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L<\/span>ove is one of those things that almost all people think they possess.\u00a0 Brotherly love is something that almost all believers would say they possess and practice as well as most Christians.\u00a0 We know God has loved the world of people, that believers ought to love other believers, and yet we also know that there is a lot of hypocrisy hidden behind hand shaking, back slapping, and the common, \u201cGod bless you.\u201d <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The fact is, this is a broken world!\u00a0 We are very aware that it is God\u2019s world in the sense that He is the Creator and Owner, but sin has made it a fallen world with Satan as the god of its commerce and culture, who has taken over and usurped the Owner\u2019s position.\u00a0 The longer time rolls on since that fateful day of Adam\u2019s choice, and the longer the Lord delays His coming, the more broken it will become. <\/span><\/p>\n

God has a plan, however, for the future of this world and for eternity.\u00a0 Through redemption that is provided by faith in Jesus Christ, His Son, God is taking the world back one person at a time.\u00a0 Eventually, Christ Himself will return and finish the takeover and bring in everlasting righteousness and peace where these redeemed ones will reign with Him in the \u201ckingdom which he hath promised to them that love him\u201d (Jas. 2:5).\u00a0 The present evangelistic enterprise has both a broad and narrow scope to it.\u00a0 Whosoever will believe the message of redemption and future reward may become a part of this great company of saints (Jn. 3:16).\u00a0 Yet, no one may come any other way (Jn. 14:6).\u00a0 Those who do come have a distinguishing mark upon them from public baptism, the confession of their new-found faith and their change of allegiance.\u00a0 They also have a retreat center called the church, where they meet weekly and sometimes daily to strengthen their resolve and to make plans for the continuation of their mission. <\/span><\/p>\n

These believers find themselves in stark contrast with their former comrades.\u00a0 In an almost surprising realization, they find that their former friends resent their conversion and the change that has come over them and they \u201cspeak evil\u201d against them (1 Pet. 2:12; 3:16; 4:4).\u00a0 But no wonder!\u00a0 These converts have experienced a new birth that has made them new creatures by a wonderful regeneration performed by the Holy Spirit of God (Tit. 3:5). <\/span><\/p>\n

Out of love, these converts speak to their former comrades of a coming day of wrath and judgment from God upon those who refuse to accept the proffered salvation.\u00a0 But this only brings more resentment and even retaliation from these former friends.\u00a0 They do not believe that a God of love can also be wrathful, even over outright sinfulness and unrighteousness.\u00a0 They are usually the same ones who have a hard time with the \u201crule of law\u201d in their own civil society.\u00a0 For them, law and love just don\u2019t go together.<\/span><\/p>\n

So the feud between families continues, sparked by Satan himself who has \u201cblinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them\u201d (2 Cor. 4:4).\u00a0 Satan is \u201cthe accuser of the brethren\u201d (Rev. 12:10) and keeps this war stirred up, even to a fever pitch at times, while the saints continue to speak what the worldlings consider \u201chate speech.\u201d\u00a0 Though this \u201cgospel\u201d continues to make Satan angry and many of his worldlings hateful, many are also converted by its wonderful message of redemption and they return to their rightful Owner.\u00a0 With children and future generations at stake, believers continue their weekly retreats and the waging of their holy war to rescue more of Satan\u2019s captives.<\/span><\/p>\n

The preceding is a depiction of spiritual life for the believer while still on this earth.\u00a0 It is a reminder of how badly we need the local church and how we need local churches to remain faithful to their purpose in Scripture.\u00a0 While doing some reading recently I was reminded of a Barna survey in which he found that Christians don\u2019t live any differently than non-Christians.<\/span>1<\/span><\/sup> The problem is that Barna assumes that anyone who says he\u2019s a Christian really is a Christian, and if that person doesn\u2019t live differently because of his faith, then evidently the Christian faith doesn\u2019t really change people.\u00a0 Barna should have concluded, of course, that if a person makes a profession of faith in Christ and his life doesn\u2019t change, he should seriously question whether his faith is real.\u00a0 That would be the Biblical way to look at it because the Bible definitely tells us that salvation changes a person.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some Immediate Changes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

