Shalom everyone, so Ii wanted to come to you all with a topic that me and my husband were discussing in regards to loving one another. The Father YAH tells us throughout scripture to love Him and love our brothers and sisters and yet we come to a point where some of us have not reached that point. I wanted to share with you the scriptures we went over together as a reminder that we must love one another as YAH instructed us to do.
How can you say you love the Father and you don't love your brother? Anyone who says they love YAH and hate their brother is a liar (1 John 4:20).
You must first establish that you love YAH with all your heart, with all your might, and with all your being before you can learn how to truly love your brother and sister. It starts by Loving YAH and letting Him show you how love works.
Remember a tree is known by it's fruits, so you can't simply say "I love YAH" but your heart has hatred for your fellow brethren. You must repent of your hatred and ask the Father to cleanse you from within of any hatred you may be harboring within yourself. YAH loves us, so it's only fair that we return that love by loving eachother as He has commanded us.
How do you love your brother and sisters?
By telling them the truth
Showing hospitality toward your brother and sister
Making righteous conversation only with each other
Keeping each other encouraged in the Word of YAH
Praying for one another
Not allowing your brother and sister to stray from the truth
Keep in mind that YAH is watching and we must show Him that we are ready to be used as servants.
Here are some scriptures (including for me) to study and learn from. and you can also find the precepts to each of these scriptures as well
Galations 5:14
For the entire Torah is completed in one word, in this, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Mark 12:28-31
And One of the scribes coming near hearing them reasoning together, knowing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "which is the first command of all?"
And Yahoshua answered him, "The first of all the commands is, "Hear, O Yisrael, YAH our Elohim, ,YAH is one,
And you shall love YAH your Elohim with all your heart , and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength; this is the first command.
And the second, like it, is this, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself". There is no other command greater than these.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (The Greatest Gift)
1If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2And if I have prophecy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all belief, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am none at all.
3And if I give out all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, I am not profited at all.
4Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up,
5does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil,
6does not rejoice over the unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth,
7it covers all, believes all, expects all, endures all.
8Love never fails. And whether there be prophecies, they shall be inactive; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be inactive.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
10But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be inactive.
11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I did away with childish matters.
12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, as I also have been known.
13And now belief, expectation, and love remain - these three. But the greatest of these is love.
Hebrews 13:1
Let the brotherly love continue.
Romans 13:10
Love does no evil to a neighbor. Therefore, love is completion of the Torah.
1 John 4:8
The one who does not love does not know YAH, For YAH is love.
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers a multitude of transgressions.
John 14:15
if you love Me, You shall guard My commands.
I hope that this was a blessing to someone reading this post and may the Father continue to guide you in your walk with Him.
Shalom :)