Sermon Notes : In Christ Alone - A Study In Romans: Rom 13:8-10

  I.  Love is the debt we owe.

    a.  Love protects others against failure to repay.

-owe = opheileo = owe, indebted, obligated, ought, must

-Matt. 18:30, 34

-Luke 7:41; Philemon 1:18

-Matt. 5:42; Luke 6:34-35; borrow = danizo = to borrow money, to lend money;

-MacArthur "It is a debt we are constantly to pay against but can never pay off."

    b.  Love demonstrates itself through action.

    c.  Love sums up the law.

-summed up = anakephalaioo; comes from noun kephalaion = main point, summary; Heb. 8:1

-anakephalaioo = to summarize, bring to the main point; Rhetorical term used of summing of a speech or argument.

-Matt. 7:12

   d.  Love fulfills the law.

-Harrison "What then is the relationship between lvoe and law? In Christ the two concerns which seem to have so little in common, come together. To love others with the love of Christ exhibited is his new commandment (John 13:34). And if this love is present it will make possible the keeping of all his other commandments (John 14:15). Love promotes obedience and the two together constitute the law of Christ.