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Next on in touch, when we are abused.

Three times the night before the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified, he said this to his disciples.

He said, love one another. Love one another love one another and

and then throughout the epistles we find the writers of the epistles saying

things like this.

Accept one another.

Care for one another.

Comfort one another.

Be devoted to one another, be devoted to one another, build up one another, encourage one another,

forgive one another, be patient with one another, be hospitable toward one another, be subject to one another,

stimulate one another, serve one another.

All through the scriptures, God is giving us instructions about our relationship

to each other and when you think about all that is said in just those phrases that I've

given you love one, serving one another, encouraging each other,

stimulating one another. All of this makes something very, very clear. It is never

under any circumstance justifiable to abuse someone else.

Abuse doesn't fit who we are as believers.

It is never the will of God for his children to be abused. And that

word today has become a very popular word. We hear about children being abused,

parents being abused, husbands and wives abusing each other, governments

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