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Is It Sin If It Is Love? Be careful now. This is really a loaded question, but also profound in its implications. Many of you have favorite scriptures. Its been a long time for me to pick one out that really resonates with me. Besides John 3:16, and maybe a few other scriptures I have narrowed it down to Romans 13:10. The apostle Paul writes to the Christians in the city of Rome that "love does no wrong to another, so love fulfills the law." On Big Church we have so many people who use the law to judge, condemn, demean, criticise, and in general try to make others feel guilty. Anyone who has faith in Jesus and accepted Him is in the realm of love now, not the realm of law. Love justifies anything. Why? Because love does no wrong to another person. This behavior based on love fulfills any law and there is no sin. Could love justify living together? Could love justify same sex marriage? Could love justify war? Would love justify mercy killing? Would love justify lying to save a life? It really depends on the intention. For some people an action would not be love but self centered. For others love is their motivation. Its an individual action. It may or may not involve other people, perhaps even many people. The point is that our purpose on earth now is simply love. This fulfills the law. Condemning others is not justified because love justifies anything that is love. If it is not a wrong to another, it is right, it is justified, it is love. The Christian life is profoundly simple. Live by love and ignore people who condemn you because you don't follow their rules, their laws, their ways. In love we are free to grow and grow and more and more do good to others, however it is, whatever it is, as long as it does not wrong another. |
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Amen Richard.
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Amen Richard.
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Agreed. Not the world's love but the desire and practise of what is in the best interest of another person is Jesus love behavior. WE are not perfect in our love. The emphasis now is do good to another. Jesus has taken care of sin, which we know by the law. Love is not a license to sin or do wrong to a neighbor. Love is now the freedom and license to do good. The law burdened us and kept us under a load to heavy to carry. The devil tries daily to burden us again with accusations, but we are free now to ignore him and receive daily mercy and power to do good. Every time the devil accuses us and pushes our buttons we grow stronger and stronger. Scripture says our resistance makes him flee. More grace is then added to us. The law is harsh, heavy, and crushing. It is good in that it defines sin very well. Paul the Apostle said we can not play both ends against the middle. We can not be law keepers and grace recipients at the same time, in the same breath. It is law or grace. WE have to choose. Now which is it going to be, the condemnation of law, or the freedom of grace? Those of us who have made the choice of the freedom of grace are free now to make our focus on love or doing good to another. The law can now be a light on what is good, but no longer a burden to carry. Jesus carries the burdens for us. WE can work on doing what is good to another as we are free from the burden of our imperfections. I don't know about everyone else on BC, but I know I am free from sin. That's a fact. Faith and grace make it so.
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I try to open up subjects for more discussion. It takes several comments and perhaps more to cover a subject enough to move on to the next one. The initial post is only a starter. Thanks for your patience and additions. I blieve that exploring these many subjects helps us all to grow.
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