Shalom I wish you a blessed and successful start into the new week. May the Lord bless your hands work and everything you do!

1 John 4: 20

If anyone says, I love God, and hateth his brother but, as he is a liar; because who does not love his brother whom he has seen, can not love, he does not see God!

God’s love and brotherly love are inseparable!

Is still got a “bid” required after the apostle had brought to the essentially necessary context of God’s love and of brotherly love? And, a “bid” help us?

It is as if John inwardly hear how arise objections to his short, sharp sentence in 1 John 4:20.

Since it is only the opinion of the apostle, one could think differently at this point also. Yes, we must even love for God as the more important of the love solve brother. As emphasized John: Everything I wrote is not only my own opinion. I follow it a clear commandment of God.

My remarks you could start a discussion and contrast make your contrary opinions. But any discussion is over, when we stand before our Lord’s command.

Pray for the brotherly love, so that God’s love bear fruit in your life.

God’s protection, blessings and peace

Pastor Lionheart (Thorsten Wurm)