In his sermon, 'The One Another’s of Scripture (concluded)', Steve Hopkins emphasizes the centrality of love as the foundation for all 'one another' commands in Scripture. He explains that true love for fellow believers is evidence of being born again and knowing God. The sermon highlights that God's love was demonstrated by sending His Son, Jesus, to die for humanity's sins. This act of self-sacrifice sets the standard for how Christians should love one another. Key 'one another' commands include bearing each other's burdens, comforting one another with the hope of Christ's return, and showing humility and preference for others above oneself. Hopkins stresses the importance of serving one another, as exemplified by Jesus washing the disciples' feet, and the necessity of forgiving one another as God has forgiven us. He also discusses the significance of hospitality, urging believers to open their homes and hearts without grudging, and stresses the need for unity and building each other up in the faith. The sermon concludes with a call to pray for one another, emphasizing that such prayer can profoundly impact the lives of fellow believers, and encourages the church to commit to daily prayer for each other to foster spiritual health and unity.

At the onset, when we started looking at the topic of the one another's of scripture, I said that it's impossible to exercise the one another's of scripture without love for one another. Every one of the one another's command of the people of God in scripture falls under the category of love. And it's impossible to have love for one another and obey the commands of God, to exercise love one toward another, unless one has experienced the love of God Himself or Herself. No person ever truly loves the people of God who has not experienced the love of God Himself. We just read, Beloved, let us love one another for love is of God, and everyone that loves is born of God and knows God.

That's where we began. Love for the people of God is evidence that a person has been born again and that they truly know God. In other words, what we learned was this. Love for the people of God is evidence that you're saved. Those who truly love God's people give evidence that they've been born of God and that they truly know God.

On the other hand, John goes on in verse 8, he that loveth not knoweth not God. That's very simply put in the negative. John is saying if a person doesn't really love the people of God, it's because they haven't been born of God. They don't know God. They haven't been born of God, nor do they know God.

God's nature and His character is pure, unbounded, infinite love, and if a person truly knows God, it will be reflected in his or her love for the people of God. John went on, and this was manifested the love of God toward us because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him. By this, John is saying God's love was demonstrated to us and that He sent His only begotten Son, His only Son by nature into the world that we who were dead in trespasses and sins might live. Here in His love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Here in His love that we loved God, not that we loved God, but that He loved us before time began.

And in time, sent His Son into the world to save us by laying down his life a sacrifice for sin. John's making a case here. Look at what Jesus did for you. How then could you not love those that were born of God, your brothers and sisters in the Lord? Before time began, God, because of His great love for us, sent His Son into the world to save us by laying down his life a sacrifice, hang on to that word, for sin, to appease his just anger for our sin, to satisfy the demands of divine justice on our behalf.

And then in verse 11, look what he says, "'Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.'" This was the foundation that we laid so many weeks ago for the one another's of scriptures. If Jesus did, if God so loved us that He sent His only begotten Son and sacrificed Him for us. Shouldn't we also love one another? Doesn't it just make sense that that would be naturally what follows? If God so loved us that He sent His Son to die for us, should we not also love our fellow Christians for whom He died?

If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. And the one another's of scripture show us what that love looks like in the lives of the people of God. So we have the foundation, He loved us, we should love one another. And then we have in Scripture, the one another's of Scripture, which show us what that love looks like. And the first one we looked at was the command to love our brothers and sisters and the Lord as Christ loved us.

We're to love our neighbor in the world as ourself. Everybody's got that, right? Love your neighbor as yourself. Even the world kinda likes that one. It's in popular secular movies even.

But we are to love the members of the family of God as Christ loved us. Which is far greater. Because it is a self-sacrificing love. God sent his son into the world to die for us. Should we not also love one another?

It is a self-sacrificing love. We are to love as Christ also loved us. Love the members of the family of God as Christ also loved us. With a self-sacrificing love, that's hard, isn't it? That's difficult.

It goes against our nature. But now we are partakers of the nature of God and so it begins to flow from us. The second one another we looked at was in Galatians 6 2 where Paul writes, bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. The call of God upon the family of God is to bear one another's burdens. And the law of love is fulfilled in us when we come under the load with family members in Christ and share their trials and their burdens with them.

