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Fulfilling the Law and Drawing a Sword - Romans 2:23







"You who brag and boast about the law dishonour God by breaking it" - Romans 2:23 

 Most of you would be thinking, but God tells us to obey His law? You are absolutely correct, but my point is to make known that Jesus and his commandment, that is the law. Why? Let us see what He said: 
"'Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them.'" - 
Matthew 5:17 NIV 


 Jesus has fulfilled the law and gave us a commandment: To Love One Another (John 13:34-35). 
But what is love? 
One thing should be clear, and remain very clear. YOU CANNOT LOVE WITHOUT GOD'S SPIRIT. The love the world claims to give is touch and go and does not last long. But love with God's Spirit, and you're in high skies. But love isn't just being kind and friendly, no, it is about obeying God and sustaining with Him until the end. True love is when you sacrifice things for others so that they can have a reward, that is, something better than they ought to deserve to. Like Jesus did for us, so that we wouldn't have to die spiritually or physically! 

“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.  For I have come to turn
“‘a man against his father,
    a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
    a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
Matthew 10:34-36







  I want to give more emphasis on this. There is an enmity between light and darkness is what Jesus was trying to describe here. For example a daughter-in-law might not believe in Jesus, but the mother-in-law might! And light and darkness cannot be together. So that draws a line. Another example is if a brother believes in Christ, but the rest of his family don't, there is enmity. Jesus is actually doing us a favour with a sword! 
He doesn't want us to be influenced by the world and its behaviours. 


Verses on this: 

Ephesians 5:13
But everything exposed by the light becomes visible--and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.

John 1:5 
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it

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