Love Your Neighbor As Yourself.
“But
speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the
head, even Christ.” — Ephesians 4:15 KJV
Love must speak the truth, especially about sin and forgiveness. There is no love without truth. There is no truth without love. The cruelest of all cruelties is to excuse
sin, and thereby prohibit its forgiveness.
A truly loving person calls sin what it is; and then seeks to help the
sinner find repentance, forgiveness, absolution, restoration, the power to turn
away from their sin, and the strength to walk in newness of life.
We all sin. Our duty of love to
each other is to help break the chains of slavery to sin, and walk together in
that freedom which God supplies, and Christ purchased. There is a lot of stuff being passed off as
love nowadays, which is really hate. Real
love is shaped like the Law of God cut into the shape of a bloody cross. Love never excuses or makes excuses for sin. Leaving the sinner enslaved to sin is hate,
not love.
Yours in Christ
Augie-Herb
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