Love Friends and Bless Enemies

Paul has given us 11 chapters of deep theology. The only reasonable, worshipful response is offering ourselves as worship and to be transformed by God. Then, he tells us that this transformation is displayed in our humble living together as a body in love. Now we get to see what that love looks like. It's genuine. It's sincere. It's without hypocrisy. It hates anything that threatens the beloved. It makes no caveats. It makes no distinction between worthy and unworthy of its affection. It makes no distinction between insiders and outsiders. This is a love that we can't make on our own. This is a love that we can only live and display having seen it and experienced it. This is the love that we see in a Father sacrificing His Son and a Son dying willingly for rebels.