You know, I said in that sermon on this one several weeks ago, laying aside our own burdens, sometimes this involves laying aside our own burdens many times to share the load being borne by our brothers and sisters in Christ. We may need to say at times, you know I have many pressing burdens at present, but here's this brother, here's this sister in the Lord who's carrying a heavier load. I'm going to set my burden down for a moment and get under their load with them. I'm going to help him, I'm going to help her. And I noted that though we are to bear one another's burdens of every kind, in the context that the passage is given, it's the context of a brother or sister who has stumbled into sin.

It's Galatians 6-2, right? Galatians 6-1. And it's someone who's been overtaken in a fault. And it's talking about how we should seek to restore him or restore her to help that brother or sister get to their to their feet again. To restore that family member in a spirit of meekness that that family member in Christ in a spirit of meekness and a spirit of gentleness.

Considering he says that we ourselves also are weak and vulnerable, lest we also be tempted. Brothers and sisters, have you ever stumbled? Was someone in the body of Christ aware of your stumbling? Did that person help to restore you in a spirit of meekness and gentleness? And help you get to your feet again?

Wasn't that a blessing? Maybe it was a son or a daughter, maybe it was a mother or a father, maybe it was a brother or a sister, maybe it's just a friend in the church. They helped you get to your feet again. Then we looked at 1 Thessalonians 4 18 and the command to comfort one another. Wherefore, comfort one another with these words, Paul writes, believers are commanded to comfort their fellow Christians in their times of trial, in their hour of affliction, and in their days of adversity.

How? Paul says by reminding them that Christ is one day coming back for them and of their future resurrection to glory, to which no trial on earth can be compared. The darkest valley any of us will ever walk through can last no longer than a lifetime. In comparison to eternity, it will be like a single night. The psalmist said in Psalm 30, weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

There is a bright morning coming for the Christian that will shatter every vestige of darkness. When the dead in Christ, Paul says, will rise first, and we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord." And Paul says, comfort one another with those words, with these words. Paul says, our brothers and sisters in Christ need the comforting words of Christ's return. And so many times, they're the only words that will bring comfort because the valley is so deep, so dark, and no light seen at the other end. Sometimes Our brothers and sisters can only be comforted by the words of Christ's return for them and of their future resurrection to glory.

Then we look at Romans chapter 12 and verse 10 of the call to prefer one another, be kindly affection one to another with brotherly love, Paul says, in honor, preferring one another. Kindness and affection for our brothers and sisters in the Lord should mark our way as we seek in honor to prefer one another. The word the apostle used here translated prefer means to lead the way. He is encouraging us to lead the way in this, and it's a Christ-like virtue to lead the way in honoring others before ourselves. I know that the ESV puts it to outdo one another in showing honor.

But if we would do that, if we would lead the way in showing honor to our brothers and sisters in Christ, something has to happen naturally, it has to happen first. Our estimation of ourselves must decrease, and our estimation of them increase. There has to be a kind of a blow to our pride sometimes. In Philippians chapter two and verse three we read, let nothing be done through strife or vain glory, but in lowliness of mind. Let each esteem other better than themselves.

Again if our estimation of others is higher than our estimation of ourselves, it's easy to love them and to share their burdens with them and to comfort them in their time of trial or adversity. And it's coming for every one of us. I know my Bible commentary says humility accepts a place of service, a lower place and a place of service, which brought us to the command of scripture to serve one another. In Galatians 5 13, Paul says, "'By love, serve one another.' Jesus said, the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve. In John chapter 13, he girded himself with a towel and got on his knees and washed the feet of the saints.

And he said, for I've given you an example that you should do as I have done unto you. Christ's example in foot washing isn't that we should go to each other's houses and say, hey, can you take your shoes off and please let me give you a foot bath. It's an example that teaches us that nothing should be considered beneath us. Please grasp that. I remember in high school when I had an after school job and I was a janitor cleaning 26 bathrooms full of toilets every night.

Not 26 toilets, 26 bathrooms full of toilets every night. And I remember one of the men, one of the janitors there, he said, there's no job beneath anyone. Always stuck with me. Christ's example in foot washing teaches us that nothing should be considered beneath us when it comes to serving one another. Nothing.

