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CHAPTER XVII
LOVE ESSENTIAL
TO ETERNAL LIFE
0 NOT marvel, brothers, that the world
hates you. We know we have passed over
"D from death to life, because we love the
brothers . He who does not love remains in death .
Everyone who hates his brother is a manslayer,
and you know that no manslayer has everlasting
life remaining in him ." From these words at
1 John 3 :13-15 NW it is manifest that this
world remains in death because it hates God's
anointed children and if we want to enjoy everlasting
life we must cultivate love . A test of our
having love is our loving those who belong to God,
for if we do not love those whom we can see on
earth we cannot really love the God whom these
represent and whom we cannot see .
2 All the creation, visible and invisible, is the
work of love, for God the Creator is love personified
. By love this universal Sovereign rules all
creation, and he holds and will forever hold all
appreciative living creatures to him in the bonds
of unbreakable love . He rules by love . That betokens
eternal good and happiness for all creatures
who gain everlasting life by their indestructible
i . What must we cultivate to gain life? What is a test
of it?
2 . How does love show itself predominantly in God?
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