The debt of love is a happy debt

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The debt of love is a happy debt (Romans 13:8-10)

There is also a phrase from poet Yoon Dong-ju poem, 'I am happy because I love you.'

When I first came to church and heard the words to love God with all our heart, mind, and soul, even sacrificing our lives, I thought that humans have a duty to do that.

Then, at some point, I found myself loving God without even realizing it.

Before that, I struggled with holding on to each verse of the Word and doing QT, but at some point, I held on tightly to the commandments that made me one spirit with the Lord in Christ and kept them. So the Father's love came on me, and the Spirit and life of the Lord appeared within me, and I confessed, "I love you, Lord." There was no longer any awkwardness or shame.

I have finally learned the routine of passionately loving the Father and the Lord.

I learned this by freeing myself from the curse of the law through the cross of Christ, being taught by the Holy Spirit in the Lord, knowing the truth, becoming holy, and rejoicing in the glory of God.

Q. Why do you say you should not owe any debt other than the debt of love?

“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, do not steal, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love workes no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” (Romans 13:8-10)

A. Because love is the fulfillment of the law.

In fact, Christians must act toward others either with perfect love or with perfect law.

In fact, Christians must act toward others either with perfect love or with perfect law.

You should not talk about what you're doing when it is neither this nor that.

It means not to be indebted to or burdened by anyone.

True love is the moment you say you love it, that love will already be dramatized.

Just as a flower cannot be expressed in words, love cannot be described in a few words.

We should not be obligor to be good to our parents, spouses, brothers, friends, neighbors, etc.

There are no parents who swear and love their children to be good to them.

Parents pour everything they have into their children because they have nothing but love.

It is harder for parents not to love their children than to love them.

Paul owes a debt of love to spread the gospel to everyone in the world (Romans 1:14)

He was not a debtor oppressed by the debt of duty, but a debt of love boldly crying out to Rome.

Because of that debt of love, the gospel became global.

So he tells them to owe nothing to each other except to love each other.

Obligation is a debt.

This means not doing things out of obligation, but doing them out of love.

They say that love is a debt, but in reality, love is not a debt that is repaid as an obligation.

This is because it is a voluntary energy that accompanies the joy that comes from the Christ within us evolving into light, that light into life, and that life into love.

When the Lord becomes a talent within us, instead of feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, welcoming strangers, clothing the naked, caring for the sick, and caring for those in prison for the Lord, we end up doing it as if it were our own work.

Later, the Lord said to the righteous, “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came and saw me.” The righteous answered, “Lord, when did we do that for you?” They ask back.

They did it because they thought it was their duty.

This is because talent is of infinite value and is an enormous energy of life that we cannot help but love.

But those in the position of the goat ask when the Lord was in such a state.

We were always preparing for our duty to the Lord, so why was there no contact? They do it like this.

This is the standard for distinguishing between the right and left sides, the righteous and the wicked (Matthew 25:31-36)

The righteous are people who embodied love by Christ and consider it to be their work, but the wicked are filled with the obligation to love and the mentality of compensation, but end up being judged.

Therefore, as one who has been set free from sin and death in Christ and has no obligation to live according to the flesh, he thinks and lives with the spirit according to the Holy Spirit, and thus fulfills the love required by the law and gains  the glorious freedom of the Son of God, you have to learn the knowledge of the truth.

As a result, we must not be owners of a slave spirit with a sense of duty to keep the law, but Christians who have the spirit of the Son and extend the energy of love outward, and are willing to endure the labor that comes with love.

That is a holy living sacrifice.

The debt of love is a very happy debt.

Because love itself is happiness.

Because we love God, the first half of the Ten Commandments are fulfilled, and because we love our neighbors as ourselves, the second half of the Ten Commandments are fulfilled.

So, chapter 5 of Matthew's Gospel of the Sermon on the Mount, which is the absolute ethics of heavenly citizens, provides freedom from the law, chapter 6 provides freedom from one's own righteousness and worries about life, and chapter 7 provides the righteousness of Christ in the Holy Spirit.

In chapters 14-16 of the Gospel of John, we see that things are slowly coming to fruition when the Holy Spirit of truth comes in us.

There is no consciousness of reward for the loved one.

We only remain in debt for failing to love more.

That is why we say that the debt of love is itself a happy debt consciousness.

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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