15.14 WALK – Walk in love as Christ has loved us
The next verse exhorts us to walk in love just as Christ loved us and gave His live for us. The most important thing in Christianity is love.
When we love, the requirements of the law will be fulfilled without us trying to fulfill them. This in why the following verse tells us against fornication, uncleanness, covetousness, filthiness, foolishness, coarse jesting, etc. When one walks in love, one does not harm others or themselves.
(Ephesians 5:1-4)
1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And WALK IN LOVE, AS CHRIST HAS ALSO LOVED US and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. 3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
Let me share a very important truth about walking in love. We cannot walk in love until we have learnt to sit. Most Christians try to walk without sitting. They end up trying to love through their self-effort under law. Most Christians still think they are under the law of Deut 6:5:
(Deut 6:5)
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
That was the Old Covenant where God demanded love from sinful man. They had to prove if they could love God through their self-ability – all their heart, all their soul their all their strength. Sinful man could not find love in them. They failed to keep that law. So if you try to love without learning how to sit, you will be headed towards failure. The law brings you to the end of yourself.
How do we love under the New Covenant? We have to be seated – in the love of God for us. Eph 5:2 actually says to “walk in love AS CHRIST HAS ALSO LOVED US”. Paul prayed earlier in Eph chapter 3 that you may know the width, length, depth and height of the love of Christ towards you. This is the opposite of Deuteronomy 6:5 which focuses on man’s power to love (or the lack of it).
(1 John 4:19)
We love because He first loved us.
When you have the revelation of His love for you, you are seated well. Then walking is easy. You are simply letting the love of God flow through you. You are not “trying” to love. So let us walk in the love of Christ in the New Covenant.
When we love, the requirements of the law will be fulfilled without us trying to fulfill them. This in why the following verse tells us against fornication, uncleanness, covetousness, filthiness, foolishness, coarse jesting, etc. When one walks in love, one does not harm others or themselves.
(Ephesians 5:1-4)
1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And WALK IN LOVE, AS CHRIST HAS ALSO LOVED US and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. 3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
Let me share a very important truth about walking in love. We cannot walk in love until we have learnt to sit. Most Christians try to walk without sitting. They end up trying to love through their self-effort under law. Most Christians still think they are under the law of Deut 6:5:
(Deut 6:5)
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
That was the Old Covenant where God demanded love from sinful man. They had to prove if they could love God through their self-ability – all their heart, all their soul their all their strength. Sinful man could not find love in them. They failed to keep that law. So if you try to love without learning how to sit, you will be headed towards failure. The law brings you to the end of yourself.
How do we love under the New Covenant? We have to be seated – in the love of God for us. Eph 5:2 actually says to “walk in love AS CHRIST HAS ALSO LOVED US”. Paul prayed earlier in Eph chapter 3 that you may know the width, length, depth and height of the love of Christ towards you. This is the opposite of Deuteronomy 6:5 which focuses on man’s power to love (or the lack of it).
(1 John 4:19)
We love because He first loved us.
When you have the revelation of His love for you, you are seated well. Then walking is easy. You are simply letting the love of God flow through you. You are not “trying” to love. So let us walk in the love of Christ in the New Covenant.
posted by Joshua Lye @ 11:55 PM
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