The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

«Ibe iboliest of ail 517
TWELFTH SECTION-xiii.
Of Love and Good Works.
CXXII.
OF LOVE.
XIII.— 1. Let love of the brethren continue.
2. Forget not to shew love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained
angels unawares.
3. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them ; them that are
evil entreated, as being ourselves also in the body.
4. Let marriage be had in honour among all, and let the bed be undeflled :
for fornicators and adiilterers God will judge.
At the door of the Holiest, coupled with the invitation to enter
in (x. 19-25), we heard the name of the three sisters— Faith,
Hope, and Love. The life into which faith leads us has been set
before us in chap. xi. ;
that of hope and its patience in chap xii.
r-13. We now have the life of love and good works. Our
author begins with pointing out four of the chief characteristics
of the life of love. These are, the love of the brethren, hospitality,
sympathy with those who are in bonds or persecuted, and
the love of the married state.
Let love of the brethren continue. The word love, used of
God or Christ, is not found in the Epistle. It was not needed :
its whole teaching is the revelation of that love. Of the love