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The core theme is the transformative power of the Gospel in fostering genuine brotherly love, contrasting it with the fragmented and immoral nature of the ancient world, and emphasizing its practical application in daily life towards both believers and non-believers.
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welcome to back to the Bible radio
featuring best-selling author and
internationally known Bible teacher
Warren where's being Father in Heaven we
give thanks for our great Savior and for
the great salvation we have through him
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and may we be nourished and encouraged
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the name of our Lord Jesus Christ amen
when I was a university student I had
some professors who were constantly
extolling the virtues of the ancient
world they kept talking about the glory
of Greece and the grandeur of Rome and
so on but you know when you really look
at the lives of the common people in the
great days of Greece in Rome you find
very little glory and very little
grandeur oh I know we have the
philosophy books and the history books
on our shelves and we talk about these
great men and women but when you look at
everyday life in the ancient world it
breaks your heart what kind of a society
was it well it was a very immoral
society because it was an idolatrous
society religious prostitution was one
of the end things and it was expected of
a wife that she would allow her husband
to have mistresses and so forth
homosexuality was prevalent it was an
immoral Society and this is why when
Paul wrote first Thessalonians in
chapter 4 he spent the first eight
verses talking about sexual morality
keeping your life clean also the ancient
world was a fragmented Society
there wasn't much love brotherly love
there wasn't much love for people just
because they were people you were a hand
you were a worker you might have been a
royal person you might have been a slave
but the society was just fragmented
there was no unity there was no equality
before the law a broken society racially
and nationally and culturally and
economically and perhaps every other way
this is why when Paul wrote 1st
Thessalonians 4 he talked about
brotherly love first Thessalonians
chapter 4 verse 9 but concerning
brotherly love you have no need that I
should write to you for you yourselves
are taught by God to love one another
and indeed you do so toward all the
brethren who are in all Macedonia but we
urge you brethren that you increase more
and more that you also aspire to lead a
quiet life to mind your own business and
to work with your own hands as we
commanded you that you may walk properly
toward those who are outside and that
you may lack nothing Philadelphia is the
city of brotherly love William Penn
chose that name from the Bible it's the
combination of two Greek words filio
which means love and Ethel Foss which
means brother
in fact brother is one of the key names
for Christians in the Word of God you'll
find it about 30 times in the book of
Acts Paul uses it a hundred and thirty
times in his letters brother and here in
1st Thessalonians you find brethren 17
times and so every church ought to be a
community of brotherly love we today
take this for granted but if you and I
had lived back in the day when Paul
lived brotherly love would have been an
altogether new thing the gospel brought
two very special wonders
to the world of that day one was the
hope of immortality Paul talks about
that in chapter 4 verses 13 through 18
there was no hope people just simply had
no hope let me read you some of the
statements that the great philosophers
made about life and death here's one
sons may set and rise again but we when
once our brief light goes down must
sleep an endless night that's encouraging
encouraging
no one awakes and arises who has once
been overtaken by the chilling end of
life of a man once dead there is no
resurrection hopes are among the living
the dead are without hope in fact here's
an inscription that was actually dug up
at Thessalonica here it is after death
there is no revival after the grave no
meeting of those who have loved each
other on earth well so much for the
great Roman and Greek philosophers when
you read the inscriptions it would have
been discovered on the gravestones they
just break your heart because they had
no hope for the future secondly there
was no such thing as brotherly love a
love for Humanity the world of that day
was a fragmented world the rich and the
poor the free and the slaves the Jews
and the Gentiles the conquerors and the
conquered the rich and the poor it was
just a fragmented world and along came
the church and tied everyone together
who believed in Jesus Christ there is
neither Jew nor Gentile bond nor free
male nor female we might go on and say
rich or poor ignorant or educated the
the Word of God makes it clear that
we're brothers were all one in Jesus
Christ brotherly love this was a brand
new thing and it was a miracle people
couldn't understand
why would these people love each other
why would this wealthy man love poor
people why would these people be
accepted in his home that's the
difference it made when the gospel came
Paul prayed for them that they might
abound in love chapter 3 verse 12 and
may the Lord make you increase and
abound in love to one another and to all
just as we do to you that word abound is
the picture of a river overflowing its
banks Paul is telling us don't confine
your love don't have a little stream and
you love your family and you love a few
people in your church and your
denomination he said I want that river
of love in your heart to overflow and