One of the major changes that takes place in a person\u2019s life when he becomes a believer is his view of other believers.\u00a0 The immediate common thread that exists among believers is that they have all come out of darkness into light (1 Pet. 2:9).\u00a0 If they understand the Bible at all they realize that they were under the condemnation and righteous wrath of God, and now have been delivered by God\u2019s grace.\u00a0 They have become members one of another in the family of God (Eph. 4:25).\u00a0 This love for the family of God is shed abroad in the hearts of believers\u00a0 from the moment of spiritual conception (Rom. 5:5).\u00a0 This new love of God\u2019s family is called \u201clove of the brethren\u201d (1 Jn. 3:14), the \u201cbrotherhood\u201d (1 Pet. 2:17), or just \u201cbrothers\u201d and \u201csisters,\u201d \u201cfathers\u201d and \u201cmothers\u201d (1 Tim. 5:1-2).\u00a0 Jesus first called His followers \u201cbrethren\u201d on the day of His resurrection (John 20:17) and early in the church\u2019s life the whole group is addressed the same (Acts 6:3).\u00a0 Acts 15 has eleven references to the same wording.\u00a0 It is a family relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n

A second major change that takes place when anyone is converted from Satan\u2019s lordship to Christ\u2019s is that they are no longer part of the old way of life, or what the Bible calls the \u201cworld.\u201d\u00a0 Immediately the Holy Spirit begins changing them from the inside out.\u00a0 Because they are \u201cnew creatures\u201d (2 Cor. 5:17) in Christ, Holy Spirit conviction and instruction from the Word of God begins changing their mind and heart.\u00a0 They are uncomfortable in the old worldly settings.\u00a0 The very language that used to flow so easily from their mouth now offends themselves!\u00a0 The sins that were so easily committed and enjoyed by the flesh now bring conviction and a desire to be removed from them entirely. <\/span><\/p>\n

A third change comes especially on Sunday.\u00a0 This used to be a day off, or a day to sober up, or a day to sleep in.\u00a0 Now the new believer learns that this is the day when, from the very beginning (John 20:19, 26), believers have met together, yes, are commanded to meet together (Heb. 10:25; 1 Cor: 16:2; Acts 20:7).\u00a0 In fact, these believers love and enjoy these meetings so much that they meet twice on Sunday and then again on Wednesday evening, and fill their calendar with various other meetings!\u00a0 The new convert cannot miss the fact that he should be in church with the other brethren, especially on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some Expected Changes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As the new believer grows in Christ and time allows him to observe a few things, he learns for the first time what many of us take for granted.\u00a0 He learns that the church is made up of Christians, that is, people who have been converted as he was.\u00a0 It is not just a place for religious-feeling people who like to make a show of religion on Sunday.\u00a0 These are truly born again people who have been changed from their old lives also. <\/span><\/p>\n

He also finds that the church has two obligations (we like to call them ordinances) to which he is being orientated.\u00a0 He finds that baptism is not only\u00a0 a pattern in Scripture (Acts 2:41, 8:36; 9:18; 10:47; etc.) but it is something he must do immediately for the sake of his own conscience (1 Pet. 3:21).\u00a0 The other ordinance, the Lord\u2019s Supper, now becomes a significant and rewarding experience, and something graciously shared among other believers. <\/span><\/p>\n

The new believer also begins an immediate but life-long study of the Bible.\u00a0 In fact, his hunger for the Word of God is like a baby who desires milk (1 Pet. 2:2), he cannot get enough of it.\u00a0 Yes, he is discouraged by the time wasted in his life, and he realizes how far behind he is from other believers.\u00a0 But the great advantage he finds is that the Bible is a book!\u00a0 His knowledge is only limited by himself.\u00a0 He can read to his heart\u2019s content and study so that he is no longer ashamed by his lack of knowledge (2 Tim. 2:15).\u00a0 Best of all, he finds that the Bible is a powerful sword in his struggle for the mastery of his own life and passions (Heb. 4:16).<\/span><\/p>\n

