Posted by
daddontsk8 on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:03:08 AM
What an amazing statement to lead off this passage:
“We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.”
Love, according to John, is life. Without love, death. This is not something we like to believe. Everything about the world tells us the opposite is true. Survival, self-preservation is so deeply engrained in each of us that to do anything that opposes that principle seems foolish. But love requires us to not even consider self-preservation. Jesus said,
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” - John 15:13
The spiritual doesn’t look like the physical. In fact, what may be true in the physical is false in the spiritual. It is no wonder all nations are deceived (Revelation 18:23).
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