Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
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and shuts up his heart from him, that literally could be translated, stops the fluttery feeling in his guts. Part of the way God leads us is through a fluttery feeling in our stomach that shows us, hey, this is an action I want you to take. You feel your emotions most pronounced, not in your heart, but in your guts. It's that rollercoaster feeling. It's that I love you feeling. It's that compassionate feeling. The Bible would say about Jesus often, based on his guts churning, he would preach to the people. Based on his gut, splenkinizomai is the word. That's a perfect word for that. Splenkinizomai. It means your stomach gets all messed up, and that's part of the way the Holy Spirit leads us. But if you feel that but don't do anything and don't do anything for your brother, how does the love of God abide in you? How is it you can say you love God if you shut that feeling down every time it happens? My little children, let us not just love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. …
God's word says so, that whoever hates his brother in his heart is a murderer, and no murderer has God's life abiding in him. See 1 John 3, verse 15. God's law talk showed Tim as it shows you and me that none of us have God's life living in us on our own no matter how good we look against society's shifting standards our thoughts, our actions, our talk falls short of God's eternal standard we've all turned away we've all fallen short like sheep we've gone astray God's law talk brings death to us all on this long green mile. But the law is not God's final word. Law talk is preparation for gospel talk, and God is dying to get this talk started with us. Or rather, God died to get it started. God showed his heart. He made his promise. undeserved grace, forgiveness, and life in the death and resurrection of Jesus for you. Now, maybe you're asking, if Tim was transformed by God's love, how could he stay in that job? …
3 . Say not then in your heart, “I was once baptized, therefore I am now a child of God.” Alas, that consequence will by no means hold. How many are the baptized gluttons and drunkards, the baptized liars and common swearers, the baptized railers and evil-speakers, the baptized whoremongers, thieves, extortioners? What think you? Are these now the children of God? Verily, I say unto you, whosoever you are, unto whom any one of the preceding characters belongs, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the works of your father ye do.” Unto you I call, in the name of Him whom you crucify afresh, and in his words to your circumcised predecessors, “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” 4. How, indeed, except ye be born again! For ye are now dead in trespasses and sins. To say, then, that ye cannot be born again, that there is no new birth but in baptism, is to seal you all under damnation, to consign you to hell, without help, without hope. And perhaps some may think this just and right. In their zeal for the Lord of hosts, they may say, “Yea, cut off the sinners, the Amalekites! Let these Gibeonites be utterly destroyed! They deserve no less.” No; nor I, nor you. Mine and your desert, as well as theirs, is hell; and it is mere mercy, free, undeserved mercy, that we are not now in unquenchable fire. You will say, “But we are washed;” we were born again “of water and of the Spirit.” So were they: This, therefore, hinders not at all, but that ye may now be even as they. Know ye not, that “what is highly esteemed of men is an abomination in the sight of God?” Come forth, ye “saints of the world,” ye that are honoured of men, and see who will cast the first stone at them, at these wretches not fit to live upon the earth, these common harlots, adulterers, murderers. Only learn ye first what that meaneth, “He that hateth his brother is a murderer.” (1 John 3:15.) “He that looketh on a woman, to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” (Matt. 5:28.) “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?” (James 4:4.) …
3. How striking is Mr. Baxter’s reflection on this head, in his “Saints’ Everlasting Rest! “Suppose thou wert to meet one in the lower world, to whom thou hadst denied this of fice of love, when ye were both together under the sun; what answer couldst thou make to his upbraiding? ‘At such a time and place, while we were under the sun, God delivered me into thy hands. I then did not know the way of salvation, but was seeking death in the error of my life; and therein thou sufferedst me to remain, without once endeavouring to awake me out of sleep! Hadst thou imparted to me thy knowledge, and warned me to flee from the wrath to come, neither I nor thou need ever have come into this place of torment.’” 4. Every one, therefore, that has a soul to be saved, is entitled to this good office from thee. Yet this does not imply, that it is to be done in the same degree to everyone. It cannot be denied, that there are some to whom it is particularly due. Such, in the first place, are our parents, if we have any that stand in need of it; unless we should place our consorts and our children on an equal footing with them. Next to these we may rank our brothers and sisters, and afterwards our relations, as they are allied to us in a nearer or more distant manner, either by blood or by marriage. Immediately after these are our servants, whether bound to us for a term of years or any shorter term. Lastly, such in their several degrees are our countrymen, our fellow-citizens, and the members of the same society, whether civil or religious: The latter have a particular claim to our service; seeing these societies are formed with that very design, to watch over each other for this very end, that we may not suffer sin upon our brother. If we neglect to reprove any of these, when a fair opportunity offers, we are undoubtedly to be ranked among those that “hate their brother in their heart.” And how severe is the sentence of the Apostle against those who fall under this condemnation! “He that hateth his brother,” though it does not break out into words or actions, “is a murderer:” And ye know,” continues the Apostle, “that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” He hath not that seed planted in his soul, which groweth up unto everlasting life: In other words, he is in such a state, that if he dies therein, he cannot see life. It plainly follows, that to neglect this is no small thing, but eminently endangers our final salvation. …