Why Love and the Law of God?

Why are we creating a blog about Love and the Law of God?

Simply because love and the law are inseparable. If you consider this for a few minutes, we think you'll agree. 

Before we get started, and to avoid confusion, we need to separate the doctrine of how we should love God and others from our ability to do so. These are two separate issues. The first is what are to do to love God and others (and what that means). The second is how we only love God and others. (The answer is that we only obey when by grace alone he empowers us.) 

We also need to say that loving God and others, or obeying his law, comes only after a person is saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, by hearing the Scriptures alone, to the glory of God alone. We are saved, made righteous in position, justified, forgiven all by faith in Christ alone, apart from works of the law.  Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  We don't believe in works salvation as this is taught nowhere in Scripture. More on this later.

Justification is one thing. Obeying God as a justified believer is another. Both are by grace, but they are two different things. 

OK, so why do we believe love and the law of God are inseparable?