They Forgot That The Love That Fulfills The Law Also Condemns Their Abominable Pride
“How ridiculous to overlook judgment because of kindness, then love wounds itself by killing justice.” -Charles Spurgeon
Last weekend, I saw someone who had posted a pride flag (Pride goeth before destruction; Proverbs 16:18) that said, “Love is the law.” Of course, not realizing that the rainbow that the Lord gave to His people as a covenant was given after He destroyed man for the very sins for which the sodomites of today are advocating (Genesis 9:12).
Yes, love fulfills the law (Romans 13:10). Yet, what these abominable promulgators seemed to overlook in their biblical illiteracy condemns the very lifestyles for which these advocate (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13).
We are to Love the Lord our God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first table which is found in (Exodus 1:12), This is the first and great commandment.
And the second table is to be where we love our neighbors as ourselves, which is found in (Exodus 20:13-17).
“On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” -Matthew 22:37-40
Jesus did not come to abrogate or do away with the Law that He came to fulfill. He said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil” (Matthew 5:17).
This love, of course, is that which has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, who has been given unto us (Romans 5:5).
Therefore, those who are born again (John 3:3) will love what He loves and hate what He hates (Psalm 97:10). Friends, sin is moral, not physical. What do I mean by that? I mean that you have a choice to commit the act of sin or not to commit the act of sin. Never fall into the error that moral inability will be an excuse for sin by saying that they were born this way or cannot help themselves. We are all born in iniquity (Psalm 51:5), as do we all need a Savior from our sins (Matthew 1:21).
Let’s go to the cross of Christ for a moment. The cross is an exhibition of the Lord’s hatred for man’s sin (1 John 3:4), and His willingness to redeem men back unto Himself through the sacrifice of His Son and the shedding of His blood as the propitiation (1 John 2:2). The Law shows us our sins that put Christ upon that cross in Romans 3:20. Read Isaiah 53:5-6.
When we look to Christ upon that cross, dying a grueling, unexplainable death and giving up His life for ours as an awesome display of His love and willingness to redeem us back unto Himself (2 Corinthians 5:19), we can see how love then fulfilled that law (Exodus 20). He did for us what we could not do for ourselves (John 1:29).
What Jesus did on that cross was His victory over sin and death, and to the believer who is forgiven upon repentance, the power to live by His grace is now doing the same (Matthew 1:21; Ephesians 2:8-10). God, through His Law, as the schoolmaster, drives us to the cross to see Him who died to redeem us (Galatians 3:24). Then, out of gratitude, we live unto Him who died for us (2 Corinthians 5:15). Upon repentance, because of the Lord’s mercy, we find that mercy rejoiceth against judgment (James 2:13).
Those who look to remove the law, which exposes and condemns the sinner, are thereby creating a god to suit their sins. This god of theirs is a figment of their imagination and does not scripturally exist (Exodus 20:4). This is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is another gospel that is bringing a curse upon the nation if received (Galatians 1:8).
The inspired writer of two-thirds of the New Testament stated, “And not rather, (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just” (Romans 3:8).
Furthermore, Romans 6:1-2 tells us, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
Conclusion: It is not the sin that goes to Hell. Rather it is those who choose to remain in their sins (John 8:24).
