"Walk With The King" Program, From the "Attitude" Series, titled "Showing Brotherly Love"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Attitude" Series, titled: "Showing Brotherly Love" (Broadcast #7067)
Scripture References: 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10, Romans 5

Learn about Dr. Cook's ministry at https://www.walkwiththeking.org/

Transcript

Alright, thank you very much, and hello again, my dear radio friend. How in the world are you? Yes, this is your friend, Bob Cook, and I’m glad to be back with you to share from the Word of God. I look forward to these times like a missionary looks forward to furlough. I tell you, it’s great just to look into God’s Word and share. We’re in 1 Thessalonians; we’ve been walking around in the fourth chapter and talking about pleasing God: how you ought to live every day and to please God. Verses 1 to 8 take in a holy life, a life devoid of the immorality that was so common in those days and is today. “This is the will of God, even your sanctification.” And the proof of that was that they were clean morally. That is verses 1-8. And the point he brings out in verse 8 is that if I say, “Well, I’m going to do it my way; I’m going to have my way anyway,” “he that despiseth,” (in other words, if I just go my own way) “despiseth not man but God, Who also hath given unto us His Holy Spirit.” And so, willfulness in this matter of one’s own personal life grieves the Spirit of God and leaves you then in the condition where it’s difficult, if not impossible for you to be a blessing to others.

Bob Pierce came into my office back in the late 1940’s, I guess it would have been. I was then in a little office in Youth for Christ in Chicago, on Wells Street. It was a little cubicle just big enough for a chair, a desk, and another chair alongside of it. It was a little office, I remember that. And Bob Pierce, who is now with the Lord, the founder of World Vision (you remember him) came into my office one day, sat down without a word, laid his head down on the desk and just cried. Well, I waited for a few moments, and then when he composed himself I said, “What in the world is the matter?” He said, “I’ve just come from spending six hours with a man who has lost the blessing of God and doesn’t even know it.” Well, he was speaking with someone who I knew quite well, and for a great number of years had been quite effective in Christian work. But, he had done his own willful thing; he had broken up his family and done a number of other things. It just seemed, to all of us who observed him, seemed like it was an insane business that couldn’t avoid destroying him, and so it did. But there he was. And Bob Pierce said, “He doesn’t know that he’s lost the blessing of God, and so he’s working harder than ever.” And he wept again.

A sad business, and it happens every day, somewhere. I have to remind myself, beloved, and I have to remind you: be careful about the life you live inside, because it affects all that you do outside. A holy life (Verses 1-8), a life of brotherly love: we had just about gotten to that passage when we had to go off the air last time.

“As touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.” It’s an interesting statement, but so true, because you know it in your own heart: whenever you get really right with God, there is an automatic, I guess, outflow of divine love for other people, especially those who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. A brotherly love, Philadelphia, we have the City of Brotherly Love that we know about in Pennsylvania; I lived there for five years when we were first married.

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