Stir Up One Another
Stir Up One Another Excerpt “And” (he says) “let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting8 one another and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.” And again in other places, “The Lord is at hand; be careful for nothing.” ( Phil. iv . 5 , Phil. iv. 6 .) “For now is our salvation nearer: Henceforth the time is short.” ( Rom. xiii. 11 .) What is, “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together” ? ( 1 Cor. vii. 29 .) He knew that much strength arises from being together and assembling together. “For where two or three” (it is said) “are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them” ( Matt. xviii. 20 ); and again, “That they may be One, as we” also are ( John xvii. 11 ); and, “They had all one heart and [one] soul.” ( Acts iv. 32 .) And not this only, but also because love is increased by t...