A Love the World Wants
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Having been born again, Christians belong to God's family and receive new brothers and sisters in the Lord. Today, Sinclair Ferguson describes how brotherly love in the church is vital for bearing witness to Christ in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Family love is natural. |
| 0:03.0 | Love for the brothers is spiritual, |
| 0:06.0 | but God intends it to become instinctive to us, |
| 0:10.0 | natural for us. |
| 0:12.0 | And this is why we have what for some people is a very surprising |
| 0:16.0 | command. We're commanded to love one another. And the reason that is the case is |
| 0:21.7 | because of course love is not in the New Testament a matter of emotion merely. |
| 0:26.7 | It's principally a matter of the way we think about one another. As your local community observes your church and interacts with its members throughout the week, what is it that they notice the most? |
| 0:46.0 | Is it the love you have for your brothers and sisters in Christ? |
| 0:50.0 | This is the Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind, a daily and listener supported outreach |
| 0:55.1 | of Ligonier Ministries. |
| 0:57.2 | This week you're hearing messages from Sinclair Ferguson's news series, Sojourners, and Exiles, a study in First Peter. |
| 1:05.0 | And today, we're reminded that Christian Love is not an option. |
| 1:10.0 | We're commanded in First Peter 122 to love one another earnestly from a pure heart. |
| 1:17.0 | So what does that kind of love look like? |
| 1:19.2 | Why does Peter emphasize it and what should be the result as the world watches on and sees that kind of |
| 1:25.0 | Christian community. Here's Dr Ferguson. |
| 1:30.0 | While we are continuing now our studies in First Peter this wonderful letter about which Martin Luther said that although you can read it in 20 minutes perhaps speaking with some |
| 1:41.4 | exaggeration as he sometimes did. It contains everything you need to |
| 1:45.5 | know to live the Christian life. And I think it's not difficult reaching the point |
| 1:50.2 | where we are now in First Peter to understand why someone in the trenches |
| 1:55.0 | the way Luther was fighting the battle of the Christian life would turn to |
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