gillespie9669
surmises great evil
Joined: 29 Aug 2003
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Location: JAMAICA, WEST INDIES
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 Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject: THE TRUE TEST OF DISCIPLESHIP!! |
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DO YOU POSSESS THE "SIGN" OF TRUE DISCIPLESHIP?
1 John 4
| Quote: | 20 If anyone says, ‘‘I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
The New International Version, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House) 1984. |
Notice that to the Bible not loving ones brother is the same as to "hate" him. How is this love, WHICH IS THE OPPOSITE OF HATE manifested?
1 Cor. 13
| Quote: | 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails.
The New International Version, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House) 1984. |
Therefore it follows that to not show this love is the same as hating one's brother. And our brother is NOT just he who is part of our social group, church denomination, etc. Have we not all one Father, and hath not one God created us? Can we say that we truly are loving God whom we cannot see if we are failing to love even those we see as unlovable? Only you can answer that question. And try not to deceive yourself in testing your yourself with this question. God bless.
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Derrick Gillespie (First labelled "SDA", THEN, "Pseudo-SDA", and then "Impolite". What label next?) |
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