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Heb 10:24-25
Heb 10:24-25
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
We are not intended to live our christian lives alone. We are members of community. Most of our living occurs within the context of or local church. We as a community of christ followers are called to live a life of mutual encouragement.
The phrase here “Let us consider” is a phrase that is repeated 14 times in new testament and means notice, consider, pay attention to, look closely at. As Believers we are to focus our attention on the need for conscious activities of encouragement among those in the Christian community.
Author here uses a word which could be used negatively to connote a strong emotion of irritation but here communicates positively stimulation or motivation.
We are challenged to love actively is present as a theme in Bible and is cornerstone of christian community.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
This was testimony of church of Thyatira
“ ‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
How can we stimulate one other to love and do good works. What are few practical ways to stimulate or exhort each other.
not neglecting to meet.
What ever the reason may be, avoiding common fellowship and worship as fatal for perseverance in the faith. Encouragement cannot take place in isolation. Thus, what we must do is gather for mutual encouragement. This fellowship exists for the same. We are here to worship god and encourage each other and this should be our goal. We are gathering here to be close confidants for each other and encourage each other with love. to exhort each other lest we fall in sin.
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Christians are to display a deep care and concern for one another, expressed not only through positive support and reassurance, but also through reproof and warning.
2. Have courage to confront.
Most people shy away from confrontation. We don’t like it. But to help each other grow we need people in our lives who are courageous enough to call a wrong a wrong. We need a friend to come alongside us and say, “Here’s what I am seeing, and this is what God’s word says.” We need courage to call other person out when they are not obeying God’s Word.
I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
3. Have Compassion and patience
Helping and exhorting each other is not an easy task it takes time and effort and love and forgiveness in addition to courage. One character our father has shown is compassion for us we did not deserve to be saved but he had compassion for us. He is still working on us in the process of sanctification.
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
4. Heed to advice.
When a christian in your close fellowship confronts you or corrects you, don’t be angry, do not be judgmental. It is most likely out of love toward you that your are being warned. A wise always take correction and it is for his good.
In all that we do let’s proclaim Him our savior for the day is near, exhort each other so that we may all be mature in Christ.
Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.