How to live life as a Christian; Love Without Hypocrisy

Just because you’re a Christian, it doesn’t mean you automatically have all the answers on how to live life. But we try our best by reading, praying, studying God’s word, and relying on the Holy Spirit. Even when we are doing all of that, we sometimes struggle to know what the right thing to do is. When we read Romans 12:9 we learn what God says LOVE should look like in order to live life as a Christian, Love Without Hypocrisy.

*Every Monday I will post another important aspect from scripture, on how God wants us to live life like a Christian. I will do this until we have covered the whole chapter.*

SCRIPTURE:

Romans 12:9

⁹Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.

BEHAVIOUR:

Loving without hypocrisy is a challenge at times. This is challenging because our human nature likes to point out others people’s flaws, while denying ours at the same time.

WHAT AND HOW:

• What does it mean to love without hypocrisy?
• How does loving without hypocrisy help us live life as a Christian?

First, we have to understand what love is, and what it’s not. Love is an action, an emotion, and it should be unconditional. Think about God’s love for us, as your example. Secondly, it’s not treating someone one way and living your life another way. Loving without hypocrisy, means your love is unconditional, forgiving and not holding a grudge, not gossiping, and not treating that person in an unloving way when they are not around. We have to love all the time, and not just when we are face to face. Hypocrisy and love do not go together, if we are being a hypocrite, we are not able to show true Christian love. 

When we love without hypocrisy, we are living out true Christian love. This helps us in our Christian walk because it is a reflection of God’s love for us, which brings encouragement to us, and those we are loving.

COMING UP: Hate Evil & Cling to Good

References:
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. © Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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SCRIPTURE READING: ROMANS 12

Verses 1-2

​I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Verses 3-8

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Verses 9-21

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.

Verses 17-21

Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. Therefore
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
If he is thirsty, give him a drink;
For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.