Let brotherly love continue

Heb 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.


Jesus said this…


Joh 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Joh 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.


Could we love as Jesus loved without Jesus having loved us? No.


No wonder He's *adding* to the commandments already given. Until God's Son divested Himself of His divinity and took on human flesh, living among us, loving us, we could not have that commandment. Seriously, we couldn't have this commandment until Jesus' love was revealed. We already had these commandments--


Exo 20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exo 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exo 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Exo 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exo 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.
Exo 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Exo 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.
Exo 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exo 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.


These commandments show the love we should have for God and the love we should have for our fellowman. But one thing that isn't a commandment in there if is to forgive. We aren't commanded to forgive until Jesus gives us this commandment-


Joh 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Joh 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.


Love one another as I have loved you.


Jesus' love forgives. Jesus loved us by forgiving us in our undeserving state. We are to love others as HE loves us. We are to forgive even when the one we forgive is undeserving, what good is forgiving the deserving, any one does that, but Jesus forgave when we didn't deserve that forgiveness.


Heb 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.


What is brotherly love?


1Th 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.


We are taught of God to love one another. Jesus was our example of love and if we follow His example we will love our brother, we will have brotherly love in our lives. We are commanded to love as Jesus loved. We need to learn more and more of Jesus, we need to get as close as we can to our Savior so we can know Him as completely as possible and know how to love as He loved.


By His grace we will learn to love as He loved, by His love!


Amen