“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as
is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and
so much the more as you see the Day approaching.”
Hebrews 10:25
To exhort one another, that means to urge or advise strongly. We as a body of believers need to exhort each other more to follow the Lord. In our assemblies we spend more time worrying about who is sleeping with whom than uplifting one another. Our bodies of believers have turned into a body of gossipers and backbiters. It is no wonder our church bodies have no power to stem this epidemic. Instead of gossiping about each other we should be praying for each other and lifting our fallen members up. We want to just sit and talk behind each others backs. As the day of judgment approaches with all of its trials and tribulations for believers we need more than ever to exhort one another. We will all come under extreme pressure to compromise and adopt the ways of the world. It will take all of our faiths to be able to stand in those times.
We must remember that this body is all about relationships. From the relationship the Father has with the Son, to our relationship with the Trinity, to our relationship to each other. Our relationship with each other is suppose to be a mirror of the relationship we have with our heavenly Father. If we build better relationships inside the body of believers, the more likely we will follow the teachings of the Lord. As our relationships get stronger with our brothers and sisters in Christ, the stronger our resolve to do the right thing will be. We strengthen each other through our unity of purpose and faith. Let us begin to work on our relationships to affect change on the world. Our Lord said, “If we have something against our brothers we are to leave our gift at the altar and go and be reconciled to our brothers, then come back to the altar.[1] Let our church bodies be strongholds of righteousness that believers can run to and find sanctuary. Let them find exhortation and not fornication.
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