I remember a story of the hymn writer Fanny Crosby who was blind and during the plague of London Was daily washing the pots full of regurgitation. If I then, being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, Jesus said, ye also ought to wash one another's feet. The servant is not greater than his Lord. Then I read from Paul's words in Ephesians, Chapter four, where he admonishes us as the children of God, the walk worthy of the vocation wherewith we've been called with all lowliness and meekness and with long suffering and forbearing with long suffering forbearing one another in love that means putting up with a lot from each other because of our love for them endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace. In this passage, we're commanded with all humility and gentleness and with much patience to show forbearance one to another in love.

To forbear is to exercise patience and indulgence. It's a ceasing or restraining from action. It makes allowance for others' faults because of our love for them. You know, you also have faults. I also have faults.

Others are glaring, right? Ours are sometimes hard to see. It endures pain and annoyance with self-control, as my commentary put it. It pulls the reins on the tongue and applies the brake pedal on our actions. It responds in humility with understanding and exercises patience and self-control while enduring the infirmities and the weaknesses of others in the body of Christ, making every effort, Paul says, to maintain the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace, which brought us to Romans 14, 19, and the command to edify one another, to build one another up.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may edify another. Remember, I said this was Paul's response to a controversy that had arisen in the early church concerning the eating of meat. It sounds kind of funny to us today. There were these believers who ate meat and those who believed they were to eat only vegetables and they're butting heads together. And the issue was that those who didn't eat meat judged those who did and those who ate meat despised those who didn't.

I actually heard of a church recently where there was a similar controversy in the church even in the modern day. There are people that are vegetarians and they were upset with these. They were upset with the ones that ate meat and the meat eaters didn't like the vegetarians. At any rate, Paul was concerned for those on both sides of the issue. He wanted them to walk charitably with love one toward another.

It isn't a sin to eat meat. It isn't a sin not to eat meat. It was a matter of indifference. In other words, an issue where there was no law of God binding the conscience one way or the other. In 1st Corinthians chapter 8, in a similar controversy, some Christians were disassociating themselves from fellow Christians who bought and ate meats that were sold in the markets that had previously been offered to idols.

They said, we can't eat that meat. It's been offered to idols. You can't do that. Our consciences are bound. It's offered to idols.

We can't buy that meat. We can't eat that meat. These brothers were convinced that to eat that meat was a sin. Paul says, no, an idol is nothing. It isn't a sin to buy the meat, it isn't a sin to eat the meat.

But if the weaker brother is emboldened to eat that meat, the weaker brother who thinks it's a sin, he's convinced it's a sin to do so, even though the thing is not a sin in practice. He sins against his conscience. Don't embolden him to do that. So Paul tells the more mature believers not to glory in their liberty. You've got liberty in Christ, but don't flaunt it in the face of your brothers and sisters in Christ, but to abstain in the presence of the weaker brethren so as not to put a stumbling block in their way.

It's lawful, Paul told them, but it isn't expedient because it doesn't edify, it doesn't build them up. The apostles teaching on both issues were essentially the same. The weaker brethren shouldn't impose their opinions on concerning things indifferent on others in the church where there's no law binding the conscience one way or the other. And the more mature believers shouldn't flaunt their freedom in the face of the weaker brethren. I quoted at length from Dr.

Sproul's sermon, The Tyranny of the Weaker Brother, where he says, how many Christians have been taught that it is sinful to do things that God has not declared sinful? This applies to so many things in our world today, and throughout Christian history. They've been told that some matters indifferent are not actually indifferent. How do you deal with the weaker brother? Do you laugh at him?

Do you jump on him with criticism, Sproul says? Or do you respect their consciences and say, look, I know you have the scruple and I don't want to make you stumble and entice you to do something that you're convinced is a violation of the law of God. This is what Paul was willing to do in 1st Corinthians 8, 9 through 13. He said, I'll give up meat to the end of the world. That's what it takes.

If a person has a scruple I did not share, Sproul says, and it's a scruple unto the Lord, then I have to bend over backwards to be caring and not flaunt my liberty in their face. I should do the act that is indifferent, but offends another brother or another believer in private. Our freedom in Christ is not an autonomy whereby we can do anything we feel like doing. It must be accompanied by a charitable sensitivity towards those who have scruples, says Sproul. But then he goes to the other side.

