Brotherly Love: The Key to Unity, Part 1

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Today's message by my father, brother Hardy is certain to speak to every one of our hearts in both a powerful and discerning way. It's entitled brotherly love.

The key to unity.

Psalm 133 declares how good and how beautiful it is for brethren to dwell together in unity well. While it is certainly beautiful. It is not always easy, but unity starts with brotherly love. All right were about continuing study on the body of Christ church were startling, but no obstruction on the message. The brotherly law to be unity .1 love for the brother brings unity and peace and you have your Bibles I like to go to Colossians 3rd chapter, and I want to read all these verses.

Colossians the third chapter going to start at the Mike Birch said why not one to another, saying that you will put off the old man with his deeds and put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him where there is neither Greek or Jew, circumcision more on circumcision or Berrigan something in the free but Christ is all and all. There a minute here again we see the whole thing. The theme of what unity in the body. In this verse here, all saying what we can in Christ class and social distinctions melt away found in Galatians 328 there is religion or Gentile bond or free male or female.

Now we find the social order. They appall the Greeks thought they were the greatest people because they have missed. They were all liberal with all the great philosophers were coming out of Greece and they thought that they were the greatest people they look down on the rest. And naturally the Jews they thought they would greatest people because they were God's covenant people. They were the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So Greeks looked down on everybody. The Jews looked out of the body. The barbarians next class how the barbarians wasn't like the American version of the word somebody running around with the loincloth and the boat in the nose of the hatch anyone. He didn't speak the Greek language to the Greek people were barbarians because they thought that their speech was bar bar bar them barbarians look down on the symptoms they were the wall like tribes that were kind of at the bottom of the totem pole of the social order, then course of all the bottom one was a slave he was. He didn't have any rights at all and I will have more rights to kill an animal you are in danger of getting back with you. Go to sleep didn't mean anything. Someone got in the body of Christ to become the new man that the social distinctions fade away and we can see how easy the devil could use these things to bring division in the church, Greek, two of the elite in Christ all melts away that belongs to the flesh when people come in and start talking race position in such a plausible flesh that belongs to the old man we put off that old man. Paul said we were not alive one another. We put on the new man and therefore we are our new order were the body of Christ members one of another. All of those taboos and all of those old restrictions in the world all away were one were all equal in price either June or Gentile, either on the freebie the mail. The female we are that new dynamic man that Jesus wants to empower with all of his power, that we might deliver the world. Remember, so we can see the Holy Ghost weave in this unity. Breaking down and moving out destroying everything that would break the unity because that's the main thing unity and dislike in our body we would call the coordination. We have had that unity or coordination. Or, we cannot function properly and do right now getting to the verse I wanted to put on therefore, were a new man. But we gotta have clothes put off the old man put on the new man manages close a report on the new man in his clothes, and therefore depend on as close as the elect of God. We are the chosen of God get chosen after you get born again, God chose us in Christ. Gotta get in Christ. First, any man be in Christ is a new creature that God chooses us and will and below that were supposed to put on pounds of mercy I give you that little diagram and I got up on the bounds of compassion with the word mercy really means bowels of compassion Greek word us. Blackmore of Warwick remotes with Primos's Blackner board promotes bowels of compassion now to the Greek. They thought that the inward parts of a man with the most noblest parts. The barrels with the inward parts to contain the heart deliver. They thought they were the most noblest part of a man and therefore it was the seed of man and therefore it was our compassion. So Paul is saying by the Holy Ghost. We are to put on compassion for our brother and sister.

It should be our solvent compassion for our brother and sister. Then we will put on kindness.

The Greek word for kindness.

