Love of neighbor

Tuesday, 15 July 2008 11:33

amor al projimo Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no harm to its neighbor so that compliance with the law is love. Romans 13:9,10

The parable of the Good Samaritan is a dear and familiar story that talks about how to treat your neighbor. According to the usual interpretation, the man who was beaten and robbed the neighbor and the neighbor is defined as any person who needs help.

Fund Bible: Leviticus 19:13,18,33,34, Matthew 22:37-40, Romans 1:14; 13:8-10, Galatians 6:9-10

Central Truth: God's love enables us to love our neighbor.

Text aureus: 'Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no harm to its neighbor so that compliance with the law is love. Romans 13:9,10

Outline

I. The mandate to love others

A. Treating your neighbor as yourself

B. Two great commandments you.

II Compassion for all

A. Paying a debt

B. Doing good

III. Showing love

A. Love and the law

B. The summary of all the commandments

Aim

Learn what it means to love our neighbor, and show that love to every person through good works.

Introduction

But it seems that Jesus placed more emphasis on the fact that the neighbor was the one who helped the victim. After telling the parable Jesus asks the lawyer skeptical: "Who, then, these three do you think was neighbor unto him that fell among thieves?" (Luke 10:36). The neighbor is the one who has compassion for the person in need and help you. So the question is: "Are we good neighbors or not?"

Bible Commentary

I. The mandate to love others Leviticus (19:13,18,33,34 Matthew 22:37-40)

A. Treating your neighbor as yourself

The passage in Matthew makes us understand that even if the strict rules of the law stood, the fundamental principle of life for the follower of God, was divine love. The law was not written for the just but for the "lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for unholy and profane ..." (1 Timothy 1:9).

Try abroad "as a natural you" Moses told the Israelites. Such warrant was too much for an Israelite, who knew his own people was chosen by God. The Gentiles were pagans around them. The warrant shows that God never intended to exclude non-Jews to fellowship with Him was the Jews who thought they were the only ones who receive God's mercy. Therefore, they believed that they alone were worthy of receiving special privileges.

Question: Why were the Israelites to treat foreigners (Gentiles) better than foreigners had treated them?

The Israelites were to treat foreigners well because (1) the Israelites were strangers in Egypt and knew what they were missing out, and (2) the Lord was his God. Since Jehovah is a God of love and compassion, people should show the same attributes. The commandment to love others is still in force today.

If the Christian love as God wants and with the fullness of the Holy Spirit to love, of course, keep the commandments of God and limitations regarding the treatment of others. Anyone who truly loves his neighbor does not oppress or deceive him, will not pay evil for evil and do not hold it against him.

B. Two great commandments

These commandments to love God and love of neighbor are inseparable. Love for others depends on our love for God and our love for God is shown by our love for others (1 John 4:20 to 5:2). However, the two commands are different.

Loving God, as described in the New Testament, it's not normal for humans. The nature with which we were born makes us enemies of God (Luke 19:11-14, John 3:20, Romans 5:10, Colossians 1:21). Loving God as Jesus commanded in Matthew 22:37 (Deuteronomy 6:4,5) should be man's response to the love God has for him. God loves the whole person: heart, soul and mind. Therefore, it is expected that the man loves God with his whole being.

The love for others depends upon the love that God showed to us beforehand. `Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another" (1 John 4:11). Christian love for others reflects the love of God for us. The Holy Spirit is what makes the love of God for us turns into love for others (Galatians 5:22).

Question: Do you think God expects us to love our neighbors even though it is difficult to love them? If so, how do we do?

Romans 5:5 shows us another way to demonstrate God's love for others through us. God does not expect to love others without their help. The love that we love others is truly God's love that overflows in our hearts to infect others. It is the love of God seen through us. Through prayer, God gives us love for others as we love them is impossible without your help.

II. Compassion for all Romans 1:14, Galatians 6:9,10

A. Paying a debt

Question: What did Paul mean in Romans 1:14 when he said he was a debtor? Do we owe as Paul?

Just as love of God is received to prove to others, so the commission to preach the gospel to every creature was to Paul a debt owed to every man, woman and child. It did not matter what nationality or culture would be his listeners.

The "wise" and "wise" are another way of saying "Greeks" and "Greeks". Paul wanted everyone, regardless of their nationality or education, to hear the Word of God. Paul was writing to the Greeks, whose civilization had given the world many intellectual and artistic achievements. At the same time, wanted to inform you that he also had a duty to take the gospel to other peoples, "to non-Greeks. Although "non-Greeks" is defined as uncivilized races, Paul used the term to mean, in addition to other Greeks. Paul could have included the "haves" and "poor" to "strong" and "weak", the "young" and "elderly." Either way it is classified, Paul had the opportunity to hear the gospel message.

Such is the missionary spirit that still beats in the hearts of believers dedicated. Whether in person with the message, and providing finance for others to leave, the obligation is still present. Just as Paul had instructed him to preach the gospel to other peoples, we have been charged us the same task. We owe the Gospel to the lost. Indeed, it is a debt to be paid.

