Back to 1 John 3. Verse 11 says, This is the message
that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. You know, when we were first
given spiritual discernment, to hear, to really hear the message. The first word we heard, the
first message we heard was of Christ, the elder brother, coming
forth and loving his brethren by laying down his life for us. That was the first thing we heard
when God gave us spiritual discernment. The whole gospel is the message
of brotherly love. Christ, the firstborn among many
brethren, and how He manifests the love of God by laying down
His life to put away our sin and to make us holy, to make
us righteous, so that God can receive us. Holy God can receive
us. That's our message, is the message
of brotherly love. Christ's love for His people. And so it says, we should love
one another, not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew
his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because
his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. Marvel
not, my brethren, if the world hate you. I've titled this, Love
Not As Cain. Now there are only two kinds
of people in the world and there's only two religions in the world. There is the children of the
devil who trust that salvation is by the will and works of the
sinner. And then there's children of
God who believe that salvation is by the works of God, by the
works of Christ Jesus our Lord whose righteousness is given
to us freely through faith in Him. And that's apart from our
works. There's only two kinds of people
in the world, Cain and Abel. There's the religion of works
and the religion of grace. And that is the two kinds of
religion. Now, when he speaks here of love
for brethren, it's nothing like what the religious world speaks
about. The religious world is always
talking about love for brethren, but it's a sentimental passion
and it's patterned after depraved men. It's the sentimental passion
of depraved men and it's patterned after the pattern of depraved
men. That's not the love we're talking
about when we talk about the love of God. Love which is of
God is unfamed love. There's no hypocrisy in it. It's
a real love from a pure heart that God's given by creating
us anew in righteousness and true holiness. It's true love. Now, I kind of think John might
be contrasting the two, the child of God and the child of the devil
here, And here's what I mean. He says here, of the child of
God, he says, this is the message you heard from the beginning
that we should love one another. And he's contrasting that with
the child of the devil. Because you remember Christ said
in John 8, you are of your father the devil and the lusts of your
father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning
and a bow not in the truth. There's no truth in him. We hear
the love of Christ from the beginning and we're told love one another
from the beginning but the child of the devil is of their father
who is a murderer from the beginning. So that's what's in the heart
of the child of the devil. So what I want to do tonight
is see what we can learn about the unfeigned love of God, of
the children of God by contrasting the hatred of Cain towards Abel
with the love of God's children. We'll do a contrast here. We'll
see, he says, not as Cain, so we'll look and see how Cain hated
Abel and however that is the love of God. It's the opposite
of that. Alright, let's look first of all. Love is of God. Love is of God and is contrasted
with hate which is of the devil. Look here in verse 11. This is
the message you heard from the beginning that we should love
one another not as Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his
brother. The child of the devil is like
Cain. Cain was of the devil. He was
of that wicked one. And so he did what his father
did. Christ said he was a murderer
from the beginning. And so Cain slew his brother. He murdered his brother. The
devil and his children hate Christ and his children. The devil and
his children hate Christ and they hate the church. That's
what we find. Go to Genesis 3.15. Right after sin entered the world
and the curse came upon us, this is what God said to the devil.
He said in verse 15, I will put enmity between thee and the woman. The woman is the church. The
church. I will put enmity between thee
and the woman and between thy seed and heresy, that is between
the devil's children and between Christ who came through the church.
So there is enmity there. It shall bruise thy head, thou
shalt bruise his heel. The devil bruised the heel of
Christ in the process Christ bruised the head of the devil.
So not being born of the Word of God, the child that is not
born of the Word of God the child of the devil, his desire is to
kill Christ. And why does he desire to kill
Christ? It's because he hates Christ. He hates Christ. He would kill
Christ because he hates Christ. But he can't get to Christ, so
he takes out his hatred upon the child of God, those that
believe. In John 8.37, I want you to look
at this. John 8.37. Listen to what Christ said right
here. He said, I know you are Abraham's
natural sons, but I watch this, but ye seek to kill me, and here
is why. My Word hath no place in you. That's why. Look down at verse
42. He said, If God were your Father,
you would love Me. You would love Me. Because I
proceeded forth and came from God, neither came I of Myself,
but He sent Me. So here's the contrast between
Cain's hatred, the contrast of Cain's hatred We see what unfeigned
love of brethren comes from. First of all, unfeigned love
is of God. Cain's hatred was of the devil.
