Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart

John 13:35, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

God’s move throughout the Bible was always based upon one major principle, and that was the willingness of His people.

Apart from the willingness embodied in His people, He would not do anything, particularly related to His corporate testimony with the tabernacle under Moses, the temple under David and Solomon, and the recovered temple under Ezra and Nehemiah.

In the three sections of the Old Testament describing the tabernacle, the temple, and the recovered temple, one common thing is mentioned–the willingness of the people in serving the Lord to build His corporate testimony.

The Lord’s testimony always expressed itself in His people’s willingness to live for God’s pleasure on the earth.

We can see that the Lord embodies Himself in His people’s willingness, and makes Himself known on the earth.

The way He testifies to the earth is expressed in John 13:34-35: “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

These verses tell us that all men are going to know.

There is going to be a testimony that is visible and touchable.

How will this testimony be made known?

There will be groups of saints in city after city over the whole earth who have a willingness to live unto the Lord and to serve Him and to serve one another.

This willingness is embodied in their relationships.

It is the expression of the divine love flowing out.

God makes Himself known to others by His people’s willingness to live for His house.

It is not “going to church.”

It is not attending a certain church service out of obligation, in a token way.

It is not just token attendance, token giving, even token serving, but a welling up of Another life–a life that is consumed for the Father’s house.

The genuineness of the testimony of the church today on this earth is embodied in the willingness of the saints.

Until Tomorrow

With A Shepherd’s Love,

Pastor Jackson

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