Episode Description
If you go online and visit a poetry site, you will find 10’s of thousands of poems that attempt to define “love” for us.
You find poems that say things like “Love is gazing upon a pool at night, bathed in shimmering moonbeams, roses in full bloom, etc…”
It seems to me that for many people, love is a sort of vague, dreamy, emotional fog. But Scripture refuses to let love remain wallowing in the swamp of abstraction. If love is going to replace a religious code — as Paul insists it does in Galatians — then we need something far more concrete than moonbeams and roses.
However, in these closing chapters of Galatians, Paul has told us that the entire Christian life is “faith working through love.”
In 5:13, he says, “Through love serve one another.” In 5:22, he says the fruit of the Spirit is love. So, love is the new standard of conduct for the believer.
But that raises a crucial question:
What does real love actually look like, and how do we practice it?
What does real love do?...
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