"Love your neighbor" by Neal Pollard

August 4, 2024 - Sunday PM Sermon

 

Love your neighbor

• What does loving our neighbor look like?
  • Paying a debt - (Romans 13:8-10)
  • Pay forward the debt we owed but couldn't pay
• What does it mean to perish?
  • It means to go to hell
  • It means to be lost
  • It means to lose one's soul
  • It means to lose one's self
  • It means to be destroyed
• Rendering a Service - (Galatians 5:13-14)
  • It leads us to restore a fallen neighbor
  • We do this work spiritually
  • We do this work gently
  • We do this work introspectively
  • It leads us to bear our neighbor's burdens
  • Showing impartiality - (James 2:8-13)
• What does God say about the poor and needy?
  • God chose them
  • God sees them as rich
  • God sees them as his heirs

"I remember," says C.S. Lewis, "Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man's actions, but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say hate the sin but not the sinner. For a long time, I used to think this a silly straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself. However much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty about it."

 

Duration 12:50