What happens when the weaker brother wants to elevate their personal scruple to a level of a moral standard for all Christians, for all Christianity? What do we do then, Sproul says? Well, here the weaker brother begins to take a personal scruple and bind the consciences of people and destroy Christian liberty. Once a person tries to make his scruple the rule of the church, then he must not be allowed to enforce a law where God has set us free. We must apply the gospel wisely and in love so that we might be patient with those young in the faith but at the same time we cannot let the weaker brother impose his view or his scruples on others." Close quote where there's no law binding the conscience.

Again, this applies to so many things in our world today. Paul's teaching is that Christians should always be aiming for peace in the body and pursuing the things that tend to peace and the mutual building up of one another. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, Paul says, and things whereby one may edify another, which brought us to Romans 15, 7, receive one another. Receive one another. Wherefore receive you one another as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

Do you break fellowship with others over non-essentials? Do you break fellowship with other believers over minor matters? Do you refuse to keep company with those you consider to be less spiritually mature than you are? I note in my Bible commentary it says, Christ received us as sinners to the glory of God's grace so we ought to open heartedly receive imperfect saints. We're also imperfect.

You know, we look at others and we say, well, that person's got imperfections. You know, look in the mirror and ask God to show you yours. We should rebuke blatant sin and rebellion. This note also in my Bible goes on to say we should rebuke blatant sin and rebellion but should exercise restraint and gentleness towards those young in the faith and those who need encouragement in the ways of the Lord rather than condemning them for every defect arising from ignorance or a misguided conscience. Take it easy.

It's basically what he's saying. Take it easy on others. The love of God for his children is the same whether they're weak or strong, more mature spiritually or less mature spiritually. God doesn't love the one more than the other and neither should we. We must embrace all those whom Christ has embraced.

All those whom Christ has embraced. No matter where they're at in their walk. No matter where they're at in their walk. No matter where they're at in their walk or where we think they're at in their walk. And then we looked at hospitality.

First Peter four nine use hospitality without grudging. It's a qualification I said of pastors and first Timothy three two, but it's a requirement of every believer. The Greek word that Paul uses is to be fond, that means to be fond of guests and strangers and he uses the word here with regards to the people of God. Some churches have members who really don't know each other. Most churches have members who don't really know each other.

One of the reasons church members don't know each other is because they only see each other on Sunday. They live as acquaintances but not members of the same family. Many of them have never had anyone in their church in their home, nor have they been invited into the home of any other member. But when we open our homes one to another, we practice hospitality one to another. Paul says use it, that is practice it without grudging.

Show hospitality one to another without grumbling, one version puts it. Another translation says open your homes to one another without complaining. But think about that for a moment. Why the qualification to show hospitality one to another without grudging or grumbling or complaining? I think the previous verse answers the question.

Paul proceeds the call to hospitality when the people of God in verse 8 with a call to love and forgiveness. Above all, he says have fervent charity among yourselves that is fervent love among yourselves for love covers the multitude of sins. Now be hospitable. No one will use hospitality in a grudging or kind of a reluctant, I don't really want to be doing this kind of way if love is the motivating factor. The kind of love that covers the multitude of sins.

That is the kind of love that forgives minor offenses, which are the multitude of causes for which churchgoers avoid one another. That's minor stuff. When we don't forgive minor offenses, they become grudges. And when we hold grudges against members of God's family, we typically express it by avoiding fellowship with them. Fervent charity or love covers the multitude of sins because the multitude of sins are petty minor irritations, which brought us to the call to forgive one another, Ephesians 432.

And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you, so we are to forgive one another. We looked at Matthew 18, Peter comes to Jesus, looking for some clarification on this thing about forgiving brothers. And he says, how often shall my brother sin against me? And I still got to forgive him. Like seven times?

No, not seven times. Four hundred and ninety times. Seventy times seven. Forgiveness of offense is committed against us by fellow believers is a commandment of Christ. To forgive something means to literally to hurl it away.