As a believer begins studying the Bible with the help of the Holy Spirit, he is going to find an intense urging toward holiness.\u00a0 From the fact that his Heavenly Father is holy (1 Pet. 1:15,16), to the fact that His Savior is holy (1 Pet. 2:22), to the fact that the Spirit within him is holy (1 Thes. 4:8), this believer knows he is also called to holiness (1 Thes. 4:7).\u00a0 This intense desire to be like the One who saved him will grow naturally within him like a branch which reproduces the qualities and fruitfulness of the vine (John 15:1-8).<\/span><\/p>\n

Some Gradual Changes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As anyone grows in Christ and becomes mature in his Christian walk, certain realities of the Christian life become clear.\u00a0 Sin is real, and forgiveness is real.\u00a0 Deciphering how sin remains in the believer even though Christ has justified him from all sin, past, present, and future, can become a daunting, even discouraging task.\u00a0 It can be a defeating experience if the new believer falls under bad theology.\u00a0 But gradually the believer learns that he is secure in his salvation by the blood of Christ and yet his sin can be confessed boldly at the throne of God because he is God\u2019s child (1 John 1:6-2:2). <\/span><\/p>\n

Sooner or later the new believer will realize that there are tares among the wheat, wolves among the sheep, false belief among the true.\u00a0 Hypocrisy is not primarily the failure of Christians (he already has learned about his own sin) but is the presence of unbelief among true belief.\u00a0 How is it that someone could make a claim of being born again and not really be born again?\u00a0 With a little thought, however, this can be a liberating new truth, not a discouraging one.\u00a0 It is not that the claims of Christianity are not true (as Barna mistakenly concluded) but that the false claims about Christianity are truly false.\u00a0 An unbeliever cannot live as a Christian and a Christian cannot live as an unbeliever.\u00a0 Sooner or later the oil and water will separate. <\/span><\/p>\n

The new believer may be surprised at his new desire to see his old friends saved.\u00a0 He still remembers the anger he felt when Christians tried to witness to him and how he despised them for pushing their religion on him.\u00a0 Now he feels the need to do the same!\u00a0 This comes partly out of his new understanding of their spiritual condition, but also out of his natural love for people who are in danger (Jude 22-23).\u00a0 This will probably be a school of hard knocks.\u00a0 His first attempts at sharing his faith will be rough.\u00a0 But then he will find a most satisfying feeling come over him.\u00a0 He will realize that he is engaged in the most wonderful work in the world.\u00a0 There is nothing he could be doing that would be more helpful to his fellow man in this world or the next (1 Tim. 4:8-10).\u00a0 This understanding will cause him to withstand the most brutal opposition, such as he himself used to dish out.\u00a0 What if those believers had given up on him!<\/span><\/p>\n

A true believer will also learn to love the brethren.\u00a0 This is not just an empathy for some individual believer who is having a rough time of it, though that is a vital part also.\u00a0 Loving the brethren means to love who brethren are.\u00a0 It means to love what brethren ought to be.\u00a0 It is to learn from the Scripture what Christians would be like if they lived totally for God and to want to be like that!\u00a0 It is this love that brings the believer to church.\u00a0 It is this love that causes the backslidden, discouraged believer to come back into fellowship.\u00a0 The love of the brethren is the love of Christ.\u00a0 The brethren were first called \u201cChristians\u201d at Antioch because they were like Christ (Acts 1:26).\u00a0 Brotherly love is Christian love.<\/span><\/p>\n

And So . . .<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cTherefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.\u00a0 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation\u201d (2 Cor. 5:17-18).<\/span><\/p>\n

Notes:<\/span><\/address>\n
1. D.A. Carson (The God Who Is There<\/i>) reminded me of this old survey and made the same comment about it I\u2019m making.<\/span><\/address>\n
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