LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF GODS LAW IN US
The New Covenant promise....
Ezekiel 36:25-27
25, Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26,
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27, And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Hebrews 8:10-12
10, For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord;
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: 5 and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11, And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12, for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Love fulfills God's Law.....
Matthew 22:36-40
36, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37, Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38, This is the first and great commandment. 39, And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40,
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Whosoever keeps his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. He that loves not knows not God; for God is love. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments......
Romans 13:8-10
8, Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:
for he that loves another hath fulfilled the law. 9, 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. 10, Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law
James 2:8-12
8, If ye fulfill the
royal law according to the scripture,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: 9, But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10,
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11, For he that said,
Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12, So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be
judged by the law of liberty.
1 Corinthians 13:13
And now abides faith, hope,
love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
Love in action, comes by faith and faith come by hearing and hearing comes by the Word......
1 Corinthians 13:2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Without love of God, we are nothing and err from the faith..........
James 2:14-17
14, What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
James said without love, our faith is dead.
1 John 3:17-18
But whoso hath this world's good, and sees his brother have need, and shutts up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwells the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue;
but in deed and in truth.
John said without Gods love, God does not dwell in us.
Matthew 5:43-48
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you,
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good t
o them that hate you, and
pray for them which despitefully use you,
and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 F
or if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Romans 13:10
Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 Thessalonians 3:12-13
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: 13
To the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.
We cannot hate one person, but love all people. We have to have love with all people,or there is no faith. Love is greater than faith but if there is no faith there is no love............
Revelations 2:4-5
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Galatians 5:5-6
For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision;
but faith which works by love.
Faith works by love and love is the fulfilling of the law in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.....................
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
No faith means no love for all people, even our enemies. If we hate even one person, or do not care about them according to the God's Word, then we lack faith and love...............
We are saved by grace through faith, so we have to have faith to have grace apply.
If we lack in love ,then our faith is dead, we have no grace and no salvation...........
James 2:21-24
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 See thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Abraham did the work of God,and his faith was made perfect, for a person is justified by works,and not faith alone, for love is the fulfilling of God's Law through the Spirit of Love.........
James 2:25-26
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Rahab did the work of helping the 2 Jewish men and she was justified by her works,
for love is the fulfilling of God's Law through the Spirit of Love.........
Without works of love towards God and man,then faith is dead. This is not a part time thing, but all the time. Every thought must be to the obedience of Christ. We cannot hate one person but care and love all, even our enemies...........
God is love. God hates sin, and wants us to abstain from sin by the Spirit, to be right with Him. Sin does affect our relationship with God............
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; 6 Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 Bares all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.....
2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Love is the fulfilling of God's Law in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit (
Romans 8:4). God is love and he that dwells in love dwells in God and he in him. Love is not selfish, not arrogant, and does not sin.
This includes the 7th Day Sabbath which is one of the 10 because if we break one we are guilty of breaking all. (
Exodus 20:8-11; James 2:8-12; Hebrews Chapter 4; Mark 2:27-28). Jesus says; If you love me keep my commandments (
John 14:15)
May God bless you