

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 are just empty deeds

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 like Paul says

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 in 1 Corinthians

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 if I give away

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 all I have

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 and I deliver up

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 my body to be burned

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 but I have not love

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 I gain nothing

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 but on the other hand

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 to love without

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 the law

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 is just impotent

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 sentimentality

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 John

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 the apostle John

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 is a great person

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 to go to

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 who by the spirit

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 answers

00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:49.620
 what true love is

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 and he gives us

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 it's all the way

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 through 1 John

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 I'm going to read

00:27:52.940 --> 00:27:54.039
 1 John chapter 5

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 this is John

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 the apostle

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 telling us

00:27:56.120 --> 00:27:57.220
 what love is

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 by this we know

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 that we love

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 the children of God

00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:01.259
 when we love

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 and obey

00:28:01.740 --> 00:28:03.680
 when we love God

00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:04.660
 and obey his commandments

00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:06.080
 verse 3

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 for this is

00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:07.680
 the love of God

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 that we keep

00:28:08.980 --> 00:28:09.800
 his commandments

00:28:09.800 --> 00:28:11.600
 so there's no room

00:28:11.600 --> 00:28:11.900
 in scripture

00:28:11.900 --> 00:28:12.500
 for us to say

00:28:12.500 --> 00:28:13.480
 I just want to love

00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:13.960
 my neighbor

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 I don't need

00:28:15.220 --> 00:28:15.680
 to be taught

00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:16.279
 by the law

00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:17.200
 don't give me law

00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:17.840
 give me love

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 because the law

00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:19.940
 is the shape

00:28:19.940 --> 00:28:21.019
 right

00:28:21.019 --> 00:28:21.580
 John Murray's

00:28:21.580 --> 00:28:22.440
 example of the cup

00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:23.800
 the law is the shape

00:28:23.800 --> 00:28:24.720
 that love fills

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 you don't understand

00:28:26.580 --> 00:28:27.140
 love

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 if you haven't been

00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:28.920
 taught

00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:30.240
 by God's law

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 because as

00:28:33.120 --> 00:28:34.240
 Romans 13 says

00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:35.440
 and the ten commandments

00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:35.859
 show

00:28:35.859 --> 00:28:37.559
 love does no wrong

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 to a neighbor

00:28:38.059 --> 00:28:39.700
 therefore love

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 is the fulfilling

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 or the fulfillment

00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:43.019
 of the law

00:28:43.019 --> 00:28:45.400
 the law is the shape

00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:45.740
 of love

00:28:45.740 --> 00:28:46.680
 we work toward each other

00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:47.299
 it's the cup

00:28:47.299 --> 00:28:48.299
 that we fill

00:28:48.299 --> 00:28:49.599
 with works of love

00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:51.519
 without the law

00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:52.579
 without God's law

00:28:52.579 --> 00:28:53.099
 our works

00:28:53.099 --> 00:28:54.180
 are formless

00:28:54.180 --> 00:28:55.259
 our love is formless

00:28:55.259 --> 00:28:56.359
 it has no place

00:28:56.359 --> 00:28:56.880
 to abide

00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:58.480
 and without love

00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:00.099
 we just hold on

00:29:00.099 --> 00:29:00.759
 to an empty cup

00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:02.180
 we have a law

00:29:02.180 --> 00:29:02.700
 that's empty

00:29:02.700 --> 00:29:04.220
 and we're hopeless

00:29:04.220 --> 00:29:05.279
 to truly obey it

00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:06.500
 we're Pharisees

00:29:06.500 --> 00:29:08.440
 we have ordinances

00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:09.859
 but we don't have

00:29:09.859 --> 00:29:10.359
 the law

00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:11.879
 what God

00:29:11.879 --> 00:29:13.680
 Christ abolished

00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:14.339
 was the law

00:29:14.339 --> 00:29:14.799
 of commandments

00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:15.480
 and ordinances

00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:16.900
 the law remained

00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:18.420
 but without love

00:29:18.420 --> 00:29:19.799
 it is merely ordinances

00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:21.759
 without love

00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:22.240
 we hold on

00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:22.559
 to a law

00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:23.079
 that's empty

00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:25.140
 and then when you

00:29:25.140 --> 00:29:25.500
 look around

00:29:25.500 --> 00:29:25.920
 your neighborhoods

00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:26.879
 or you look at CNN

00:29:26.879 --> 00:29:28.299
 and you can't help

00:29:28.299 --> 00:29:28.940
 but see evil

00:29:28.940 --> 00:29:29.659
 and corruption

00:29:29.659 --> 00:29:30.799
 and ingratitude

00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:32.200
 we remember

00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:33.339
 that our Lord's way

00:29:33.339 --> 00:29:34.119
 is to be kind

00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:35.039
 to the ungrateful

00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:35.919
 and to the evil

00:29:35.919 --> 00:29:38.899
 because we were also

00:29:38.899 --> 00:29:39.480
 ungrateful

00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:41.079
 and hostile toward God