Is Craig still pays it's almost like Christ Greek word for crisis Christos click stoves and another form of this word Christos Christos saidhe almost wish they could say in price and network-based location means kindness is a kindness expressed in attitude and D is a friendly and helpful spirit which seeks to meet the needs of others through kind be. That's what kind of a kindness. Jesus wants us to put on that we will seek to meet the needs of our brother and sister and good deeds and kindness make their me. The Lord is trying to make an impression upon us that we cannot look at our brother and be lighthearted to go up on our way. We've got to look at him. First of all, as the flesh and bone of Jesus in treating that way. Second of all, is our own flesh and bone and body and treat them that way so therefore will miss your brother and sister in need and what we want to do startup up passions spar up our compassion and go to them and try to attitude. Indeed, supply their need to talk about being joined together to talk about being solidified. Being an unity of the devil to get him we have that attitude and that mindset will shut the door. All these pretty little things go do a lot of church gatherings and it's true all attributable things divide and separate the brother and stop them. The move of God and the salvation of souls, we come to that realization that the way we treat our brother and sister will depend on whether we get souls say because the ship by the shuttle member, you are my disciples, and I've heard a lot of people say well if that's a Christian so we gotta be careful not only be careful but that should be that motivating love on the inside.

It should be that bowels of compassion turning over what was your brother and our sister in the back was the thing that marked the Lord. The Bible said that he was moved with compassion on the people I know a lot of times I know we had to be physically wore out. I could see you at the well. When the woman of Samaria came at the well. He was tired. Wendy Bauer said he was tired and weary. I don't care if he was the son of God, he still had a human body that human body was subject to all the facilities that our human bodies are subject to E got hungry.

He had to eat.

He had to sleep before the storm. Remember he was on sleep on the boat. I believe he was exhausted on that boat that even a typhoon could wake him up but when that woman at the well coming Saul that's holding me that he start up this house of compassion began the Bloomberg he forgot about himself and his partners any minister to that woman and pretty soon here come the whole city and he ministered to that city and that great city of Samaria for the Lord. So God wants us to look at our brother and sister and see him and me and then start our browser compassion 12 them were far attitude of compassion a log and ministered supply that need then when I have humbleness of mind, go to many people look down brothers and sisters is under them. Maybe they have an office pastor, the Passover evangelist or just look at the weaker brother and sister never mind a discoverable private.

The Lord wants us to have a mindset of humility, humbleness of mind that thinking are so big of a brother and his needs.

Put them in Steven M above are himself not esteeming them under ourselves was then that opens the door for the double to bring pride and arrogance in puffed up.

And then it brings a separation that stops the body weakness and this is one of those great Greek word knew that was a Dr. Collins course is brought out the sweetness. Remember, and he said Aristotle's definition of the word for meekness which is 12 days and he said that Aristotle's definition, it was the means between two points. Aristotle always went about taking the Greek words trying to find the means between the two points in the two ports was of weaknesses on its morning stop at everything one. It's always angry sleep get angry at the regional thing and the other extreme, was the person that could get angry at all. So then properties was the one in the middle that always knew how to keep the school to keep his demeanor and only express anger at the proper time we reach a little bit more about the word indicates an obedient submission to God to his will with unwavering faith and enduring patience. It displays a gentle attitude and kind acts towards others, and this often in the face of opposition is restrained. Obedient powers of the personality brought under subjection and submission to God's will by the Holy Spirit. In other words, it's being able to keep your spirit undercontrol. Keep it in the proper restraint to keep it into the place where you will always act with kindness, no matter what the brother does back against you. It's a pretty tall order to keep your friend out which are strong with the barrier for me the week the weaker brother don't know that the weaker brother might blow his top weaker brother Mike, get angry at you but your mature see because of the tour because you come to spiritual maturity and perfection and you have this trait of palpitation you how to keep your spirit undercontrol. Keep it submissive to the Holy Ghost and continue to be kind, even when they continue to be Andre `all suffering macro Fumio course we we know the world.

Fumio through moves means burning passion and it means all passion along suffering to be long-suffering with her brother and sister under some people had to be over lonesome and when they come up and they start talking.

I had to suffer long because I do it's good for they get the ball suffering.

