{"id":22547,"date":"2025-02-21T18:49:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/?p=22547"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:57:43","slug":"do-you-love-the-brethren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/do-you-love-the-brethren\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Love the Brethren? I John 4:21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timgreenministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2017\/03\/baptist_bread.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"351\"\/><figcaption> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/timgreenministries.org\/the-baptist-bread\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Baptist Bread<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>&#8220;Do You Love the Brethren?&#8221;<\/strong><br>&#8220;And this commandment have we from him, That he who<br>loveth God love his brother also.&#8221; I John 4:21<br>Bible Christians were absorbed, were literally bathed in a<br>divine love. I do not know of any stronger language found in<br>the Bible than on the matter of a Christian and Christian love.<br>I John 2:10 says, &#8220;He that loveth his brother abideth in the<br>light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.&#8221; Now<br>you watch something, this may sound very spectacular to you,<br>but the Bible says that if you love your brother, it will keep you<br>from stumbling! And I say Christians who backslide and<br>stumble, lost their joy and lost the power of God and the peace<br>of the Lord in their heart, because they were not right in their<br>feelings and relationship toward other Christians. &#8220;He that<br>loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none<br>occasion of stumbling in him. &#8221; But it goes on, &#8220;But he that<br>hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and<br>knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath<br>blinded his eyes. &#8221; (vs. 11). A Christian that does not have<br>love, is a Christian, God says in His Holy Book, that is walking<br>in darkness. And God using this expression, says he doesn&#8217;t<br>even know where he is going. That is true of a Christian that<br>does not have love in his heart. &#8211; T.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the \u201cBaptist Bread\u201d February 21, 2025 devotional by author Dr. Tom Malone (Deceased), Pontiac, MI. With permission from Tim Green, editor Baptist Bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timgreenministries.org\/the-baptist-bread\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Baptist Bread<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do You Love the Brethren?&#8221;&#8220;And this commandment have we from him, That he wholoveth God love his brother also.&#8221; I John 4:21Bible Christians were absorbed, were literally bathed in adivine love. 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