Unfeigned love is of God. Cain's hatred was because he
was born a natural son and kept under the power of the devil.
Unfeigned love comes because we are born of God. Born of the
Holy Spirit of God. He said, Christ said, if God
were your Father, if you were born of God and He was your Father,
you would love Me. So unfeigned love, first of all,
is toward Christ and it's from being born of God. And then thirdly,
He says here, it's from being born of incorruptible seed. Christ
said, the reason you don't love Me, and My Word has no place
in you. You haven't been born of My Word
and My Word has no place in you. But for the child of God being
born of that incorruptible seed, there's where the unfeigned love
comes from, from being born of Him. So the child of God is like
Abel. Now let's go back here in 1 John
3 and let's look at Abel. Abel was of God. He was of God. He was chosen of God, redeemed
of God, born of God. And therefore, we love our brethren
who are born of God. Well, let me just give this to
you. Hebrews 11 verse 4 says, By faith Abel offered a more
excellent sacrifice than Cain. It was by faith. And we are only
given faith one way. That is to be born of God. Be
born again of God. and given faith as a gift. Well, that's exactly how unfeigned
love is given. We have to be born of God and
it's given to us as a gift. Go back over there again to 1
Peter 1 and look again right here at
verse 22. He says, seeing you have purified
your souls and obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned
love of the brethren. Unfeigned, non-hypocritical,
there is no guile. Remember Christ said to Nathaniel,
there is an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile. Blessed
is the man to whom God will not impute sin and in whose spirit
there is no guile. No hypocrisy. We're not talking
here about love that you and I have to do something to produce
it. We're talking about something
that's the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit,
he said in Galatians 5, is love. And when God's created a new
man in you, that new man is created in righteousness and true holiness. And in that new man there is
no God. He says here, Your souls are
purified in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned
love of the brethren. So you love one another with
a pure heart fervently, being born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God which liveth
and abideth forever. Go over to 1 John 5 and look
at verse 1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus
is the Christ is born of God. There's the faith that he gives
from being born of God. But something else accompanies
faith and that's love. And everyone that loveth Christ
that begat, loveth our brother also that is begotten of him. This is a gift of the fruit of
the Spirit, a gift of the Spirit just like faith is. When we are
born of God, for the first time we believe on Christ and we love
Christ. And we love our brethren. Unfeigned
love comes from being born, it comes from being of God the Father,
you are a child of the Father, it comes from being born of God,
it comes from being born of the incorruptible Word of God. The first brother we love when
we are born of God, the first brother we love is the brother
we hated, the Lord Jesus Christ. We are brought to Him and we
cast all our care on Him because we are begotten of Him and then
we love all other brethren who are born of Him because we are
all of one. Remember Hebrews 2 said, Christ
is not ashamed to call us brethren because we're all of one. We're
of Christ. He that does the sanctifying
and those that are sanctified are all of one. Go to Hebrews
4, look at verse 3. He tells us here, with all lowliness
and meekness, with long-suffering, forbear one another in love. Here's what believers try to
do. Here's what we endeavor to do
right here by the Spirit of God. Endeavoring to keep the unity
of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Now here's what I mean
when I say we're all of one. Look here. There's one body.
one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling,
we have one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and
Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all.
There are seven things. That is the number of perfection.
There are seven ways we are one, right there. We are perfectly
one in Christ Jesus. God's people are. just like a
body with all the members in it. And as Paul says in another
place, when one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.
Your whole body can be fine and nothing is wrong with your body.
And you have a sore tooth and all you can think about is that
sore tooth. The whole body can be fine and one member be in
trouble and the whole body suffers over that one member. Isn't that
right? Because we're one. We're one. Now secondly, go back to our
text. The child of the devil hates
the child of God because his works are evil and the child
of God's works are righteous. 1 John 3.12 Wherefore slew he
him? Why did Cain murder Abel? because his own works were evil
and his brother's righteous. Now get that. Cain's works were
evil and his brother's righteous. This is why he slew him. We're
not talking about his evil work of murdering his brother yet.
