The Believer's Debt To Society Is Love And Mercy!
#1. Love God and
neighbor
Matthew
22:36Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”37 Jesus
said to him, “‘You
shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and
with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the
second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law
and the Prophets.”
These
two commands are needed to properly govern our every day lives. Love for God, self and
neighbor. If such love is demonstrated, all the law and prophets are
fulfilled. If we are governed by love,
there is no room for hate. If we are
governed by love, we will demand justice for ourselves and others.
These two commandments define God, our walk
with Him and our relationship with each other.
#2. He loved us
first
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
John 14:15 If you love me, obey my commandments.
Loving
God and people is not convenient, it is sacrificial!
Loving God and people requires
obedience! We can love God, because He first loved us. The ability to love is available to every
person.
Loving is not a feeling or an
emotion. Love is an attribute of God's mercy! If love is determined by a feeling or an
emotional, it is conditional. God's love is unconditional!
To receive love
requires submission and obedience to the author of love. Loving is a choice we make. Once we submit
and obey the author of love, all of the attributes of love are available to us.
Love changes us from the inside to the outside.
We are not good enough to
remain the same!
We must pay our debt to society - LOVE THEM!
#3. Romans 13:8 Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he
that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Once
we have been influenced and changed by the love of God, it is our
responsibility to share the love experience with others. Jesus Christ is the love experience! The
world is hungry for love!
A lack of
love is space for hate! We are told: owe no man anything! Fill the void in another person's life!
We
don't know how to love each other until we have experienced the love of Jesus
Christ! He loved us first and then gave
us the ability to love Him, ourselves and others.
The world is in chaos because
we have failed to pay our debt to society. The love of Christ is the debt we
owe to society. Until this debt is paid
there will always be chaos!
We must pay
this debt of love to everyone in our circle of influence. That is when change will come, one by one!
The proof of love
is not feelings or emotions, it's mercy toward our neighbors.
Our neighbor may live in another state or country! Pray for them, speak up for them, demand
justice for them!
#4. Luke 10:29 But he, willing to justify himself, said
unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? 30 And Jesus answering
said, A certain man went down
from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his
raiment, and wounded him, and
departed, leaving him half
dead. 31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that
way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 And
likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other
side. 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where
he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, 34 and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set
him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 And
on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him,
Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will
repay thee. 36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was
neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? 37 And he said,
He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou
likewise.
The God kind of love lifts up, binds wounds, makes sacrificie and demand justice and is neighborly!
Witness
Christ to someone. Demand justice for
yourself and others! Speak up on behalf
of someone else. Go, be merciful toward
someone! Love is not something you just talk about. Love demands to be demonstrated!
Love is something we do!
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