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Excerpted from: Producing FruitI am sure that I could have used dozens of scriptures to illustrate this and to prove it, but it all boils down to this: It is the way we live that reveals who the children of God are.
Those three sections that I have read to you, "by this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you love one another" (John 13:35). That illustrates something. The children of God are made known or manifested by the way they live. I John 3:10 makes that very clear.
We understand what righteousness is, and in this context righteousness is love. Loving your brother, to be more specific. To not do anything—I am taking [picking] this out of what John says here—is almost equated as a form of hatred. It is almost equated with murder.
John makes it very clear in verses 17 and 18 [I John 3:17-18] that fine words, or fine thoughts, or fine feelings can never take the place of something that is done.
I John 3:17-18
Excerpted from: Producing FruitJohn makes it very clear in verses 17 and 18 [I John 3:17-18] that fine words, or fine thoughts, or fine feelings can never take the place of something that is done.
Now, is this all tying in with what I gave at the beginning? Idleness invites disaster! It is not good enough for us to be swept clean. A new dynamic has to be found. That dynamic is love! Love is something that is done. It may possess fine thoughts, and that is good. But is does not really become love until an action is motivated.
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