We're saying this is why he murdered his brother. Because his works
were evil. Let's go see again. Genesis 4.
What was it Cain did? What did he do? Genesis 4, His
works were evil. You know what He did? He did
what John has been talking about. He did not righteousness. He was one who doeth not righteousness. What did He do? Verse 3, In process
of time it came to pass that Cain brought the fruit of the
ground and offering unto the Lord. That's what he did. That's all he did. Cain came
before God expecting to be accepted of God by bringing the works
of his own hands. He brought the fruit of the ground
with no blood. With no blood. And there's a
very important picture here. You remember, God cursed the
ground. He cursed the ground. And Cain
brings to God fruit that had been produced from the cursed
ground. And that's what you and I do
if we try to come to God with works that's been produced by
our flesh. We're coming to Him with fruit
from the cursed ground. From the cursed ground. And God
won't receive that. So Cain's works were evil. He
did not believe on Christ. That's the picture there. He
didn't believe on Christ. He was one that does not righteousness. That's what John means by doing
not righteousness. Not believing on Christ. Why
is it called that? Because like we saw, it's a transgression
against God the Father and God the Son. God the Father said,
ìThis is My Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye Him.î Christ
said, ìThis is the work of God that you believe on Him whom
He sent.î So to deny the Son is to deny the Father. John said
earlier, back over in 1 John 2 verse 4, he said, ìHe that
saith, ìI know Him,î and keepeth not His commandments, His commandments
are, ìbelieve on the name of His Son that He sent, and love
one another.î The man can say, I know him, but he doesn't rest
in Christ alone. He doesn't love his brethren.
John said he's a liar and the truth is not in him. The Word's
not in him. And in verse 23, he said, Whosoever
denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. He's transgressed
and he's not abiding in the doctrine of Christ. And John said in his
second epistle, the man that transgresses and abideth not
in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. That's the first thing.
That's why it's called doing not righteousness. It's a transgression
against God the Father and God the Son not to believe on Christ.
And then we saw this, it's also a transgression against the whole
law of God. John said there in verse 4, 1
John 3 verse 4, Whosoever committed sin transgresseth also the law,
for sin is the transgression of the law. Whoever apostatizes
and rejects Christ, he's under the curse still. He's under the
law still. He transgresses the whole law
of God. Abel's works were the exact opposite.
The exact opposite. Believer, our works are the exact
opposite of that. It says his brother's works were
righteous. Go back to Genesis 4 and look
at verse 4. What did Abel do? What's the
one thing Abel did here? Abel was one who does righteousness. What did he do? Genesis 4, verse 4, and Abel, he also brought
that he brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. Abel came in the blood of a substitute
lamb. Abel came confessing he was a
sinner and that he had to be represented by a substitute. He had to have a substitute die
in his place. It's the only way he could come
to God. That's coming to God through faith in Christ. That's
doing righteousness. It's the exact opposite of to
do not righteousness. Go back over there to 1 John
2 and look at this. He said, verse 4, He that saith,
I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and
the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, believing
on the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and loving his brethren,
in him, verily, is the love of God perfected. The love of God
brought Him there. Remember? The love of God brought
Him to that end to bring Him to believe on Christ and love
His brethren. Hereby know we that we're in
Him. Look at verse 23. Whosoever denieth
the Son, the same hath not the Father. But the exact opposite. But he that acknowledgeth the
Son, he hath the Father also. And so over in 2 John, go over
there with me. 2 John 1 and verse 9. Contrasting. This is just the
opposite of Cain. Look here. 2 John 1, 9. Whosoever
transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath
not God. But he that abideth in the doctrine
of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. That's how Abel's
works were righteous. That's right. And so believing
on Christ, he didn't transgress the law. You know what he did?
