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Authentic Christians By: Ray C Title: Authentic Christians By: Ray C. Stedman Scripture: Rom 12:9-21 Date: November 25, 1962 Series: Romans (Series #1) Message No: 21 Catalog No: 25 Authentic Christians by Ray C. Stedman This last week, through the magnificent minis- in showing honor. Never flag in zeal, be try of Major Ian Thomas, we heard about the in- aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord. Re- dwelling life of our Lord Jesus Christ lived again joice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, through the Holy Spirit expressing himself in terms be constant in prayer. Contribute to the of our humanity. We learned why our Lord has needs of the saints, practice hospitality. {Rom 12:9-13 RSV} moved into human life and how he has done it. Now, as we turn again to the twelfth chapter of 1. The first quality that marks genuine love is that Romans, we are coming to a section which de- it is faithful. As Paul says in Verse 9, “Hate scribes what the Christian life is like when it comes what is evil, hold fast to what is good.” into contact with the commonplace conditions of Notice how that marks the balanced quality life – when it comes to grips with the world in in love. It isn’t love which simply manifests it- which we live. In this wonderful passage in Chap- self in affection for everything – that is senti- ter 12, Verses 9-21, we have a description of a ment. Nor is it love which cuts everyone off in Christian life being lived. an attempt to be rigidly faithful to the truth and In the words of Ian Thomas, “This is a life not is harsh, unyielding, and difficult – that isn’t explainable in terms of human personality, but it is love. Love is a balance. It is hating what is explainable only in terms of God.” This is the only evil, and holding fast to what is good. life worth living – I hope you have discovered that! This must begin with ourselves, and it is The first thing that Paul says, in Verse 9, is: interesting that the Scriptures say we can only “Let love be genuine.” The rest of the chapter is love others in terms of ourselves. The Law simply an exposition of that phrase. I hope you says, “Love your neighbor as yourself” {see have learned that under no circumstances is the Luke 10:27}. We must begin with loving our- Christian life a matter of imitation. It is never that. selves in a genuine way before we can love It is never you trying to do your best to imitate the anyone else. How do we do this? Well, it be- character of Jesus Christ. This is impossible. Yet gins with hating what is evil and holding fast to it must be a life of genuine love. God is love, and, what is good. The measure of what is evil if the life that we live is God the Son living his life must be determined, not by what we think is again through us, then it must be a life of genuine evil (or what our up-bringing has been, or our love. It won’t be any flabby, cheap, sentimental reaction to it), but by the Word of God. That imitation. This is what this chapter expounds to us is what determines evil. And that which is and there are two divisions to it: Love extended – good is determined, not by the way we think or love reaching out to those around about – and love react, because the one thing that the devil does offended – love slapped in the face, and how it re- in the world is to try to make evil look as acts. though it is good, and good to look as though it is evil. So, if we simply judge by outward ap- Let’s look at the first section – love extended: pearances we can never love. It is only as we walk, think, and look at life in the light of the Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, revelation of the Word of God that we can hate hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another what is evil and love what is good. Page 1 Authentic Christians This must begin with ourselves, and this dard, without ever relenting or yielding to any means, as we think of ourselves, we learn not degree. It is not that either. to justify evil in our life. Oh, how frequently Genuine love is God’s kind of love, which we do this! We love to call it by another name, hates what is evil – relentlessly, inevitable, and and, thus, make it look acceptable. We look at inescapably. Genuine love never varies, is our lives and we see worry, but we don’t call it without shadow of turning, never compromises sin, we call it concern which is simply to call it with evil, never pats it own back and says, by a name that sounds more acceptable. But it “This is going to be all right; let’s forget about isn’t concern, it is worry – and worry is sin. it.” Genuine love never does that. It does not To love ourselves as God loves us is to look at reject what is good, nor does it ever call good ourselves and call that evil which is evil. In “evil” or treat us as though we were unimpor- this case, we must call it worry and treat it like tant, or act as though there were nothing of any a sin, not like a poor relation to be kept in the real value. There is real value in each one be- back room; that is, we don’t actually kick it cause God has made us, and what he makes is out, but we don’t bring it out in the front room good, and he treats us this way. either. The first aspect of true and genuine This is love. What a wonderful description love is to hate what is evil. of it we have here. It approaches all of life On the other side, love does not reject that realistically. It doesn’t exude flabby, sentimen- which is good. We don’t become falsely hum- tal nonsense and gush. It doesn’t deal harshly ble. We don’t act, for instance, as if the body or critically because of the presence of evil. It were evil, because God says that it isn’t; he doesn’t throw out the baby with the bath water. says it is good. There are those who try to It deals with life realistically because God is a manifest a love for themselves by rejecting realist and God is love. Therefore, the mark of what God calls good, and this is wrong. Love love is to hate evil and to hold fast to what is is always the hating of that which is evil and good. That is faithfulness. the holding fast to that which is good – it is being faithful to reality. Love is always emi- 2. Then, in Verse 10, we see that the next mark is nently realistic. that it is courteous: Now this is true also as we move outside to the circle of family. Love doesn’t spoil a child ... love one another with brotherly af- by saying that we hate to hurt it. Many parents fection; outdo one another in showing are literally wrecking their children’s lives by honor. {Rom 12:10 RSV} the fear that they are going to hurt the child in Did you wonder why it says “brotherly” af- some way. Children need to be hurt. If they fection? Some of you who remember back in are not hurt it means you don’t love them, be- the days when you lived with your brothers in cause life hurts children. Either they are hurt the home are wondering where the affection in a small way where they learn how to adjust was. Yet what this is saying is that we who are to a principle, or they grow up absolutely pro- members of the body of Christ should love one tected from all hurt till they come to a place another with “brotherly” affection. I think it where the barriers can no longer be maintained simply means that wherever brothers have or upheld and they are exposed to life and are learned to be affectionate to one another (there hurt in a terrible way that utterly destroys are brothers who are like this, and you meet them, and breaks your heart in the process. them quite frequently), it is because they have Love is not that way. Love begins with facing learned to live closely together with mutual re- small hurts now, and being able and willing to spect. You can’t have affection for someone expose our children to them, that they might with whom you are closely bound, in terms of learn how to live. living together or ties of relationship, without it But neither does love act in harshness, re- being based upon mutual regard for each jecting a child because there are a few faults in other’s welfare, property, and so on. Brothers him, and demanding a toeing to the mark in learn affection only when they are willing to do unyielding insistence on carrying our a stan- Page 2 Authentic Christians so on the basis of a mutual respect for each him.
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