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The Only Law You Need: Embracing Love, Authority, and Responsibility

This text explores the principle of love as the fundamental law Christians should embody. It emphasizes the importance of obeying authority, paying debts, and living a quiet, peaceable life by prioritizing the needs of others over personal rights and vengeance. Drawing from biblical teachings, it stresses that love is an ongoing debt we owe to one another, and that true faithfulness comes from living justly, showing mercy, and walking humbly with God. As believers, our main focus should be on loving others rather than seeking to be loved.

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The Only Law You Need: Embracing Love, Authority, and Responsibility

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  1. To God Be the Glory Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning!

  2. The only law you need • Paul’s point here is that when we faithfully obey the command to love, we will be submissive to authority, pay our bills, and generally live a quiet and peaceable life becausewe are neither demanding our rights nor taking vengeance; instead, we are giving the needs of others first priority.

  3. Reputation • Paul didn’t want the Christians to be labeled as another rebellious group like the Jews • Being a member of a society or nation has both privileges and responsibilities

  4. Instead Christians were to: • obey the laws of the land, • respect those in authority, • pay their taxes

  5. Phil 2:14-15 • Do all things without complaining and disputing… • Without fault in the midst of a crooked generation… • You shine as lights in the world

  6. The only law you need • The next principle that Paul gives us • summarizes the whole law, • it covers all the bases

  7. “owe no one anything, except…” • Not a prohibition on borrowing • But a call to pay off our debts • A ________’s work is never done • The debt of ­­­­­­­­­­­­­____ is never paid up • The only debt we should never consider paid up is the debt of love

  8. Laws and rules are necessary • The reason we obey the other laws is not just to keep out of trouble, but • so that we can serve the needs of others. • I don’t need a long list of “don’ts” when I applying the “dos” of 1 Cor 13.

  9. Our main concern • is not whether we are being loved by others • but rather that we are loving others. • We don’t keep a running record or score

  10. The only law you need • Whenwe faithfully obey the command to love, we will be submissive to authority, pay our bills, and generally live a quiet and peaceable life becausewe are neither demanding our rights nor taking vengeance; instead, we are giving the needs of others first priority.

  11. Micah 6.8 • He has shown you o man, what is good. • And what does the Lord require of you? • But to do justly, • To love mercy, • And to walk humbly with you God.

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