If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love” (John 15:9–10). He said, “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Jesus Christ, motivated by love, left His home in glory to obey His Father’s call to come and live among us and suffer and die on the cross to save us (Philippians 2:6–8). Love without hypocrisy abides by God’s Word (John 14:15 2 John 1:6). Jesus taught us in His great Sermon on the Mount to turn the other cheek when we’ve been wronged (Matthew 5:38–42) and even love our enemies (Matthew 5:43–48). Paul calls us to “serve one another humbly in love” (Galatians 5:13). Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others” (Philippians 2:3–4). Scripture teaches us to treat others better than we want to be treated ourselves: “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Love without hypocrisy proves itself not only “with words or speech but with actions and in truth” (1 John 3:16–18 see also 3 John 1:5–6). If we see a brother or sister in need, we do our best to meet that need. Genuine love means wanting what is best for the ones we love. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters” (1 John 3:16, NLT). “We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. Since nothing can separate us from God’s love (Romans 8:38–39), we ought not to let anything separate us from loving others (Romans 13:8). To emulate God’s love, we must love people who are undeserving, unloving, and rebellious, just as we were when God first loved us. He loved us first, even though we didn’t deserve His love (1 John 4:19 Ephesians 2:4–6). We didn’t have to clean up our act for Him to love us: “God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners” (Romans 5:8, NLT).
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God showed us how to live and love as He does in the person of Jesus Christ. We let our love be without hypocrisy when we love like He does-when we replicate God’s love as demonstrated in the life of His Son. How can we let love be without hypocrisy in the daily practice of living in relationship with other believers? Sincere love is grounded in the character of God, whose very nature is love (1 John 4:8, 16). Love each other deeply with all your heart” (1 Peter 1:22, NLT). According to the apostle Peter, the believer’s call to holiness demands that they love each other deeply and earnestly: “You were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters. In 1 Timothy 1:5, Paul urges all believers to “be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and genuine faith” (NLT). Really love them,” reads Romans 12:9 in the New Living Translation. Christians are to demonstrate genuine love. The Greek word translated “without hypocrisy” ( anypokritos) illustrates a love that is sincerely felt or expressed, not pretended. So today, examine your life.According to the apostle Paul, a distinguishing mark of true believers is to “let love be without hypocrisy” (Romans 12:9, NKJV) because love and hypocrisy are incompatible attitudes. It’s not easy, but it is something you can do with God’s help. The Bible says we are to be honoring others.
Those things don’t give you an excuse not to treat them with respect. They might not treat you the right way, they might not dress the right way. They are all created in God’s image and have worth to God. Your friends and students at your school deserve respect. Instead, it just means that you should be treating others with respect. It doesn’t mean that you have to treat every person like a queen or king and bow down to them or something crazy like that. Honor isn’t something that’s complicated. We should be striving to love others with God’s love and treating others with respect. Yes, we should be honoring others as well.
But what about friends and other students? Do we need to honor them too?
We know that honoring our parents, teachers, coaches, and pastors is important. We’ve talked a lot this week about honor.
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