Hello, welcome back to the Upper Room podcast.

We are hearing from Larissa Miller this week on the Book of Galatians and the role and work of the Holy Spirit in our lives and our need for him to truly love one another, to truly love our neighbors.

And I would encourage you to get out your Bible, read along, and let the scriptures cut you

fresh and new this week. We love you. I'm back on, I'm back on the path of the Second Commandment

today. You know, Jesus said the first and greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

And the second one is like it.

It's to love your neighbor as yourself.

That all the law and the prophets are summed up in that.

So I believe that when we operate in the Second Commandment, it's evidence of our having lived

the first.

Can I say that again?

When we operate in the Second Commandment, it's evidence of our having lived in the first.

We only have what we've received.

Not once, but with regularity.

We're receiving the outlandish, extravagant love of God.

And that's what we have to give.

To the measure that we receive is the measure that we have to give.

And so we're going to read a fairly large chunk of scripture today.

So that's great. All right.

So we're in Galatians 5 beginning in verse 13. For you, brethren, have been called to liberty only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh but through love serve one another for all the laws fulfilled in one word even in this you shall love

your neighbor as yourself but if you bite and devour

one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another. That's what we call Facebook.

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