Living Out Love: The Fulfillment of God's Law

"Owe no man anything but to love one another for he that loveth another has fulfill the 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 namely Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself love worketh no ill to his neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." [00:00:23]

"Now what he's saying you see is this discharge all your debts to the utmost of your capacity and power but there is one respect in which you'll never be able to do so fully what's that and that is in your love for other people this is a Perpetual obligation this is a perpetual debt so I agree with those who would suggest that this should be translated oh no man anything except to love one another except to love one another." [00:25:04]

"Now what is concerned here with them is that we should be clear in our understanding of the nature of God's law and in doing this the Apostle is simply doing what our blessed Lord and Savior did himself in The Sermon on the Mount the section of The Sermon on the Mount which is to be found in the fifth chapter of Matthew's gospel beginning about verse 17 and going right away through to the end is exactly the very thing that the Apostle is stating in a summary form and manner here." [00:30:18]

"Love is something orderly love is lawful legal love is the fulfilling of the law these two things he says are indissolubly bound together and we must never never be guilty of divorcing them or separating them from one another so we need the detailed injunctions as well as the general reminder about the character of loving we need the details in order to check us in order to remind us and in order to help us it is a part of God's love to us to tell us what to do in detail." [00:39:24]

"It was just at this point that the Pharisees had gone so hopelessly astray in the time when our blessed Lord was here on Earth that was exactly the error of the Pharisees they were the people who were interested in law they were the teachers of the law instructors in the law they were always talking about the law they were proud of the law they gloried in the fact that they as a people and as a nation were the only people who received God's law but they'd completely misunderstood the whole point of the law." [00:41:49]

"Now I remember years ago in dealing with that 16th verse that 14th verse of the first chapter putting it I think like this to you there was a famous preacher who lived and flourished oh roughly 130 years ago in Brighton FW Robertson of Brighton who was tended to control people's exposition of Romans 1:14 he preached a famous sermon on this and he put it like this that what the Apostle meant was he said well now I have gained a great deal from Greek culture I'm very indebted to Greek culture." [00:16:56]

"Now then that I think is essential as an exposition here because it is the only Exposition that leads on to the next statement owe no men anything but to love one another now what he's saying you see is this discharge all your debts to the utmost of your capacity and power but there is one respect in which you'll never be able to do so fully what's that and that is in your love for other people this is a Perpetual obligation this is a perpetual debt." [00:25:04]

"Now what is concerned here with them is that we should be clear in our understanding of the nature of God's law and in doing this the Apostle is simply doing what our blessed Lord and Savior did himself in The Sermon on the Mount the section of The Sermon on the Mount which is to be found in the fifth chapter of Matthew's gospel beginning about verse 17 and going right away through to the end is exactly the very thing that the Apostle is stating in a summary form and manner here." [00:30:18]

"Love is something orderly love is lawful legal love is the fulfilling of the law these two things he says are indissolubly bound together and we must never never be guilty of divorcing them or separating them from one another so we need the detailed injunctions as well as the general reminder about the character of loving we need the details in order to check us in order to remind us and in order to help us it is a part of God's love to us to tell us what to do in detail." [00:39:24]

"It was just at this point that the Pharisees had gone so hopelessly astray in the time when our blessed Lord was here on Earth that was exactly the error of the Pharisees they were the people who were interested in law they were the teachers of the law instructors in the law they were always talking about the law they were proud of the law they gloried in the fact that they as a people and as a nation were the only people who received God's law but they'd completely misunderstood the whole point of the law." [00:41:49]

"Now I remember years ago in dealing with that 16th verse that 14th verse of the first chapter putting it I think like this to you there was a famous preacher who lived and flourished oh roughly 130 years ago in Brighton FW Robertson of Brighton who was tended to control people's exposition of Romans 1:14 he preached a famous sermon on this and he put it like this that what the Apostle meant was he said well now I have gained a great deal from Greek culture I'm very indebted to Greek culture." [00:16:56]

"Now then that I think is essential as an exposition here because it is the only Exposition that leads on to the next statement owe no men anything but to love one another now what he's saying you see is this discharge all your debts to the utmost of your capacity and power but there is one respect in which you'll never be able to do so fully what's that and that is in your love for other people this is a Perpetual obligation this is a perpetual debt." [00:25:04]