Friday, December 20, 2019

Love For Christ Brings Love For One Another

Not as the world loves, but love God's Way

Our desire is the same as the desire of Christ, "that all would be saved", even though we know not all will, we must speak truth for those who might. We are not responsible for the results but we will be judged according to our obedience for our rewards.

We are living in the last days in which there is little time left to tell the truth about salvation and very few people who will listen.

We must be led by the Holy Spirit as to our calling and as we hear Him we must obey, even if no one else believes us or supports us.

1 Corinthians 12:15-26
15 If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.
19 If they were all one member, where would the body be?
20 But now there are many members, but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;
23 and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,
24 whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked,
25 so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it."

When are in contact with born again believers we feel all the things they feel. We care about all the things they care about, we negate no one nor do we elevate ourselves above anyone else.

The only good in any born again believer is Christ, without Him no one is good. It is Christ we elevate not man, but we love one another because of Christ in each one. We can recognize the gifts and callings in one another because of Christ.

John 13:34-35 "…34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so also you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” "

The missing element in the modern Christian church is the love for one another, this is the reason we see apostasy growing exponentially, because there is no love for Christ and thus no love for one another.




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