00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:43.200
 and what did Christ do

00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:44.079
 with our hostility

00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:45.299
 with our ingratitude

00:29:45.299 --> 00:29:46.480
 he killed it

00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:47.779
 Ephesians 2 16

00:29:47.779 --> 00:29:49.379
 he killed the hostility

00:29:49.379 --> 00:29:50.019
 between us

00:29:50.019 --> 00:29:51.279
 it died with Christ

00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:52.279
 on the cross

00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:54.659
 he gave us a grace

00:29:54.659 --> 00:29:55.899
 that loves the other

00:29:55.899 --> 00:29:57.419
 because he's been loving

00:29:57.420 --> 00:29:58.320
 the other

00:29:58.320 --> 00:29:58.920
 from eternity

00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:01.460
 when we love the other

00:30:01.460 --> 00:30:02.860
 we're not just

00:30:02.860 --> 00:30:03.840
 obeying God's law

00:30:03.840 --> 00:30:05.900
 we're fulfilling it

00:30:05.900 --> 00:30:07.300
 there's nothing else

00:30:07.300 --> 00:30:08.380
 that the law requires

00:30:08.380 --> 00:30:10.200
 because we're not just

00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:11.220
 doing what God says

00:30:11.220 --> 00:30:13.200
 we're being who God is

00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:14.519
 we're being taught

00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:15.340
 by God's nature

00:30:15.340 --> 00:30:18.560
 this hymn we sang

00:30:18.560 --> 00:30:20.300
 struck me this morning

00:30:20.300 --> 00:30:20.940
 love divine

00:30:20.940 --> 00:30:21.960
 all love excelling

00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:23.120
 joy of heaven

00:30:23.120 --> 00:30:24.100
 to earth come down

00:30:24.100 --> 00:30:25.259
 fix in us

00:30:25.259 --> 00:30:26.100
 thy humble dwelling

00:30:26.099 --> 00:30:27.279
 all thy faithful

00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:28.079
 mercies crown

00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:29.740
 Jesus thou art

00:30:29.740 --> 00:30:30.519
 all compassion

00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:32.459
 pure unbounded love

00:30:32.459 --> 00:30:33.059
 thou art

00:30:33.059 --> 00:30:35.279
 visit us with thy salvation

00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:36.879
 enter every

00:30:36.879 --> 00:30:37.980
 trembling heart

00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:39.919
 let's pray

00:30:39.919 --> 00:30:43.679
 father our need today

00:30:43.679 --> 00:30:44.279
 our need today

00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:45.000
 is to be filled

00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:46.500
 so that we can fulfill

00:30:46.500 --> 00:30:48.779
 we have no way

00:30:48.779 --> 00:30:49.759
 to fulfill your commands

00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:50.899
 but by what you work

00:30:50.899 --> 00:30:51.459
 in us

00:30:51.459 --> 00:30:54.099
 may the Holy Spirit

00:30:54.099 --> 00:30:55.240
 fill us with compassion

00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:55.839
 for each other

00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:57.160
 that we can fill up

00:30:57.160 --> 00:30:58.319
 the cup you gave us

00:30:58.319 --> 00:30:59.400
 and pour it out

00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:00.500
 on the needs around us

00:31:00.500 --> 00:31:02.420
 Lord we give thanks

00:31:02.420 --> 00:31:03.660
 for taking such an unlovable

00:31:03.660 --> 00:31:04.500
 we give you thanks

00:31:04.500 --> 00:31:05.579
 for taking such an unlovable

00:31:05.579 --> 00:31:06.599
 people pouring out

00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:07.339
 love upon us

00:31:07.339 --> 00:31:08.319
 and all the while

00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:09.140
 making us instruments

00:31:09.140 --> 00:31:10.120
 to carry that love

00:31:10.120 --> 00:31:10.880
 to each other

00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:12.900
 plant this word deep in us

00:31:12.900 --> 00:31:13.720
 as we use it

00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:14.460
 to bring you glory

00:31:14.460 --> 00:31:16.099
 we pray it in Christ's name

00:31:16.099 --> 00:31:17.180
 Amen

00:31:17.180 --> 00:31:18.860
 God bless Ane

00:31:18.860 --> 00:31:19.720
 Jesus iso

00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:20.279
 and this word

00:31:20.279 --> 00:31:20.840
 bring you glory

00:31:20.840 --> 00:31:21.700
 from his heart

00:31:21.700 --> 00:31:22.380
 for whoever

00:31:22.380 --> 00:31:22.600
 are you

00:31:22.600 --> 00:31:24.500
 and this word

00:31:24.500 --> 00:31:24.980
 is in your name

00:31:24.980 --> 00:31:25.019
 again

00:31:25.019 --> 00:31:25.519
 for whoever

00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:26.720
 is in your name