He fulfilled the whole law of God. The law hadn't even been
given at Mount Sinai. But he fulfilled the whole law
of God through Christ, the last Adam. His surety. He was perfectly righteous. Now, look at God's response.
Go back to Genesis 4 and look at verse 4. This is what stirred up that
wrath in Cain and made him kill his brother. What's the opposite of that?
Stir up love and make you love your brother? Everything that makes the child
of the devil, stirs up his enmity and makes him hate the child
of God, it stirs up love in us and makes us love one another.
Look here, Genesis 4.4. And the Lord had respect unto
Abel and to his offering. But unto Cain and to his offering
he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth and his
countenance fell. You know when your countenance
falls, You can't hide it. Whenever there is something wrong
in the heart, the countenance falls, the sin is written all
over His face. You just see it. And Cain's countenance
fell. And look at this. The Lord said
unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen?
Now listen to what He says. If thou doest well, you know
what He just said? If you do righteousness. If you
believe on Christ. If you come in the blood of the
Lamb, shalt thou not be accepted? That's exactly what it says.
If you do righteousness, if you believe on Christ, you'll be
accepted. Why? Remember John said, little
children, let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness,
he that believes on Christ, he's righteous even as Christ is righteous. That's why God said, if you do
well, you'll be accepted. Look at here. And if thou doest
not well, you keep coming with the fruit of the ground, the
works of your own hands, sin lies at the door. Sin lies at
the door. And unto thee shall be his desire
and thou shalt rule over him. That goes with believing on him.
He says if you believe on Christ, sin shall not have the dominion
over you. You are not under law, you are
under grace. If you reject Christ, it's because sin has got the
reign and the dominion over you. That's why. So Cain talked with
Abel, his brother. He heard this response from God.
So Cain, in enmity, his anger is stirred up within him. So
now he's out in the field and he meets Abel. And they're going
to talk. Cain wants to talk to him. And
I know right along the lines that this talk went, because
I've had this talk on many occasions. You have to if you know the Lord
with somebody that doesn't know Him and is religious. It goes
something like this. Abel, is this what I'm supposed
to believe? You're just better than everybody
else? So God chose you and Christ became
your surety and God accepted you just because you're better? And Abel answered him. I'm sure
Abel said, no, that's not it at all, brother. I am a sinner. I'm a vile, wicked sinner. The only thing that made the
difference is the grace of God. God did the choosing. I didn't love God. He loved me. He did the choosing. And He chose
me in His Son and Christ became my surety. And then He caused
me to be born of His Spirit and gave me faith and taught me this
gospel. We both sat there hearing our
father Adam preach this gospel and God opened my heart. I didn't
open it. I couldn't open it. I didn't
have a will to come how God says we should come. But God gave
me the heart to come. And I came through faith in Christ. I came with the blood of this
lamb because I need the woman's seed to die for me. Or else I
can't come to God. Because I'm a sinner. And you
that are born of God, you would hear that and that would stir
up your love for Christ. That would stir up your love
for Him. That would make you love Christ and make you love
everyone that's forgotten of Christ. What's the opposite of
that? Hearing that did nothing but
stir up more wrath in Cain's heart. It stirred up the wrath
because he declared, Abel declared, all the works are of God and
God gets all the glory. And that stirred up Cain's heart
more and more and more. And it says in Genesis 4 verse
8, And Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and he slew him.
Go back to 1 John 3. I'm going to show you this. I
pointed this out. Brother Art saw this, I know,
because we talked about it. But I don't know if everybody
got this. Look back here at 1 John 3 and verse 1. That word behold
means is knowing. Knowing. You know, He said if
you know, verse 29, if you know that He is righteous, that same
word know. If you know Christ is righteous,
you know everyone that doeth righteousness is born of Him.
And so we know what manner of love the Father has bestowed
upon us. That's our gospel. We declare
the manner of love, how He chose us freely, how He sent His Son
freely to redeem us so that we're justified freely by His grace. how He gave us the spirit of
adoption and made us to see we're His children and get all this
freely apart from our works, knowing what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the
sons of God. Therefore, therefore, the world knoweth us not because
it knew him not. You know how Christ said that?
