The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
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dear friends, and teaching that is vital for our personal growth and sanctification. It is the Word of the Lord for His people. Please be seated. Let us pray. Oh, Lord, how we love Your law, for Your Word is law. It is the light that guides our feet and shines upon our pathway. We thank You that Your law comes to us out of the infinite depth of Your knowledge and wisdom and reflects not only the perfection of Your character, but Your gracious, condescending love for us for which law is given for our blessing and edification. Help us to understand the context of this law in Your love as the Apostle sets it forth herein. For we ask it in the name of Jesus. Amen. We looked briefly at the beginning of verse 9 last week, O no one anything except to love one another, and I made reference to all of the attempts that have been made to use this as the classic proof text that would prohibit Christians from ever enter into any kind of indebtedness, and I hope we were able to demonstrate last week that that's not the point of this text. But the text does make mention of an obligation, of something that we do owe, and a debt that can never be remitted fully in this world. We can pay our debts to the bank, we can pay our debt to the store, we can pay our debt to the credit card company, But our debt in this world to love our neighbor is never discharged until we cross into heaven. …
This is the Word of God for God's people. Please be seated. Let us pray. Again, O Lord, we would be instructed not by human wisdom, but by that revelation that comes to us from Your omniscience. And this evening, as we direct our attention once again to this sacred text, we ask that You would help us understand it correctly and embrace it with our minds and with our hearts. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. We've seen in the beginning of chapter 13 Paul's critical teaching of the role of civil government, which is instituted by God, and here we are told that the rulers, the secular rulers of this world, are God's ministers. And in our last time together, I tried to draw applications of this text to questions of civil obedience as well as questions of capital punishment and theories of just warfare inasmuch as this is the classical locus of the text by which God gives to the civil magistrate the power of the sword. And having looked at that section, we are warned that the civil magistrate does not bear that sword in vain, and he is not to be an enemy to good works but to evil, and that we ought to have a certain healthy fear of civil authority. And again, not simply out of fear of punishment, but the apostle now forges ahead here, therefore you should be subject not only because of wrath, not because you simply are afraid of the terror of the law enforcement …
Faith alone it is which effectually answers this end, as we learn from daily experience. For so long as we walk by faith, not by sight, we go swiftly on in the way of holiness. While we steadily look, not at the things which are seen, but at those which are not seen, we are more and more crucified to the world and the world crucified to us. Let but the eye of the soul be constantly fixed, not on the things which are temporal, but on those which are eternal, and our affections are more and more loosened from earth, and fixed on things above. So that faith, in general, is the most direct and effectual means of promoting all righteousness and true holiness; of establishing the holy and spiritual law in the hearts of them that believe. 3. And by faith, taken in its more particular meaning, for a confidence in a pardoning God, we establish his law in our own hearts in a still more effectual manner. For there is no motive which so powerfully inclines us to love God, as the sense of the love of God in Christ. Nothing enables us like a piercing conviction of this to give our hearts to him who was given for us. And from this principle of grateful love to God arises love to our brother also. Neither can we avoid loving our neighbour, if we truly believe the love wherewith God hath loved us. Now this love to man, grounded on faith and love to God, “worketh no ill to” our “neighbour.” Consequently, it is, as the Apostle observes,“the fulfilling of the” whole negative “law.” “For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not bear false witness; Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Neither is love content with barely working no evil to our neighbour. It continually incites us to do good, as we have time and opportunity; to do good, in every possible kind, and in every possible degree, to all men. It is therefore, the fulfilling of the positive, likewise, as well as of the negative, law of God. …