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Loving Our Neighbours (Romans 13:8-14)
Joe Kapolyo, 20 November 2016
Part of the Church Anniversary series, Sunday Morning service
Indebtedness is a problem of epidemic proportions at the individual and national levels in the UK today. Paul teaches us not to allow debts to accrue. We must be punctilious in settling our bills. But there is one debt we can never fully discharge – the debt of love to our neighbour. The more we love, the more we increase our capacity to love. In doing so we fulfil the requirements of the Law of Moses. If all of us loved our neighbours as Paul envisages, our world would be transformed out of all recognition to the glory of God and benefit of all our neighbours.
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Romans 13:8–14 (Listen)
8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 12 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
(ESV)