He said, the world hates you because it hated me. See, the
very thing we declare that is where we're trying to say, no,
it's not me. It was nothing about me. It was
all the work of God. And we're trying to tell this
to somebody. And when you're younger in the
faith, you think, they're going to rejoice to hear this. They
can cease from their works and rest in Christ. And they're going
to rejoice to hear this. And you find out real quick,
it just makes them matter and matter and matter. telling them what manner of love
the Father has bestowed upon us, declares to them that all
their works are wicked works. And it makes them angry. It makes
them angry. Listen to this. Christ told the
Pharisees, I know you, you have not the love of God in you. How
did He know it? He said, I am come in my Father's
name and you receive me not. He said, I've come to do the
works that no man can do. I've come because God the Father
sent me to lay down my life to be satisfaction for the sins
of my people so I can bring my people to God righteous and holy
and without sin. That's what he's declaring. He
said, I've come in my Father's name and you received me not. That's how I know. That's how
I know the love of God is not in you. Cain hated Abel because
his own works were wicked and Abel's were righteous. That's
why. Now go to John 15. I want to show you this and I'm
going to start winding it down. John 15, 18. John said, We know what manner
of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called
the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth us
not because it knew him not. Now listen to what Christ said.
He is quoting Christ. This is how Christ said it. John
15, 18. If the world hate you, if the world hate you, you know
that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world,
the world would love its own. but because you are not of the
world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hateth you." There is the love of God that makes the reprobate
hate Christ and hate us. We declare God chose us. And
Christ came and He drew us out of the world, so we are not of
the world anymore. We are of God. Verse 20, ìRemember
the word that I said unto you, ìThe servantís not greater than
his lord.î If theyíve persecuted me, they will also persecute
you. If theyíve kept my saying, they
will keep yours also.î Thereís the love of God that the apostate
hates. That word comes and they receive
not the love of the truth that they might be saved. But that
very same word, that very same gospel caused us to be born again
and gave us unfamed love for Christ. Look at verse 21. But all these things will they
do unto you for My name's sake, because they know not Him that
sent Me. If I had not come and spoken
unto them, they had not had sin, but now they have no cloak for
their sin. There is the love of God bestowed
on His people that the child of the devil hates. This Word
came and stripped away all our false refuge and all our fig
leaves and exposed all our best works as nothing but sin. And
brought us to cry out for mercy. And that makes us love Christ.
That makes us rejoice that He did that for us. That makes us
take sides with Him against ourselves. But that makes the child of the
devil hate to hear this Gospel. Look at John 15, 23. He that
hateth me, hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them
the works which none other man did, they had not had sin, but
now they both sin and hated both me and my Father. There's the
love. That's the love. That's the love
that makes us love Him, and that's the love that makes the apostate
hate Him. He came, brethren, and fulfilled
the law and the prophets for His people. He came and did the
work that none of His people could do. Made us righteous. Established the law for us. But
see, that exposes all the works of the self-righteous man to
be nothing but sin. It makes all His works to be
nothing but sin. And declares if you don't rest
in Christ, you're under the curse. But see, where that stirs up
wrath in the child of the devil, it stirs up love in our heart,
makes us love Him. Verse 25, But this cometh to
pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in
their law, they hated Me without a cause. Unfeigned love is the
message we heard from the beginning. The message of how Christ came
forth and laid down His life for us. In this was manifested
the love of God toward us. Christ laid down His life for
us. That's what we heard. That's the first word you heard. That's the Gospel. That's why
we come to hear it. We come to hear the message of
love. But it's not this sentimental, silly mess that the world is
speaking about. They regard God as some old fellow
that he doesn't really like sin, but he just kind of winks at
it and he'll just pass it by. and he's not going to really
be harsh with anybody, that's not who God is. God says, I will
by no means clear the guilty. And so He said, this is love,
love's in Christ because the love of God is holy. He only
does what's holy. And He sent His Son to lay down
His life so that God might be judged to justify us. That's
the message of the gospel. And that stirs up love in your
heart, stirs up hatred in the child of the devil. The kindness
and love of God toward man appeared. Not by works of righteousness
we had done, but according to His mercy He saved us. By washing
of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which He shed
on us. We couldn't even come to Him.
