The Issue of Loving (The Brethren)
Dr. Jerry Branch
1 John 2:7-11
1 John 2:7-11 (ESV) 7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. 11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
As we saw last week, John boldly stated that the REAL PROOF of whether a person is a Christian or not is in that person's life...
The Christian is NOT someone who just says he or she is a Christian...
The Christian isn't someone who just goes to church on the weekends...
The Christian isn't someone who occasionally does a good deed or two out of feeling guilty...
Instead, the Christian is a person who has accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and has put his or her trust in Jesus Christ, and recognizes his or her sinful condition and repents of his or her sin, and now LIVES his or her life with Christ and the Word of God in the center of his or her life...
The Christian therefore does not just follow the letter of the law but rather keeps the commands of the Lord in spirit as well as in action. And if there were more true Christians living in America, there would be a lot less reason for people without Jesus to be calling Christians hypocrites, or mean spirited, or other things.
So it is for instructing the church, which tells me there were issues back then among those who called themselves Christians, so it is for instructing the church then that John said back in verse 5, ''5 but whoever keeps his ...
Dr. Jerry Branch
1 John 2:7-11
1 John 2:7-11 (ESV) 7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. 11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
As we saw last week, John boldly stated that the REAL PROOF of whether a person is a Christian or not is in that person's life...
The Christian is NOT someone who just says he or she is a Christian...
The Christian isn't someone who just goes to church on the weekends...
The Christian isn't someone who occasionally does a good deed or two out of feeling guilty...
Instead, the Christian is a person who has accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and has put his or her trust in Jesus Christ, and recognizes his or her sinful condition and repents of his or her sin, and now LIVES his or her life with Christ and the Word of God in the center of his or her life...
The Christian therefore does not just follow the letter of the law but rather keeps the commands of the Lord in spirit as well as in action. And if there were more true Christians living in America, there would be a lot less reason for people without Jesus to be calling Christians hypocrites, or mean spirited, or other things.
So it is for instructing the church, which tells me there were issues back then among those who called themselves Christians, so it is for instructing the church then that John said back in verse 5, ''5 but whoever keeps his ...
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