10:24
Faith is not just a personal thing. God created us as a community, so we are to encourage each other, to urge each other to live by faith, to have love and to do good dees. The word translated “spur one another” is the same term used of people causing a riot. So we are to be fervent in encouraging one another, it is not something we are to do in a half-hearted manner.
10:25
It seems that some were neglecting to meet together. We were designed to need each other. If we become isolated then we put ourselves in danger. The danger will come from our own thoughts, which need the encouragement of others if we are to keep on the right path. Danger will also come from the world, for if we are not listening to godly teaching we will be listening to ungodly teaching, and that will inevitably have a detrimental effect upon us. We see the Day of the Lord approaching. This was written nearly two thousand years ago, and the return is undoubtedly nearer now than it was then.
No comments:
Post a Comment