GRACE CREATES LOVING PEOPLE
Romans 13.8-10
Romans: The People Grace Creates – Part 6 of 11
Romans 1.16 “… the gospel … is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes …” (esv)
Romans 12.9 “Let love be genuine.” (esv)
Romans 5.5 “… God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” (esv)
GOD WANTS US TO BE LOVING PEOPLE …
WHO FEEL Compelled By Love …
v. 8 “Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another …” (csb)
1 Corinthians 13.2–3 “… if I have all faith … but have not love, I am nothing … but have not love, I gain nothing.” (esv)
OF THE Risen LawKeeper
v. 8b “… the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.” (esv)
v. 10 “… love is the fulfilling of the law.” (esv)
Romans 7.4 “Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.” (esv)
Galatians 3.13 “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree …’” (esv)