John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Denominational ideas do not translate into Brotherly love and can never bring the Capstone down, regardless of what man can achieve. It has no real Love.
BROTHERLY KINDNESS SHOULD BE OUR GOAL
There is not another life for you to live in order to do what is right, we only have this life. Therefore, if Brotherly Kindness is in you, it will be visible in the things you do, the actions you have toward others in the local church.
Brotherly Kindness will show itself to those you enjoy being around and those you do not enjoy being around. And it cannot be because you have too. There is something in you that desires too, because you love them, you have communion with them, you go to church with them.
THE WEAK AND THE STRONG
Maybe you have had problems with someone, something they have done. That doesn’t mean they are not saved. You cannot have problems with someone without it affecting your own peace. Try to be at peace with them whether they will be at peace with you are not.
If Brotherly love is in you, you will show it not just to those that are easy to love, but to those that are for some reason otherwise. To the weak and the strong. You will find that many times, it is the weak that will stand for you when you need it the most – when others will not.
There will always be weak ones – still Christian’s – you cannot be made perfect without them. Therefore, always walk a straight and clear path, leaving nothing for others that are weak to stumble on.
Heb 12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 5 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
We must always pursue that which makes for harmony, and edification.
Rom 14:16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
EMPATHY
If you don’t understand someone - try to put yourself in their place.
Maybe there are things that you have never experienced, which they have had to deal with, and it has marked their behavior. It has caused them to distrust others, and feel like people don’t like them, because of past hurts.
Maybe they are a sheep that are going astray, stubbornly rebelling against God, and it manifest itself in their actions that are not right - toward you and others in this church. Be kind to them back, as hard as it may be, without “dissimulation (hypocrisy).” Whether they love you back or not. If they are God’s they will respond to Brotherly Kindness, more than condemnation – eventually in repentance and they will come back to you in like manner.
Also, some can never get over things that form their personality. You must realize they are that way, and show kindness when you can, when they will let you.
JUDGING ONE ANOTHER
IMPORTANT - Please, try not to condemn or judge others that do wrong too harshly. Ask yourself, is it by my standard or God’s that I am judging them. Right or wrong, their heart could be God’s. The inside could be right, they are just not listening. Eph 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
God is love. If you don’t have that, then what you do here is an imitation of it. According to Corinthians 13, your works and your spiritual gifts will mean nothing. I would rather see a church that bears long with one another, than to see great spiritual gifts. 1 Corinthians 13:4 Charity suffereth long…
WRAPPED GIFTS TO ONE ANOTHER
We are wrapped gifts to one another. Your gift to others is to be wrapped by - sanctifying yourself for someone else’s sake. Love them more – than our own selfishness.
One of the sadist things that Jesus ever said, was "Father, I sanctify Myself, that they might be sanctified." In other words, He had a right; as a human being, to do things others enjoyed in life. But He sacrificed many of His rights as a human, for those he was with, as an example of love to them. He had a right… "I sanctify Myself for their sake": a Gift of God, keeping Himself sanctified for others.
Oh, gifts of God, keep yourself sanctified for others. Don’t demand your own way, even if you have a right.
It is this age which the capstone comes to rest on Brotherly Kindness (2 Peter 1:4-7).
GOD WANTS YOU TO STRIVE FOR THIS. Yes, we fall short, but we must make a continual effort.
MENTAL BROTHERLY KINDNESS
Many have this mentally and that’s all. You hear it preached mentally, but what you hear mentally must become spiritual. Otherwise, you don’t really mean it – it is like someone hugging you and telling you that they love you while putting a knife in your back. To be real, it must be in your heart! Without hypocrisy.
By this all men will know you're My Church, when you've got love one for another.
Not a mental Brotherly love, that is insincere, and only an imitation of the real (Judas). That causes hurt and confusion. What I do, you do, in the local church, must come first from the heart. Our talents, our spiritual gifts, our self, must be BROTHERLY KINDNESS manifested outwardly from the inside. Then God will except our worship, our singing our preaching, whatever you do and whatever is done, whether anyone else excepts it or not.
NOTICE: There are some that are weak today, and it is noticeable. But they are still real believers, what if something happened to them. That is why BROTHERLY KINDNESS is in the local church? Brotherly kindness will pick them up and try again and again. You might be the weak one tomorrow.
This is the age that meets Christ the Capstone. It is BROTHERLY KINDNESS that CHARITY WILL REST ON.
2 Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
BLASPHEMOUS NAMES - JEFF IN 62-1104M
First: foundationally, is faith. Second: add to your faith, virtue; to your virtue, knowledge; from knowledge, temperance; from temperance, patience; to patience, godliness; and from godliness, brotherly love, brotherly kindness; and then love being the capstone: seven of those things. Seven church ages (See?), and seven stars of the church ages, and all of it is tempered together by the Holy Spirit.
Now, that's what it takes to become a servant of Christ. Christ builds His Church in seven church ages, His Bride, a Person, Woman, Church. Seven church ages constitute and make the Bride: some out of this age, and some out of that age, and some out of that age, and all together, and shaping it like a pyramid. – William Branham
Pastor Bill Ivy, Living Word Tabernacle – Campbell Missouri USA - www.livingwordtabernacle.com