It's a long holding out of the mind before he gives room to actions of passion is put up with put up with it indicates the patient, long-suffering and bearing injustice or unpleasant circumstance without revenge or retaliation, but with a view of hope for a final victory that God's will bring. That's long-suffering because of the first hope your brother and mother can't long-suffering when you're in a trial or a test run a hard place. You're staying there rented attitude of grace Sherin attitude of knowing that God's grace is sufficient and you're looking forward to the victory is going to break long-suffering with one another. Long-suffering with God when he's got you to test God suffers long before stony just a company hears that what were maturity brings us up and then all of a sudden we deliberate report and that we want to go to God for this and that we don't realize that God, the long-suffering try to bring us to the point were short suffered with him because we don't get the answer to what we want right away. All right, it's holding the mind for gives room to action, passion of the work for Hollis I quit I give up or somebody when unpleasant things to your low and your cool double-edged goodness. The blower cool that we have to repair brings compensation and then that bring separation. God truly buffered our spirit supposedly believe we can live up to all of these words. Rick will be a pretty good shape for God uses all right 13 first forbearing one another, that is, word, misleading of the English were talking about music forbearing means the put somebody but it doesn't mean that degree. In the Greek the word means to uplift its Anna KO my and it means to tear up your brother strengthening and I think on our diagram of the man.

It's one of his feet and the fingers are foundation nonstandard bears us up. Then the companion when it's forbearing and forgiving you know a lot of people are in trouble in the body of Christ because they hold grudges and if you hold a grudge than the devil can work on that in turn a grudge here for a while in the what a work of the flesh. I believe another Scripture.

Paul said that if you be angry and sin not fifth chapter of Ephesians. Don't let the sunset when you're ramp wipe it on out because if you do, and the devil can work on that and then that could turn into a hate in the spirit to get over that bring you into that mindset. So if we have a brother sister does something been shown that were mature when is the natural reaction of the unsaved natural man when somebody does something to retaliate get back at sea.

Jesus had plenty to retaliate for God the father have plenty to retaliate for what he did. He forgave us he gave us grace and the fact that word here to forgive is in the same family of drinks. Call arrears sold by what is Congress CHA RIS grace that we get charisma right free gifts of grace. Is that right so it's in the Grace family so we all have what grace we could put it, we can put it this way, be gracious to our brother and sister when everything in the match for the old man is Pratap retaliate get back. The new mayor that we put on the site and be gracious, forgiving you still a baby.

Your mature now act like a mature Christian Benny's editorship forbearing forbearing upholding up one another, bracing, forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel means complaint got a complaint got a grievance against her brother with what he was supposed to do. If any man have a quarrel complaint. A grievance against any even as Christ forgave you, so also to be just forgiven. Anyhow, I like to live up to the saying I say it.

And I sure would live up to it and strive. I don't care what others do to me.

I am going to do the right thing back to them if I can live that that I wouldn't be in the perfect will of God.

I will have the victory.

And that's the main thing I want to have the victory that I want to get them into the victory. Hallelujah.

And above all these things to all agape charity, love, which is the bond of perfect weakness. In other words, here we got all these close on weakness also compassion, kindness, humility, forbearing, forgiving now on top of that, put on agape put on God's divine law. And that's the perfect thing that binds us in perfect harmony is the bond of perfectness. It's something that'll keep us in perfect harmony. Because you know if we have a gap. We have law others in secret. So love bears all things. Love seeks its neighbor. So that's the thing that will make us perfect. We just put on love, love you, and how to say, love you anyhow a lot of husbands or wives once they do not say that if they mistreat you that the devil is trying to get the Christian retaliate, but if that other mate could say I don't care what you do to me, love you anyhow I will love you anyhow. Emily say a map and given a breakdown that resistance and God's going to move in a goody-goody man all right always report all these put on agape put a little love that'll keep us bound together in harmony and unity in one monarch in one accord. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you are called in one body. And be thankful.