just keep on reaching out wider and
wider in fact did you notice that when I
read 1st Thessalonians 4 9 through 12
Paul describes a growing influence of
love if we are really practicing
brotherly love if love is the
controlling motive of our lives then
that love is going to reach out and
reach out and touch more people in verse
9 we have our love for God in verse 10
we have our love for the Brethren see
it's getting wider now verses 11 and 12
our love for those outside the
fellowship where we work and where we
walk did you notice that Paul is telling
me it's not enough just to love God or
even to love the Brethren that love
ought to overflow the banks and reach
out and touch people where I work that's
verse 11 and where I walk that's verse
12 we have a series of concentric
circles here the small circle in the in
the very center is my relationship to
God I'm taught of God to love God
that miracle in my life then there's a
little wider circle the Fellowship of
God's people
then there's the widest circle of all my
love overflowing to touch those who are
outside of the fellowship let's look at
verse 9 and remind ourselves that all
love begins with God's love for us and
our love for God but concerning
brotherly love you have no need that I
should write to you for you yourselves
are taught by God to love one another
first John 4:8 God is love
that's a simple statement but oh how
profound it is beloved let us love one
another since first John 4:7 for love is
of God and everyone who loves is born of
God and knows God he who does not love
does not know God for god is love so God
is love verse 8 tells me that in verse
16 tells me that first John 4:16 God is
love and he who abides in love abides in
God and God in him now this love that
the Bible is talking about is not a
feeling many people have the idea that
Christian loves a certain kind of
feeling and they're always trying to
manufacture some emotional Cataclysm
some great emotional earthquake and
that's not the way it is the word that
is used for God's love for us means a
sacrificing self giving act of the will
Christian love means I treat you the way
God treats me it's as simple as that God
wants to reproduce his love in me so
that the way he treats me
I treat you that means before I can love
you I have to learn to love God I have
to experience the love of God in my own
heart now Paul says you're taught of God
to love one another
Paul did not have to give them a lecture
about love he said you're taught of God too
too
one another God the Father teaches us to
love one another how by sending Jesus
first John 4:9 in this the love of God
was manifested toward us that God has
sent His only begotten Son into the
world that we might live through him in
this is love not that we loved God but
that he loved us and sent his son to be
the propitiation for our sins beloved if
God so loved us we also ought to love
one another so God the Father teaches us
to love one another by sending his son
Romans 5:8 God proved his love toward us
in that while we were yet sinners Christ
died for us God the Son teaches us to
love one another you know these words so
well John chapter 13 verses 34 and 35
our Lord is talking to his disciples
John 13:34 a new commandment I give to
you that you love one another as I have
loved you that you also love one another
by this all will know that you are my
disciples if you have love for one
another so God the Son teaches us to
love one another and God the Holy Spirit
teaches us to love one another
Romans chapter five and verse five the
love of God has been poured out in our
hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given
to us now this love is poured out in our
hearts and Paul says I wanted to
overflow to other people so we have the
inner circle of our love our love for
God now it gets wider and we have to
love one another though the circle of
love gets wider the river of love gets
wider and deeper you're taught of God to
love one another and indeed says verse
10 you do so toward all the brethren who
are in Macedonia but we urge you
brethren that you increase more and more
you can never love too much now
expects brothers to love each other
brotherly love means that we belong to
the same family we share the same father
we have the same nature we enjoy the
same blessings we're heading for the
same heavenly home it's so unfortunate
in the Bible to see instances where
brothers did not love one another the
first murder in the Bible Cain kills
Abel his brother Abraham and lot had a
disagreement neighbor Ham said let's not
argue we're brothers the Brothers of
Joseph hated him
there was even rivalry among the
Apostles when our Lord was ministering
on earth and today we have divisions in
churches oh my people show up for
business meetings who haven't been in
church for a long time so they have the
privilege of voting against something
brotherly love oh he says I want your
brotherly love to continue and to grow
and to get deeper now let's be practical
how do we show brotherly love he tells
us here one way we show brotherly love
is by working that you aspire to lead a
quiet life to mind your own business
to work with your own hands as we
commanded you if you read second
Thessalonians chapter 3 you discover
that some of the Saints in the church
had the idea that because Jesus was
coming back they didn't have to work and
so they became freeloaders they just
sponged off of other people and the Paul
said you don't do that if you love your
brother you'll pay your bills if you
love your brother you'll work if you
love your brother you won't meddle if
you love your brother you'll mind your
own business
that's brotherly love no people get on
the telephone to share prayer requests
they're really just gossiping over the
