First Free Church Sermon Notes: November 13, 2011

Because love fulfills the law (13.8)
- Being a debtor to love is the essence of all of Paul's instruction
- According to Jesus, all of the law and the prophets hang on the following (Mt. 22.40):
- - Love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul and mind (Mt. 22.37)
  - Love your neighbor as yourself (Mt. 22.39)
- Jesus in answering this question, quotes the Torah (Lev. 19.18)
- This reason illustrates continuity; what Paul is exhorting is what has always been required: to Love one another (II Jn. 1.5)
Because day - the kingdom - has dawned
- Night is nearly over; day is almost here (13.12)
- We should therefore throw off the deeds of darkness (13.12)
Because that is the command and example of our King (13.14)
- In Jesus' Kingdom, all citizens are by definition His debtors (Mt. 18.23-26)
- In return, Jesus commands that we follow His own example (Mt. 18.33)

Take Home Idea: If we would be citizens of God's Kingdom, people of the King, we must live as debtors to love.

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A Thought From God's Word:

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. [Philippians 3:10-14]