Getting back to the main outline we have to make the decision to let the peace be the ruling factor in the body through forbearance and forgiveness. If something comes up and it's threatening to disturb the peace and unity of the church and we're going to have to show forbearance and forgiveness when we were going to have to the word endeavor means to strive put out every effort to keep the unity of the peace because we know without the unity stops what revival stops souls to be insane so therefore we gotta keep that in mind we want souls to be saved doubles trying to use everything he can to keep souls and get say the thing that keeps the souls and didn't save the body from my bring a 4% increase in law is bringing in the division's consumer separation. A brother and sister so that each part is not bringing forth its measure of increase is not ministering to the other brother see when I got something against you, you got something against me were not ministering or increase one to one another and not only are we suffering whole body suffered God's gotta stop revival messages God's gotta stop bringing people in to get say that he will deliver and deal with our problem. You see I see this a lot you can have services all the time but you can have revival time and the hardest thing in the bigger your church. It's a harder job is for the Holy Ghost to keep everybody in love at all times because there's so many avenues that the devil can come in the break that unity but we gotta be wise is the serpent.

This is wiser, wiser, and harmless as a dog and say all I know your trip devil you're trying to get me in my old flesh. You're trying to belittle resurrection of the old man because you want to stop so wise to you. I want to take it for Jesus.

I would do this for Jesus public tickets for Jesus. Some people used to say to me years ago, Mr. juice, and yes I know what I'm doing I'm doing for the Lord. He might think that he's using me but I said I'm doing what I'm doing for the Lord's cause I'm doing for Jesus I'm doing for souls God in him will have to reckon with that part what I'm doing for souls are not told them they do not hoodwink in me what I'm doing when I'm sacrificing is for the unity of the body in the sea souls say that's the main thing that's the thing that's the motivating principle of my life is to keep the body and unity keep us in all think it was in one minor one accord that God's anointing and power can sweep through the services rendered in beautiful when all of God's people in unit think everybody's in his place. And God, the great maestro uses every part to lift up the Lord Jesus Christ reach of the devils kingdom savings and heals and delivers. No one is more joy in heaven hello what we shall all everybody gets mad at us out there for God saves and heals the gotta be a afternoon wanted they could really be mad if God has saved and healed and delivered somebody has to be hallelujah all right we have to make that decision. We gotta have that mindset that I am going to do everything with him. Mom might empower to keep the unity of the piece. The piece gets broken.

The unity gets broken. It's likely to be made. I want to do everything on the bend over back. I don't care if I am right now, Michael insert my rights. A lot of times people assert the rights in the wrong little talk about the researcher right and you're wrong. If you impede the body of Christ. Paul had a lot of registry to sell a lot of rights for the Lycos aside for the unity of the body and for the salvation of souls okay Ephesians 1st chapter and I'll start the first verse it says are, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are call in our vocation is to be a child of God, the ambassador, the representative the Lord we got a great responsibility resting on us calls exhorting us to walk worthy of that: where we were called with all lowliness see how is bringing it human again. Breaking down I'm a male your female, Jew, Greek, rich, poor you did come from the right side of the track, we could save all the right track.

Make a difference, which saw the truck you were on. We got say if you get saved you get on the only track how many say man with all lowliness and meekness hears that word again with long-suffering here it is again.

Here's that word again forbearing one another in love, bearing one another up and love it here, is endeavoring the keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace: I'm I could argue know if you get around people argued pretty superstate or what happened Oregon spirit gets if you get around people. That's gossiping about somebody. No matter you don't have it in your mind.

You stay around them and what happens at spirit get on you.

You join him. Emily saying them. You know what we want to do when people start talking about a brother and sister say brother you know what we will do brother needs prayer. Let's pray and if they have the right Moodle go pray that they have the wrong will of the get out of there.

We ought to bear one another hold one another up lift up one another Denver the world's food so it works because of meetings with all diligence, with all our might, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Philippians the second chapter let's read that I will start the first verse again. I like this clip begins to wonder if there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love any fellowship of the Spirit, if any, barrels, and mercy hears those two words again if there's any striving passionate compassion and you should fulfill ye my joy that you be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and one mind that nothing be done through strife or vainglory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of other nothing. Third verse be done through strife or vainglory, and a lot of people just after the horn so they can get praises vainglory.

Even the Bible even talks about in the Old Testament.

