Shalom I wish you a blessed and lucky day. Rejoice in the Lord always, and look at all of it!
1 John 3, 12
We must not make like Cain, who was of the evil,’dem Devil, `and his own brother murdered there. And why did he murder him? Because `He saw that`s his brother did what was right, as he did evil itself.
Together, together!
Jesus himself is already the beginning of seemingly “hatred” under the fifth commandment and shows us the relationship between the “hate” and “killing”. (. Mt 5,21 f) It shall be told John to 1 John 3:14: “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer”.
In the life of Cain that is visible in a terrible way. And it appears to him from what sinister reasons “hate” may arise.
John represents the views of Cain’s fratricide expressly the question: “And why he murdered him?” Abel Cain has done no harm. It also attracted no external gain to eliminate the brother. No, Cain hates and murders, “because his works were evil, but his brother’s righteous.” This was apparently in a special Weis, Abel accepted sacrifice as God and Cain’s rejected. But it will also have been already for Cain a constant thorn in the heart, to see the life and character of Abel.
The “hatred” against the brother arises – also in the church Jesus! – Repeatedly from which to us life and service and use of the brother criticized for internal charges. Then we can not bear the sight of the brother (or sister) and want them out of the way have. This is “murder”, even if we raise no external hand against the other.
That is why the Apostle calls for the community entrusted to him: “Do not be like Cain,” even if no one kills in the municipality of the other external. How fast did it happen that we are in the Mist favor of the other, even though we have not done anything how quickly someone is with us in the Mist favor, although not point the prosecution exists. The disease jealousy poisoned the body of Christ, his church that crap favor is rampant. It will be granted no mutual success, rivalries are announced instead of harmony, brotherly love and each other.
We have to rethink if the body of Christ healthy and to grow. We have to make our way to each other, the body of Christ, it is only possible with a progress together. We are individual cells of the body and provide each other with oxygen, no cell of the body can survive on its own.
Pray for the body and that governed together in your life and you head together with your brother.
“NOT LIKE CAIN”
God’s protection, blessings and peace
Pastor Lionheart (Thorsten Wurm)