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Last week, we read that we as followers of Christ are to live by the simple call to love our neighbor as one’s self.
Paul says that the law is fulfilled in doing this.
He is quoting from Leviticus 19:18 that says, “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”
Our life is not to be one that seeks out the hurt and pain of others but a life that builds others up especially those who are in the community of faith.
When we get to chapter 6, Paul has outlined for us the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit.
On the heels of that discussion, he gives us the way we are to treat those who may fall into sin and the works of the flesh as believers.
Through those relationships, we are to fulfill the law of Christ, which is directly related to loving our neighbor as ourselves.
So the question becomes, “how do we love our neighbors?”
This is something that has come up throughout the past two years.
We have heard people say things like to love our neighbor means that we get a vaccination or wear a mask.
Maybe we have heard someone make reference to loving our neighbor through some kind of racial justice initiative or by being an “ally.”
No matter where you may be personally on these issues, Paul’s use of this term and his vantage point of what it means to love our neighbor is not the things that the world has tried to assign to it.
Instead, we are dealing with something more profound and eternal.
Today, we are going to explore what the law of Christ is and what it really means to love our neighbor as ourselves.
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Under the law of Christ, we bear one another’s burdens.
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1-5)
2. Under the law of Christ, we do good to everyone.
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Under the law of Christ, we boast in nothing but the cross.
(vs.
11-16)
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