Just imagine taking something you see as being thrown end over end away. Our sins for Christ's sake have been hurled away into the sea of forgetfulness. Will we hold sins against others? Some do it in their marriages, their own family life. Colossians 3.13 says, if any man has a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

Drop the quarrel, the quarrel. John Gill comments here, he forgives as God has forgiven him, so as to forget the injury done to him and remembers it no more. And having once forgiven it, he thinks of it no more. End quote. Is that you?

You hurl it away into a sea of forgetfulness. I'm not holding anything against you at all. I will not hold anything against anyone at all. Can you imagine going into your prayers seeking God's favor for yourself, your marriage, your family, your work, whatever, going before the Lord and asking his forgiveness for various sins that you've committed, but you won't forgive your brother or sister in Christ? Jesus said in the Gospel of Luke, if my brother comes to me saying, I repent, I must forgive him.

Okay. But what if he doesn't? That's always the next question, right? What what if he doesn't come to me and ask my forgiveness? You know, I Think that forgiveness is a disposition of the heart also where we're just disposed to forgive others because Christ has forgiven us.

But you know if something rises to the level where you say this is necessary for them then it probably will rise to the level where confrontation is required in the Matthew 18 process, possibly leading to church discipline, but if it doesn't rise to that level, hurl it away. Love covers the multitude of sins, because the multitude of offenses are petty, minor offenses and irritations that every one of us in tongue intentionally commits. Sometimes, you know what is needed? Sometimes you just need to exhort or encourage your brother or sister in the right direction. Which brings us to Hebrews 3.13, exhort one another daily while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

That's describing concern for a brother or sister, not the act of getting something off my chest. I just need to get this off my chest. No, that's not what it's describing. I care about this brother or sister. I'm going to exhort him or her.

This is something that's not good, and I feel like I need to bring this to you for your good. Not because I'm irritated with you, not because I've got something I want to get off my chest, but because I love you. And I want to encourage you to obedience in a closer walk with the Lord. In relationship, if you have a relationship that's strained, you haven't been able to let go of something, go to that brother or sister in Christ and talk. A lot of things go south, you know, in letters and emails and texts that are quickly resolved in face-to-face meetings.

And then finally in our last session we looked at the command of Scripture to pray for one another. Pray for one another. Really, really pray for one another. Isn't it an encouragement in the times over the last weeks, maybe years, where you're going through something in your family, in your work, in your health, and you hear, my brothers and sisters are praying for me. They're praying for me.

It's such an encouragement. It's such an encouragement to know that someone's praying for you. Chris Keys and I, when we were at the emergency room for 12 hours this past week at Temple, 150 people went through that emergency room while we were there for 12 hours and we got to share the gospel with people and we got to pray. And there was a nurse who was taking information on a little roll-around computer and she came up once we had gotten into the final stage of seeing a doctor and she pulled up next to us and she's asking questions and everything and we're asking questions and somehow it starts coming out you know what she's going through in her life and it's almost one o'clock in the morning and she's a young mother with a four-year-old and a six-year-old and she's not married and she's working until she's working the late shift and we find out you know I asked her if she's a believer, she says yes. And I asked her if she was going to church, yes, she said yes.

And as we're talking with her, she goes to tears. She says, will you pray for me? Yes, we'll pray for you. Yes, we'll pray for you. And we prayed, the church prayed for her on Wednesday night when we gathered for prayer.

Pray for one another. Pray for one another. I labored the fact, you know, early on this in the New Year's message that we're commanded of God to get alone with God in prayer, in private prayer, And that we are, we're commanded that in Matthew 6, and then after the example of Christ, we see that Jesus gave us the example that that was morning prayer. Jesus commands us to pray in secret in Matthew 6 to get alone with God and pray, go into your closet and pray to your Father who is in secret. And then Mark 1.35, Jesus gave us an example to start our day that way.

Pray in the morning, he said. Well, he said by example. Jesus went out to a secluded place and he prayed. So we have this command to get alone with God, and then we have this example to do it before we do anything else in the morning. And then in the prayer he gave us, as a model prayer, he said, give us this day, it's daily.

Give us this day our daily bread. Here's what I want you to pray. So get alone with God every day in prayer. Do it the first part of your day. Do it in a secluded place, you know, your closet or wherever Jesus went out somewhere, had no place to lay his head, and then pray to your Father in secret, pray in the morning before you do anything else like Jesus did, and then do it every day.