Lord's shoulder well we work to show our
brotherly love Romans chapter 12 verse
10 talks about brotherly love Romans 12
can be kindly affectionate to one
another with brotherly love in honor
giving preference to one on
there Paul wrote and said let everybody
esteem others more important than
themselves if you have brotherly love
you don't push yourself in front of
other people have you ever been in a
line some place you've been waiting for
a long time and somebody comes and
pushes in ahead of you this has happened
to us often well it's not good is it
it's not loving and in the local church
we've got to be very careful to love one
another in brotherly love and not to
push ourselves before other people
Hebrews chapter 13 talks about this
Hebrews 13:1 let brotherly love continue
how do you do this do not forget to
entertain strangers for by so doing some
have unwittingly entertained angels in
other words just opening your home
hospitality shows brotherly love don't
forget in the early church there were no
hotels and motels where they could stay
some people were chased out of their
homes in persecution where would they go
they'd go to the homes of other
believers and there they'd find
hospitality remember the prisoners as if
chained with them in those who are
mistreated since you yourselves are in
the body also are you praying for
prisoners are you praying for Christian
prisoners who are in prison they've
gotten saved now they want to live for
the Lord are you praying for ministries
that help these prisoners you see it's
practical brotherly love is not just
some ethereal feeling that we generate
know if there's brotherly love we work
and pay our bills we mind our own
business we don't meddle in other
people's affairs we show honor to one
another we share in encouragement and
hospitality we lay aside the wicked
things of life and we live to please God
because we have brotherly love this
brotherly love ought to abound and get
deeper and deeper finally he tells us in
verses 11 and 12 of 1st Thessalonians
chapter 4 that we should have love to
those outside the fellowship outside of
waat outside of Christ
that you might walk properly toward
those who are outside outside of the
life of God outside of the light outside
of the hope these who have no hope back
in chapter 4 verse 13 but I do not want
you to be ignorant brethren concerning
those who have fallen asleep
lest you sorrow as others who have no
hope these others are the outsiders
outside of salvation what he's saying is
simply this we need to love lost souls
if we love God we're gonna love the
Brethren if we love the Brethren we
ought to reach out and love those on the
outside how do you show your love for
people outside of Christ well by leading
a quiet life not being a troublemaker by
minding our own business by working with
our own hands you don't go to work my
friend to be a preacher you go to work
to do your job now you can best preach
by doing your job and doing it well and
if you're making life difficult for
other people who work with you you're
not acting like a good Christian
brotherly love means I love lost souls
and I'm going to do everything I can to
influence them and if that means working
hard on my job I'm gonna work hard on my
job they're three problems Christians
have to watch out for restlessness
meddlesome Ness and idleness Paul has a
lot to say about that in 2nd
Thessalonians he warns them don't be so
restless yes Jesus is coming back but
the best way for you to be ready for him
is doing your job don't be sitting
around gossiping don't be putting on
white robes and climbing up a mountain
waiting for the Lord to come back get
busy mind your own business do your work
as we commanded you walk properly walk
with beauty and and with good dedication
toward those who are outside because
they're watching you you say Oh God's
gonna take care of our needs well he
says that you may lack nothing if you're
not doing your work God can't take care
of your needs
now if you can't get a job that's
another story God has promised to meet
every need but he's talking here to
people who were working and he says the
best testimony you can be is a testimony
of faithful work for the Lord
first Timothy 5:8 Paul wrote and said if
a man doesn't provide for his own
household he's worse than an unbeliever
what a tragedy it is when the Christian
in the office is the worst worker when
the Christian in the shop does the
poorest job that's a poor testimony
spend all your time witnessing
quote/unquote trying to get people's
lives straightened out when you ought to
be perfecting your typing and your
filing and running that machine and
driving that car Paul makes the
Christian life very practical he says
brotherly love is important walk in love
first of all your love to God God is
teaching us day by day to love him and
to love one another now the love of God
has been shed abroad in our hearts
poured into our hearts by the Holy
Spirit we've been to Calvary we've
tasted the love of God now let that
river of love overflow to the Brethren
in the church to the Brethren in other
churches let it overflow to the unsaved
around us let's love people to the Lord
Jesus Christ let brotherly love continue
let's make every church and every
community Philadelphia brotherly love
father thank you for this letter that
Paul wrote thank you for the Holy Spirit
who inspired this letter and now I pray
as we have studied it and reviewed it
help us to practice it help us to live
in the future tense to spend our money
and our time and our energy and to live
our lives in the light of the coming of
Jesus Christ
for I pray this in his name and for his sake
sake amen
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