'Manifested Brotherly Love.'
1 John 3:17-18.
a) If anyone has material possessions.
b) And they see a brother or sister in need.
c) Then they have no pity on them.
d) How can the Love of God be in that person?
e) Dear children. (John was writing as a 'spiritual father')
f) Let us not love only with words or speech.
g) Let us love with actions and in Truth.
(Through this Second one I discover Manifested Brotherly Love)
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'Christ Died For All.'
2 Corinthians 5:15.
a) Christ died for all people.
b) There are those people who live no longer for themselves.
c) They live for Christ.
d) He died for them and rose again.
(This Second one simply reminds me that Christ Died For All and challenges me about my responses to that Truth)
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Chris.
Apostle John was writing to the Church as 'dear children'. The reason for this was that he was a 'spiritual father' to the Church. We can read the contents of his letters and see the intimacy with which he wrote. One of the greatest needs of the Church today is for 'spiritual fathers'.
