“When they came to Haran, they settled there.” – Genesis 11:31 NIV
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John 13:35 KJV
When we look at the world around us or at different families, each country, island or family has unique character traits. The way the people dress, the food they eat, their beliefs etc. It is easy at times to identify where someone is from, by these things. Many today claim to be disciples or followers of Yeshua. Many claim to know Him, but how can we truly tell if someone is a disciple of Yeshua.
Yeshua shared many things with the disciples about the Kingdom of God and what it is like. The number one attribute of the Kingdom of God is love. Love for God and love for others. You may ask, what is love? Love has many meanings today, depends on who is describing love. However, the truest definition of love is what God did for us. The sacrifice of His Son, Yeshua died for us because God so loved us, Johnn 3:16. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends, John 15:13 KJV.
Yeshua told the disciples, by this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another. We can be identified as a disciple of Yeshua if we have love one to another. If you cannot love your brother or sister, you cannot be identified as a disciple of Yeshua. If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 1 John 4:20KJV.
The way we know we’ve been transferred from death to life is that we love our brothers and sisters. Anyone who doesn’t love is as good as dead. Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know very well that eternal life and murder don’t go together. This is how we’ve come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. 1 John 3:14-17 MSG.
If you are a disciple of Yeshua, you must have love one to another. Tomorrow, we will continue and define what is love, what love looks like according to Yeshua.
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