In the Sixth Commandment God commands us to love our neighbors:
1. What does it mean to love my neighbors?
2. 2. Who are my neighbours?
Questions to think about during the sermon:
Introduction:
1, How does Father Brown (from GK Chesterton) help us to understand Lord’s Day 40 of the catechism?
Point 1:
2, What is the first reason why I must love my enemies?
3, When I have enemies, who is fighting what battle where?
4, If I don’t love my enemies, why – and how – does God take that personally?
5, The catechism says twice (A107 & A108) that God condemns anger: is it always wrong for Christians to
be angry? [God is sometimes angry, and Jesus was angry!]
Point 2:
6, In the Old Testament God gave the Israelites different rules for ‘brothers and sisters in the church’ and
‘strangers.’ In the New Testament should we treat fellow-Christians differently than unbelievers?
7, What does it mean to ‘love my neighbor’? Does that mean to treat everybody in the same way? |
