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Love Fulfills the Law – Sunday School Lesson, August 28, 2016

To follow along, visit your local Christian bookstore, and ask for the Bible Exploratory Study Book

Golden Text: “Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law” (Romans 13:8)

Why is love for others called a debt? We are permanently in debt to Christ for the unconditional and lavish love He has poured out on us. In return we are suppose to love others, as He loves us with unconditional love and everlasting love. Since Jesus’ love will always be infinitely greater than ours, we will always have the obligation to love our neighbors. Read More

Secret Sin

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. – Psalm 51:1-2

Psalm 51 is associated with one of the hardest experience of David’s life, the aftermath of his affair with Bathsheba. David’s call for mercy is the only appropriate request for a confessing sinner. No sinner should ask for justice, that’s why Grace came, so we would not get what we deserve. Mercy and forgiveness is God’s gift to the confessing sinner. Read More

The Battle Is The Lord’s

So Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord – 2nd Chronicles 20:4.

Jehoshaphat’s reforms were not hollow religiosity, and they did not break under the strain of sour circumstances. As soon as he heard of bad news from the north, Jehoshaphat sought God and proclaimed a fast. He knew that success required God’s favor and if God was for them, they could not lose. Read More