Topic: Brotherly Love
Text: 1John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
This is how we know what love is: can be correctly translated this way.
1. God gives us the definition of what love is. Unselfishly sacrifices for the other person.
2. The root of love is unselfishness! That is foundation. A foundation given of God not of man.
Christ, our God set the example, therefore we who claim to be of God, should show forth the character of God, that is of unselfishness to others.
Love is Meeting the Needs of Others. 1 John 3:17
If God has given you the ability to meet the needs of someone else, and you refuse to help that person John asked the question, "How can the love of God dwell in the person?"
1. V18 John says let us love in action (deed) and in truth.
2. The point John is stressing is that if we have the love of God in us, then it WILL be manifested or seen in our actions.
3. You cannot serve God without serving others. You can read you Bible every day, pray without ceasing, live a holy life, praise God with your lips all day long and it will totally worthless if you do not serve others. God is not honored in vain sacrifice and ritual worship. He is honored when His child loves Him enough to love others and meet their needs. Many complain they cannot witness claiming they do not know how. The problem is often they have not earned the right to witness to someone because they refuse to truly love them and seek to help them. People know true love when they see it and they also know when someone is going through the motions with truly caring for their soul.
I Pray that God will remove every hatred in our life in Our country in Our family that is causing fighting and killing of innocent citizen in Jesus Name and give us his perfect love of others ijn
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