Turn with me in the scriptures this evening to John the 15th chapter.

I tell you while we're there so close by, just back up to John 13.

John 13 and 34.

John 1334, Jesus said, a new commandment I have given to you.

That you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Verse 35, by this shall all men know that you are my disciples.

If you have love one to another, what is the most identifying thing that it caused someone to know that you are a real Christian?

It is the love that you are a real Christian. It is the love.

That you love one another is referring to your brother in Christ.

We're to care about those outside as well, but the command is for you and I to love each other in the family.

In fact, we're to treat each other so good that people on the outside want to get in.

Everybody ought to know, you've become a part of that church.

You'll never be alone again.

You'll never be on your own.

You'll never have to fight a battle by yourself.

The only way the enemy has been successful by getting people into gangs and crime families.

And this and that is people who have grown up without a family,

without the family of God,

and they're hungry for it and they hurt for it and they ache for it.

And so they get caught up in these phony families.

And these families are not a real family.

Oh yeah, they got you back until you cross them.

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