Paul is concerned with how Christians behave with one another, but he is more focused on why they do so. He does not want his readers simply to do right and avoid sin. He wants them to do so because they have matured into the likeness of Jesus. He wants them to have right being that leads to right doing.

This is still true today, as Pastor Jamie points out in this message. Paul has much to say about various relationships between people, but hovering in the background is his desire that we do right because we’ve been made right.

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