Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Verse 14, but above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

Bond of perfection is kind of a, it's really the perfect bond.

Right, the completing bond, right? the thing that ties it all together right

um perfect in the sense of

which is love not a rug yeah but no yeah love

if you all love one another right

why is that the perfection of this

includes everything else right you're going to be doing everything else

and let the peace of god rule in your hearts to which also you were called in one body and be thankful

so body here is the same kind of idea we were just talking about when he says says you need to all be one body, that means you need to all be thinking together, acting together, all on the same page, working together, not at cross purposes, right?

Not in conflict.

And love is what makes that possible.

Right? And then the result... And love is what makes that possible. Right.

And then the result, right, of this happening being given this new life that's characterized by these things and experiencing this love, notice not just as an individual, but in a

community, right?

When St. Paul talks about love about love like here he's not talking

about having a warm feeling of the love of god in your heart he's talking about loving each other

right no matter what we smell like no matter how irritating we are on a given day right that we

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