<p style="text-align: left;"><b>Summary</b>:<br>Paul reminds the believers that they were called into freedom—but that freedom is not meant to become a pretext for self-centered desires. Instead, he frames their liberty as the very thing that should move them to willingly serve one another, with love as the driving motive. He then narrows the heart of God’s instruction to a single guiding principle: the kind of love that seeks a neighbor’s good in the same way one seeks one’s own. Finally, he warns that when a community turns inward with hostility—treating each other like rivals rather than family—it sets itself on a path of mutual harm, where ongoing conflict can end in the group’s own ruin.<br> <br><b>Teaching</b>:<br>The freedom Jesus has given us is the freedom of the New Jerusalem. We taste that freedom even while we are still living.<br><br>Because Jesus loved us and took the role of a servant, we too must love one another and serve one another.<br><br>When we connect freedom and love, the one who loves God is free, and in the one who loves there is freedom. By believing in Jesus, we come to know love; within that love we receive freedom; and within that freedom we are able to act in love. In other words, it is faith working through love.<br><br>The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of love, and a person of the Spirit enables others to love; and when we love one another, we end up serving one another.<br>And if we do not learn love from Jesus, everything is empty. The Father God so loved us that He gave His only begotten Son; Jesus’ death on the cross is also love; and Jesus fulfilling all the Law was accomplished in love. Do not forget that He was filled with the Holy Spirit in order to fulfill that Law.<br><br>Therefore, if we are to love one another, we must be filled with the Holy Spirit.<br><br><i>Excerpt from the sermon by Pastor Lee, Mar 11, 2026</i><i><br></i><i>Galatians 5:13-15</i></p>
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