January 31, 2012

“Darkness”

Blessings Folk!

The Word is abundantly clear.
There is absolutely no doubt.
There is no room for varied opinion.

The Lord wants us to know this.

This is a Word for those who profess to be true Believers.

1 John 2
9 The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.
10 The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
11 But the one who 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.

It is simple.
You can not profess to be of the Light of God and hate a brother.

If you hate, then you are in Darkness, not Light.

But, wait!
There is more.

1 John 3
13 Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.
15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer.
There is no eternal life abiding within.
True.
Clear.

We know that we have passed out of the Darkness of Death into life because we love the brethren.

One more…

1 John 4
19 We love, because He first loved us.
20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

Clear.
If you hate and say you “love God”, you are a liar.

Liars will not inherit the Kingdom.
They will inherit something else…

Revelation 21
8 But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

The Lord tells us that the world will know that we are His disciples by our love for one another.

John 13
35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

What does the world see in you?

Liar?
Lover?

Therefore, if you truly love God, then love one another.

It is the Lord in us that loves…

Blessings!