B. Doing good

Doing good can be a stressful job. It's easy to become discouraged, lose interest in our work, or even 'trust up. The incentive to do good is essential.

In Galatians 6:9, Paul provided the incentive in their choice of comparisons. Doing good is similar to that crop in the field. We will not see the results of the seed immediately, but "in time we shall reap if we faint not."

If the sower is tired of pulling the seed and planting only half the field, will reap only half. If we want a full crop of good works, we must grow and be patient like the sower who expected the "precious fruit of the earth" (James 5:7). Many Christians are like children: they want to plant the seed and then harvest it the same day.

Question: What will our harvest if we do not grow tired of good works?

Paul did not specify what crop would receive the believer if faithfully followed sowing good deeds. But we know that good works, made as to the Lord, will produce a good crop. They can bring comfort and relief to people in need. They can cause a sinner to accept Christ as their Savior, it can be a crop that brings news of great joy to heaven and harvesting. Doing good deeds can stop the moral decay of society, and make our communities better places to live (1 Timothy 2:1-4). In the end, that heaven will reward the good works done by the faithful service they did on earth.

The good that we make everyone satisfied through the Holy Spirit in us. Only by having a vibrant relationship with God our lives will bear much fruit that will remain for eternity.

The exhortation to do good is more specific at the end of Galatians 6:10: "So, as we have opportunity, do good to all men, especially those in the household of faith." While it is our duty to do good to all, we are obliged to do good and bless the children of God and our brothers in faith. The phrase, "all" indicates that Christian love has no limitations. The mention of "the household of faith" serves to reiterate that the priority of Christian love is to fulfill needs of other believers.

It is unfortunate when the world sees the believer lacks basic necessities. Such circumstances seem to suggest that God is not capable of caring for its people. But in reality, much of the care of God for us has been delegated to other Christians. Our compassion should extend to all those who influence, even more so to other believers, demonstrating our strong commitment to the law of love. A measure that addresses the needs of other believers, we are also creating an environment that will attract others to the family of God.

III. Showing love Romans 13:8-10

A. Love and the law

Question: Is it true that the injunction not owe anything to anyone means that anyone buying a house with borrowed money is violating the biblical instructions? "

In a parable Jesus told of a king who forgave a debt of 10,000 talents to a servant who then refused to forgive the debt of 100 denarii to another servant. Nowhere claim that Jesus had a debt. "Owe no one anything" could be explained as: "One should not refuse to pay their debts to be aware."

The real emphasis of Paul was not in monetary debt. By drawing attention to the concept of debt, wanted to emphasize the great duty of every believer to love others. Over time, Christians must cancel any monetary debt, but the great debt to love others you must always continue. Never come when that love is no longer needed.

He who loves others has fulfilled the law (v. 8). All orders on relations between people are summarized in a single commandment: "Love your neighbor as yourself" (v. 9). If you truly love a person, you'll never want to kill or commit adultery with your spouse, nor steal his pocket, lie or covet their possessions. So, love fulfill the law, not destroyed, but keeping every commandment of the law, motivated by love rather than by duty.

B. The summary of all the commandments

Question: If someone disobeys the commands of God, what does?

It has been said that love fulfills the law in a positive way, providing positive motivation to obey the "thou shalt not" of the law. A truth concerning this should be noted: disobey any command of God is evidence of that love which God requires is not present.

Love does no harm to another. A perfect comment on this truth in another passage is inspired by the Spirit and written by Paul: 1 Corinthians 13. Love is patient with others, and benign. Is not boastful or conceited, but gives to others first (v. 4). Love does not seek its own, but the good of his neighbor (v. 5), until he forgets himself and thinks only about the welfare of others. There is irritated by his neighbor and good wishes before the evil to others (13:5), create the best of his neighbor rather than the worst.

The sum of all the commandments that deal with how we get along with others is summarized in one word: LOVE. Demonstrate that love fulfills the whole Law

Application

It is difficult for our love of God is such that never disobey his commandments. From what we know of our feelings, emotions and reactions, it seems impossible to achieve or express perfect love. But God knows we can not do. It is a work of grace, a beautiful work of the Holy Spirit. God has promised to carry out this work in us, if we ask him and let him do it.

Although the play is completely from God, we are not absolved of all responsibility. We can not blame God if we do not see your love shown in our hearts. When we see flaws in that love that show, we can only blame ourselves and nobody else. We have not let God do whatever He wants to do in us.

Make a vow to fulfill its obligation to allow the Holy Spirit to develop in you a full measure of its fruit. Pray specifically that this love is made perfect in your life. There will be times when it seems that Satan is scaling up efforts to keep you from being processed in the image of Christ. But it creates, the work of God is always progressing.

While you are asking God to fulfill his work on you, begin to pray for others. Intercessory prayer is to pray for others. By asking God to bless and prosper - in physical form, material and spiritual - will notice that the Holy Spirit in you will love his neighbor more.

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