Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

IIT UBF - University Bible Fellowship at IIT

Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

Date: Jun. 15, 2015

Passage

Romans 13:8-14 (ESV)

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.

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Daily Bread

Key Verse: 13:9b

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.”

First, love is the fulfillment of the law (8-10). We are debtors to God's costly love. He wants us to pay the debt by loving one another. Jesus summarized God's second great command, "Love your neighbor as yourself." For love does no harm to a neighbor. Love is the fulfillment of the law.

Second, the day is near (11-14). Our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over. The Day is almost here for our Lord's second coming. We must urgently put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. How can we not gratify our strong desires of the flesh? We cannot. Only when we clothe ourselves with the Lord Jesus, can we behave decently, not in drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

Prayer: Lord, help me put on the armor of light, Jesus, and love others and not gratify my strong flesh desires.

One Word: Clothe yourself with Jesus

Paul Proclaims the Forgiveness of Sins

Acts 13:13-41

Key Verse: 13:38,39

Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

Today's Question

What is the reason for the third commandment?

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