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ADD BROTHERLY KINDNESS TO GODLINESS
How to Keep From Falling Series
 
! 2 Pet 1:5-10
*/5          And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;/*
*/6          And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;/*
*/7          And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity./*
*/8          For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ./*
*/9          But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins./*
*/10         Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:/*
 
            Sometimes the word “love” is misused.
Some of its value has been lost in that misuse.
Think about the following use of the word “love” and I think you will agree with me.
Dearest Jimmy, No words could ever express the great unhappiness I’ve felt since breaking our engagement.
Please say you’ll take me back.
No one could ever take your place in my heart, so please forgive me.
I love you, I love you, I love you!
Yours forever, Marie... P.S., And congratulations on willing the state lottery."
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*/John 13:34-35/*
*/34         A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another./*
*/35         By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another./*
How can anyone, even God, command love?
At least how can anyone command what most of us call love -- that emotion, that feeling of attachment or endearment to others?
Maybe Jesus wasn’t talking about that which we typically call love today.
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What is love anyhow?
Modern man loves everything from women to fried chicken -- at least he says he does.
To some, love is no more than sexual desire.
Our present society has the connotation of love as being only an emotion or a feeling.
It’s that lump in your throat, or knot in your stomach when you’re in the presence of that certain girl or guy.
It’s a warm and passionate embrace between lovers, it’s the desire to have or to possess someone as your own for all of life.
But this isn’t what Jesus is talking about at all.
Jesus isn’t saying that the world will know we’re Christians because we’re always going around kissing and hugging each other.
Others aren’t to know we are his disciples because we always tell each other -"I love you," or because we "feel" warm feelings toward them.
The love Christ commands is not so much something to feel, as something to do.
It isn’t so much an emotion as it is an action.
Jesus is talking about our behavior, about how we act toward others, how we treat them.
That’s why Jesus could say: "a new commandment I give to you." you can’t command an emotion -- but you can command an action.
The love Jesus is talking about here is an act of the will.
It represents not so much an involuntary response to conditions, as it does a deliberate choice, a calculated set of the mind.
Love is not an emotion.
It’s a policy.
\\           Christian love is not something you fall into.
This is why it can be commanded.
We need to begin thinking of love as a concept of action and service and ministry governed by the will and intellect, rather than, as an emotion governed by fickle feelings and deceptive desires.
\\             One of the greatest temptations on earth is to reduce love to human terms -- to talk love instead of living it.
Love is something you do!  Words are cheap.
It’s easy to talk love.
Not only is loving one another a command.
Not only is it a sign that we are a Christian.
It is also a sign that we are saved.
*/I Jn 3:14-16/*
*/14         We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.
He that loveth not his brother abideth in death./*
*/15         Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him./*
*/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./*
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Aristotle said, "a man cannot expect to be loved unless he is deserving of love."
\\ But the kind of love that Jesus teaches us to have says: "I love you -- with no strings attached."
It is a love that is the result of being devoted to one another.
*/Rom 12:10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love.
Honor one another above yourselves.
(NIV)/*
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This kind of love should be nurtured so that it will grow.
*/1Thes 3:12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
(NIV)/*
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Paul’s admonition to the church is that brotherly love is a given.
It is a part of Christian living.
It is a lesson that God himself teaches us.
*/1Thes 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another./*
Paul’s description of love in I Corinthians is not just for marriages.
It is the Bible description for real love.
*/1 Cor 13:1-13/*
*/1          If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal./*
*/2          If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing./*
*/3          If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing./*
*/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.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away./*
*/9          For we know in part and we prophesy in part,/*
*/10         but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears./*
*/11         When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me./*
*/12         Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known./*
*/13         And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.
(NIV)/*
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When we truly love others, No laws will need to govern our behavior or conduct, for love goes above and beyond any law.
\\ */Gal 5:14-15/*
*/14         The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."/*
*/15         If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
(NIV)/*
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It may be significant that Jesus uses a verb tense that should be translated "KEEP ON LOVING."
Our love for each other isn’t to be a one-time act, or an occasional thing, but a constant and continuous endeavor.
Elsewhere, Paul says: "Let love of the brethren continue."
(Heb 13:1)
The people JESUS commands us to love are those who are unlovely, stingy, nasty, dull, selfish, or downright mean.
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