EPISODE 55 – PRACTICE BROTHERLY LOVE – ABOUND IN THESE THINGS 8 ( ABUNDANT FRUIT-BEARERS 21 )
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CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY
The Love-Life Agency
By Benjamin Nana Amissah Ansah
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Saturday 18th March, 2023
PRACTICE BROTHERLY LOVE – ABOUND IN THESE THINGS 8 (ABUNDANT FRUIT-BEARERS 21)
” But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ“ 2 Peter 1:5-8 (NKJV).
From the verse 7 of 2 Peter 1, the apostle Peter, crowns the items for fruitfulness with two transcending verities:
1. Brotherly Kindness (or Brotherly Love) and
2. LOVE.
Let’s have a quick look at these two beautiful and refreshing verities.
BROTHERLY KINDNESS (Love):
It’s from the Greek word, “philadelphia” composed of phílos or phileo and adelphos.
Philos or phileo means beloved, dear, friendly or to have affection.
Whiles Adelphos means brother.
Thus, philadelphia means “fraternal love”, brotherly love (kindness), love of the brethren or to have affection for a brother.
Brotherly love refers to the love members of a family held for each other and would not usually be used to describe the love between members of different families.
Jesus in His commandments to His disciples, revealed the essence of philadelphia (brotherly love).
“By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another” John 13:35 (KJV)
Brotherly love is our testimony of discipleship to the world.
The love we demonstrate, one to another enables us to bear much fruits (see John 15:16-17).
The Church cultivated practical kindness towards one another. This radically depleted their differences in culture, status and diverse backgrounds.
They hewn a bond of love in Christ wherein believing Greeks and Jews, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarians, Scythians, slaves and freemen, men and women were now all one in their Lord Jesus.
They willingly stood for one another, supplied help to each others shortcomings, and they loved unselfishly.
These brethren distributed all they had equally among themselves.
The extent you love a brother or a sister in the Lord, is the extent you demonstrate the Love of God in you.
” If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?
And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers.” 1 John 4:20-21 (NLT).
One may ask, what is the connection with being kind or loving a brother Lord to my FRUIT-BEARING?
Okay, read Galatians 6:7-10 (TPT):
“Make no mistake about it, God will never be mocked! For what you plant will always be the very thing you harvest.
The harvest you reap reveals the seed that was planted. If you plant the corrupt seeds of self – life into this natural realm, you can expect to experience a harvest of corruption.
If you plant the good seeds of Spirit-life you will reap the beautiful fruits that grow from the everlasting life of the Spirit.”
And don’t allow yourselves to be weary or disheartened in planting good seeds, for the season of reaping the wonderful harvest you’ve planted is coming!
Take advantage of every opportunity to be a blessing to others, especially to our brothers and sisters in the family of faith!”
(NB: Read these verses also from the Message and Amplified Bible).
Being a blessing to others is how you plant seeds, and harvests great fruits.
And beloved, be a blessing most especially, to the brothers and sisters who are of the eternal family of Christ (these are the born-again believers.
DIG DEEPER:
( 1 John 4:7-21; Romans 12;10; 1 Thessalonians 3:12; Acts 2:44-45; Acts 4:32)
BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
Day 44: Numbers 1-3
DECLARE THESE WORDS:
– I walk in the Love of Christ.
– I genuinely love the brethren.
– I go all out of the brethren in the faith.
-I affectionately serve the saints with genuine heart of love.
– I demonstrate my love for God and my discipleship by loving the saints.
– I don’t get tired in doing good.
Hallelujah!!!
I walk in the love of Christ
I don’t get tired in doing good
Gloreeeey. I demonstrate the love of God at work in me towards the brethren.
Thank you Jesus. I have the love of God at work in me. I demonstrate this love toward the brethren.
Thank you Lord.
From Acts 2:44 the believers were willing to share “EVERYTHING” they had, wow.
They even sold their properties and shared among themselves.
Lord I surrender my heart to you to love my brethren more and more without any fault
Thank you for the rich verities in this episode.I sow good seeds of love by genuinely having strong affection for the brethren.
I genuinely Love the brethren affectionately. Glory to God
I walk in the love of Christ.
I genuinely love the brethren.
Glory to God..
I take advantage of every opportunity to love and be a blessing to others.
I don’t get tired in doing good for the Brethren
Thank you Jesus!!!
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I don’t get tired in doing good.
I affectionately serve the saints with a genuine heart of love.
I go all out of the brethren in the faith.