Give us this day, our daily bread. So it's just very, very clear we're to get up in the morning and pray to God before we do anything else in a secluded place, and we're to do it every day. It's very, very clear from the teaching of scripture. And I encouraged everyone to add to their daily morning prayer time, alone with God before they do anything else, prayers for their brothers and sisters in Christ, pray for one another. Pray for one another.

I said, what an amazing thing it would be if every member of this church no matter what 2024 looked like resolved in 2025 I'm doing this. I've been putting this off. I've gotten off track. I'm doing this. Can you imagine the change in this church?

The change in your family life and then can you imagine the asset? It will be to your brothers and sisters in Christ if you add them to that daily morning prayer in seclusion with God every day. Pray for one another. We read in James 5 16 that you may be healed. We pray for those who are sick.

And when we're sick, they pray for us. Romans 12 five says, being many, we are one body in Christ and everyone members of another. And I said it's no mystery that Paul says in 1st Corinthians 12, when one member of the body suffers, the whole body suffers with it. When you all have had situations where you put that prayer request out there and the church hears it, they're suffering with you. There's a measure of suffering that is experienced by the body of Christ when one member suffers, just like when you stub your toe and you feel it in your head or somewhere all through your body.

So the whole body suffers with it. When one part of the body hurts, the whole body endures a sense of their pain. 1st Corinthians 12, 25, the members of Christ's body should have the same care for one for another. Whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it. Oh, don't you feel that?

Just sense that. Just suffer with others. It just breaks your heart. Maybe they're going through something on the job or in their family or relationships or sickness or health concerns. Just breaks your heart.

Just breaks your heart. So being so much one we should pray for one another. We should pray for one another. Ephesians 425 says, we are all members one of another, of one heart and one soul, Acts 432. And we should, as Paul says in Philippians 2, 4, look beyond ourselves and our own interests and also to the interests and concerns of others, being concerned not only for our own things but also for the things of others.

So I encouraged communion with God and prayer every morning before we do anything else because it not only sets the course for a blessed day it changes everything in the course of our day. And if it changes everything in the course of our day And you know it does if you practice this, it changes everything in the course of your day. Nothing can go the same when you start off with daily morning private prayer alone with God. Your day cannot go the way it would have gone. It's impossible.

Think also about how that could be such an asset for your brothers and sisters in Christ. Their day is not going to go the same either. Why? You lifted them up. You lifted them up in prayer.

They didn't even know it. They didn't see you on your knees, crying out to God for them. God heard and things changed for them. And their day went different than it would have gone. Our marriages, our families, our work, our afflictions, our trials, our temptations, our emotional state, everything goes in a different direction when our knees hit the floor every morning in obedience to Jesus before we do anything else, and we should consider extending that blessing to our brothers and sisters in Christ by lifting them up in prayer.

Will you commit to that today as we close to add to your morning secret communion with God, prayers for the people in this room many of them are already doing it for you will you lay down a few minutes of your life for your brothers and sisters in Christ life is short We need to pray for one another. As I closed last week, I said that we're to pray for the physical well-being and financial needs and health related needs of our brethren. The things that we're to pray for them for by no means to be limited to temporal things. In Ephesians chapter 3, Paul gave us an example. We read it when we started here.

I bow my knees. I bow my knees before God. I humbly go to my knees before God in prayer for you, for my brothers and sisters in Christ. He prayed for their spiritual well-being. We should be praying for their spiritual well-being and their spiritual prosperity and their spiritual health as well.

So as we close here this series on the one another's of scripture let us be mindful to love as Christ loved, to bear one another's burdens, to honor one another, to be kindly affectioned one toward another, preferring one another. And let us be patient with one another and compassionate to one another and esteem others in the body better than ourselves and look out for the interests of one another and forbear with one another and comfort one another and encourage one another and exhort one another and show hospitality one toward another and be at peace one with another and build one another up and receive one another and care for one another and serve for one another and forgive one another even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven us and last but not least to pray for one another. In a word let us let us love one another even as Jesus has loved us. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for your word and We pray that you would apply it in all the things, God, that we have heard this day in the last several weeks.

You would apply it to our hearts and our lives. For we ask it in Jesus name, amen.