Some people even pray. Confess this might but we should do everything to lift up the body of Christ, to lift up the Lord to see people say Psalms 133 one. What a beautiful Scripture, behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity and I think the next part of the verses for us like the anointment it ran down Aaron's beard and tripped and we start talking together.

Unity is like a refreshing outpouring of God's spirit on your soul when you got pictures are wonderful when you come in the church you love everybody and everybody loves you and everybody loves one another. What an atmosphere. What an attitude that's the attitude that's the atmosphere that God is going to bring the cigarette. He's not going to bring in lands and sheep into a place for the bike and devouring one another, doing things out of the strife and vainglory. That's the works of the flesh is okay we are to strive for. Brotherly love, we see that gotta work at it.

The devils want to keep you busy working at it probably before you get home tonight after the service devils going to try to do something applicable for someone you would have to work at it but have to bear up and forbear and have had what grace you have been back brace and forgive and be gracious Lord, help us will strive for. Brotherly love.

First Peter 122 scenes you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit into unfailing love for the brother see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently what happens. How do we get saved we purified our souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit and it brought us to what a position of unfailing love. If we even get to a position of unfailing love. We were really not you will and our soul.

So now that we have been to her father. Souls brought to a position of unfailing love for the brother than we want to watch stay in that place and love one another with a pure heart is one thing and crypto's that means without high hypocrisy. A lot of people go on got a sham of love that you love your mother put the dagger into unfailing love, perfect example when is a good centripetal Bible of Thane love Judas exactly come up with Jesus. I can almost see his face I could see him coming up Jesus, I love you. I remember once in my own experience when I was just a young Christian and person cover my last one a day. And I mean they threatened me and every other thing. All they really just threat me and acted like a pure devil. When I come the church that night they were at the door and when I came in the Hudson Valley is home to Kissling apartments a few hypocrite Thane love we are to have on Thane without high hypocrisy.

True love.

If we don't have love that gives us something to pray about see that you love one another with a short heart fervently Came though he Taino a cut. No say in a potato lately, but, as it were streaming mobile illustrating the love your brother and sister thunder God's work at this university were so many scriptures in the Bible about loving your brother did you we just got started to love brings the vision and sin that's that's really understandable is Galatians 5 1214 but by the law serve one another. Most people want to be served but remember when the disciples came to Jesus and said, Lord, who's going to be the greatest and he said he that would be the greatest B servant, even as I came not to be ministered to but to minister to and give my life a ransom for Mattie so by low, serve one another for all was fulfilled in one word, even this much you love my neighbor as thyself. But if you bite and devour one another, here they were to talk about your brother and sister in price. But if you bite and devour one another to keep that you be not consumed one another. That's what the devil likes to do… Give one a sword another hatchet and they say second while once hit one of the hatchet once retaliate with the sword is after gobbling up our lost loved one and amen. What an eye-opening Holy Spirit admonishing message by God servant brother Hardy brotherly love. The key to unity the book of acts is the birth certificate for the church, the body of Christ and its outstanding birthmark with unity again and again we read that the believers were in one mind and one accord in interesting fact about the book of acts is that the work, love is never used because you don't have to preach about love when everyone is walking in love. It's a different story when we get to the epistles of the apostles Paul said that if anyone be in Christ he is a new creature, old things are passed away in all things are become new. And he said this includes a new wardrobe. He described these new clothes as mercies, kindness, humility and meekness, long-suffering, and above all, the perfect bond of love as the church multiplied and spread throughout the Roman Empire, there arose factions and worldly influences crept in. Christians were shielding outright sin in the church.

Others were going to court to sue other believers in front of unbelievers, all of which the Holy Spirit condemned the church faced falling and failing brethren. And as Jesus said it is impossible, but that offenses will come. And James said that we all offended some time. So how does the church deal with offenders and attendees.

There is the Bible way to deal with these issues and the emphasis is on restoration, not amputation.

Only one church out of the seven in Revelation had an open door of evangelism given to them by Jesus. Philadelphia the church brotherly love this message.

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