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JUNE 9
LOVE THE BRETHREN

Scripture:  1 John 3:13, 14 “Marvel not, brethren, if the world hate you.  We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.  He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.”

    One sure sign that we have been born again (passed from death unto life) is that we love the brethren.  When Jesus moves on the inside our hearts change and love replaces the hatred that was once there.  We see things in a different light now!  
    The Preacher’s Outline and Sermon Bible says that “Love is the proof that we have passed from death over into life. Love is not the cause of our passing over into life; it is the proof that we have passed from death to life. Jesus Christ is the One who saves us from death and gives us life. But once He has done this, we love our brothers. And we can know whether or not we have passed from death to life by our love. If we love our brothers—all of them—then we have been saved from death and we have eternal life. If we do not love our brothers, we have not been saved from death and we do not have life.”
    I remember a number of years ago that He took my heart all to pieces and when He put it back together, it was filled with His love!  It’s not the words “I love you”, but the actions where we show people our love by what we do and not by what we say.  Without that love that can only come from God, in our lives, the Scripture says that we still “abide in death”.  
     "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently" (1 Peter 1:22).
    When He lives on the inside of our heart, there will be love there.