Laying down our lives for the brethren

[Adullam]

Greetings to all,

I would like to draw a parallel of two separate verses that are actually related through the numbering system used in the bible. The 2 are as follows...

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Here is a wonderful parallel between the love we receive from God and the love we pass on to others. Jesus laid down His life for us so that we would lay down our lives for our new brethren. This is the way of the disciple. So if we believe in the Son....we will behave as the Son. This is what brings us into eternal life. He who keeps his life will lose it...but He who gives up his life will find it into eternity.

Peace to all who are in Christ,

John

 

[GodspromisesRyes]

AMEN brother john

yes i would also like to add a scripture to this

Eph 5:1 ¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;


Eph 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.


Eph 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;


Eph 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.


Eph 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.


Eph 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.


Eph 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them.


Eph 5:8 ¶ For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:


Eph 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)


Eph 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.


Eph 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].


Eph 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.


Eph 5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.


Eph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.


Eph 5:15 ¶ See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,


Eph 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.


Eph 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].


Eph 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;


Eph 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;


Eph 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;


Eph 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.


Eph 5:22 ¶ Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.


Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.


Eph 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.


Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;


Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,


Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.


Eph 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.


Eph 5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:


Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.


Eph 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.


Eph 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.


Eph 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.


We are His flesh and bone and he gave himself for us.we are told at the bottom about husbands and wives but before that we are told of the brethern. This mind should be in us towards not only our spouses but each other!

 

[Adullam]

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

Galatians 6:14 KJV

Here the cross would appear to be the power of salvation...not in a religious sense, but in a reality sense according to power. In other words the message of the cross is not just based on an assent to facts of history...but a present work of death or separation from this world bringing one into divine fellowship with Christ and His brethren.

 

[Joe67]

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

Galatians 6:14 KJV

Here the cross would appear to be the power of salvation...not in a religious sense, but in a reality sense according to power. In other words the message of the cross is not just based on an assent to facts of history...but a present work of death or separation from this world bringing one into divine fellowship with Christ and His brethren.

Adullam,

It is a double-edged sword.

First is justification, peace with God through the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, thereby we love the Lord our God with all our heart and strength.

The second is in the image of the first. Grace saves us from the sins of our lust and pride. We are given to suffer in loving our neighbor as ourselves to the glory of God the Father as we confess the Lord Jesus before men.

One crucifies us unto the world. The other crucifies the world unto us. We are hated without a cause. We become a sign spoken against even as our Lord was, as we bless our neighbor in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Joe