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Sunday, July 24, 2022
Series: ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
LIVE Message: The Law of Love
Scripture: Matthew 7:12 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
Scripture Reading: Matthew 22:37–40 / Colossians 3:12–
14 / Galatians 5:22–25 ESV
Matthew 22, Colossians 3, Galatians 5 ESV and Audio
The Great Commandment
37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Put On the New Self
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Keep in Step with the Spirit
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
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Sunday, July 24, 2022
Series: ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
Message: The Law of Love
Scripture: Matthew 7:12 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
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Message: The Law of Love
Sunday, July 24, 2022
Series: ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
Message: The Law of Love
Scripture: Matthew 7:12 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
Scripture: Matthew 7:12 ESV
Matthew 7 ESV and Audio
The Golden Rule
12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
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SERMON NOTES
Sunday, July 24, 2022
Series: ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
Message: The Law of Love
Scripture: Matthew 7:12 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
One of the foundational questions of moral philosophy down through the ages is: “What is a virtuous life?” When Jesus speaks about what a life of virtue looks like in the Sermon on the Mount, He’s not doing so in a vacuum. He’s joining an ongoing conversation in His Greco-Roman and Jewish milieu. And the clearest example of this dialogue is in Jesus’ articulation of what we now call “The Golden Rule.”
In this passage from Matthew 7:12, Jesus is the first person in world history to make love the central, unifying virtue. This is a watershed moment that continues to shape us today. Not only does Jesus give us unparalleled moral clarity with His ethic of love, He also provides us an unprecedented power to live into that ethic. Let’s explore how Jesus ties the Sermon on the Mount together front-to-back with rhetorical genius.
The Way of Love
- The Way of Love: Scholars of the Gospels have long observed that Jesus’ virtue of love both unfolds and deepens over the course of His teaching ministry; and it begins with His teaching of The Golden Rule: treat others as you would want to be treated. In contrast to earlier concepts of virtue, Jesus’ ethic is one of loving service, empathy, compassion, and grace. A few years later, Jesus expands on the summary of The Golden Rule with Matthew 22:37-40; love God, love others. Then, at the end of His ministry, Jesus went further in John 13:24-35; love others as I loved you. With these revelations, Jesus’s virtue of love is unfolding and deepening: treat others the way you wish to be treated; love others as yourself; love one another just as I have loved you. So, what is a virtuous life, the ethic of all ethics, the commandment of all commandments? The true ethic is a life of love like Jesus.
The Life of Love
- The Life of Love: It’s one thing for Jesus to give us this unparalleled moral clarity in His ethic of love. It’s another thing to empower people to actually live into it. Notice that the timing of when Jesus gives the New Commandment in John 13 is the night before He goes to the cross. In other words, the New Commandment isn’t given in isolation, it’s surrounded on every side by the New Covenant inaugurating the work of Jesus and the promised indwelling of the Holy Spirit. In other words, it is only through the redemption of Christ and the indwelling of the Spirit that we can begin to follow Jesus in His way of love. When we walk with the Spirit in Jesus’ way of love for others, the righteous requirements of the law of God are fulfilled in us. It is the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, that empowers us to live a life of love like Jesus.
The Heart of Righteousness
- The Heart of Righteousness: By grace, through faith in Christ, and by the Holy Spirit we now have the heart of righteousness. And this new heart of righteousness grants us access to the abundant life of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Takeaway: In Christ and by His Spirit, our Father is loving
us into loveliness.
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Episode 34: What Is Love?
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Episode 34: What Is Love?
Pastor Philip and Pastor Eric
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What is love, what does love do, and how can we pursue a virtuous life of love? Join Pastors Philip and Eric as they discuss Jesus’ message on love from the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7:12). To love like Jesus is to willingly lay down our rights for the sake of someone else.
They’ll address key questions from the sermon, including:
1) What is love and what does love do?
2) Is it possible to love too much?
3) Does love need to be reciprocal?
4) Why is it so unhelpful to say “love the sinner, hate the sin?”
5) How should we love the unlovable?
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In this episode, Pastor Philip and Pastor Eric will unpack questions from the recent sermon, “The Law of Love“ Scripture: Matthew 7:12 ESV
Questions about this sermon, “The Law of Love” ~ Scripture: Matthew 7:12 ESV Submit them to 312-682-1888 or by email to livingthemessage@moodychurch.org. Your submissions will help us shape the conversation for our weekly podcast, Living the Message.
PASTOR TO PEOPLE
Last Sunday I spoke at the Bethany Beach Tabernacle in Michigan, and our family decided stay a few extra days to enjoy the lake. We had a great time playing in the water and soaking up the sun. I’ve got a pretty impressive farmer’s tan now!
There’s something about being on the water that speaks to my soul. I’m a nature guy, and find that God always shows up when I get still and get out in creation.
We had some decent swells on the lake, and as they broke across my chest, I was reminded of God’s power: strong, irresistible, awesome, and mighty.
We spent hours building sandcastles, only to have them disappear overnight, and I was reminded of my own insignificance: finite, transient, ephemeral, and earthly.
As each wave after wave steadily broke against the shore, I was reminded of God’s faithfulness: constant, dependable, steadfast, and true.
How blessed we are that the God of all power is mindful of us in our insignificance, and in His enduring faithfulness has loved us, more than we know!
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