Paul told believers to act freely with Gentiles, but always within the bounds of Christ's law. Love needs depth and insight, rooted in truth. Without boundaries, the speaker says, love becomes destructive, like a river without banks.
say, "Hey, okay, I will adapt to that in order to be able to reach these souls." So, but then Paul goes on and he says to the ones that are outside the law, to the Gentiles, and in the context of Scripture, Paul is saying that, "Okay, they operate as one under the law." I mean, not under the law. So in other words, that I'm going to do everything long as it doesn't go outside of the bounds of Christ. And we see this is very consistent with the way Paul writes and he teaches, because if we go over to Philippians, you can just fact-check this with you, because I truly encourage people to just stay in the word of God. But I believe it's in Philippians 1, starting in verse 9. You know, Paul is talking about our love growing in insight and depth, all in the context of truth. In other words, if we think of a river, if any of us have ever flown, if we ever just seen the river, we always know that it's protected by two banks, right? And so Paul, in other words, he's saying that when we love people freely, it should be depth and insight to protect that. Because if you take a river and it has no banks, then it just, it's destructive. It kills everything. The water just moves and it's freely to do whatever it wants to do. So when we bring this back into this and contextualize, he's saying that with the Gentiles that I I am under the law of Christ. So yes, I'm going to freely do things, but I'm not going to go out, out of bounds to my Lord and Savior Jesus