Even once He had done the work, we couldn't hear it and come
to it. He shed on us. abundantly through Christ Jesus
that having justified us, we might be called and given the
spirit of adoption and make heirs of God according to the hope
of eternal life. Cain was filled with enmity because
his own works were evil and his brothers righteous. But that
same enmity You know how Christ... Go to Ephesians 2. I'll show
you one more thing and I'm finished. One more thing. Ephesians 2. You know how the Law of Commandments,
Scripture says that was the enmity between the Gentile and the Jew.
The Jew had the Law of Commandments and so he felt like he was more
holy than those Gentile dogs. because he didn't eat certain
things and he wore certain things and didn't wear other things
and just all these commandments, that made him hate the Gentile
because he felt like he was superior to the Gentile. And it was all
self-righteousness. He missed what God was telling
them through that law. He missed it. He thought he was
fulfilling it and keeping it like we saw Paul Sunday. He thought he was alive without
the law. He couldn't hear it. And that's what you and I will
do. That's what Cain and Abel did. Cain came and he thought
he was righteous by the work he did, but when he heard God
say Abel was righteous and Cain was not righteous, it made him
angry. But God sent His Son and Christ
took those law commandments out of the way. He fulfilled them
so that Jew and Gentile are no longer at enmity with each other. We're all one in Christ now.
Well, He does the same thing for all us, brethren. He makes
it so we can't use the law to exalt ourselves. We can't use
anything to exalt ourselves. Look here, Ephesians 2.14. Because
He is our peace, who has made both one and has broken down
the middle wall of partition between us, having abolished
in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained
in ordinances, for to make in Himself of two one new man, so
making peace. And that He might reconcile both
to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. You see that? He fulfilled the
law. Now none of us as believers can use the law to try to exalt
ourselves over each other. And look, He came and preached
peace to you which were far off and to them that were nigh and
through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father
so that now you are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens
with the saints and of the house of God. Just like He did that
between Jew and Gentile, His elect Jew and Gentile, He has
done that for all of us. We all are just worms. We know that. We're sinners.
And so we can't exalt ourselves. We can't get angry with our brethren. But at the same time, we know
this. We're righteous in Christ because of what Christ did. So
we have no reason to be filled with enmity. This is what fills
us, by God's grace, with the unfeigned love of brethren. And so what do we do? He said,
brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, if a brother in Christ
be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore
such a one in a spirit of meekness. Considering yourself, lest you
also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens
and so fulfill the law of Christ. That's what Christ did. He didn't
wait on us to do something to make ourselves lovable. And He's
telling us, don't you wait on your brother to do something
to make him lovable to you. You bear his burden. Just like
Christ bore all our sin and bore our punishment when as yet we
didn't love Him. Bear one another's burdens and
so fulfill the law of Christ. Because if we think ourselves
to be something, I can't believe they treated me that way. I can't
believe they did that to me. Well, who are you? Who am I to
think that? Don't be deceived, brethren,
because if you think yourself to be something when you're nothing,
that's all you're doing is deceiving yourself. And so brethren, he tells us
there at the end, don't marvel, don't be amazed if the world
hates you. You see why? You see what the
difference is? As soon as this world finds out
that you trust God and God's done everything to save you and
you attribute all the works to Him. He that will live godly
in this world shall suffer persecution. And the more religious a man
is, the more he's trusting his works, the more you're going
to suffer persecution. But you see why? It's because
God's given you that's true unfeigned love. To be born of God, born
of the Spirit, born of the Word. so that you see you're righteous
in Christ, your sin's put away, you have no reason to exalt yourself
over another, but you're righteous in Christ. So when your brother's
overtaken in a fall and he offends you, now you can just bear his
burden, remember what Christ did for you, and trust the Lord
to teach him, and trust the Lord to bring him back around. That's
all we can do. That's what we're supposed to
do. That's the law of Christ. That's the law of love. I pray
God bless you. Amen. All right, Brother Art.