"Let Brotherly Love Continue" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

0:00 Music. Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, indeed, the war goes on, but we have won. And we thank you, Father, that your will be done, O God, on earth, in and through us this day. That your kingdom come, your will be done, especially through your remnant, the people who have chosen to lay down their lives and follow you.

0:45 I thank you, Lord God, for the obedience and the example of Jesus Christ, your Son. And thank you, Jesus, for dying, taking on the death penalty for us and standing in our place that we might be set free. Thank you for the gift of salvation, a free gift to whosoever will, Lord God. And I thank you, Jesus, for giving us power over all the power of the enemy. You've given us authority, anointing, and assignments. And I pray right now, God, that we would step into those assignments and use the authority that you have given us to do what you've called us to do, including binding and loosing and forbidding the enemy and forgiving those who need forgiveness, Lord God. I thank you, Jesus, that you are the great, wonderful counselor.

1:26 You are giving us instruction. Guide us this day. Give us eyes to see, ears to hear, heart to hear, to receive the revelation of your love, not to be afraid or disappointed or confused. We bind every spirit of confusion, discouragement, anything that would be hindering any of our listeners. We bind and forbid you, enemy, you're exposed by the light of God's truth. Now get out of them. Go to the pit in the name of Jesus Christ. And we thank you, Lord, for encouragement, health, answers to prayer and healing. And Father God, help us to understand that no weapon formed against us will prosper. No word said, deed done, or action taken against us, our families, those who work for us, pray for us, love us. Lord God, the many in the remnant, that you'd cover and answer prayers that they'd deliver and heal. Father God, encourage your people.

2:09 Father, through your word, through your spirit, and through your interventions in our lives. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Well, let brotherly love continue. This is what I woke up with on my mind today. And, you know, we all know, we all know, Jerry, we all know in our spirits that the world and the things that are going on around us are not right. Everybody knows that, even though many of us do not live up to the standards that Jesus called for, you know, love one another. We know the truth. Jesus is coming back. Our 6,000 years is pretty well up, pretty much up, would you say? Yeah, and Jesus talked about, you know, what it's going to be like in the last days, which we are in the last of the last of the last days.

2:54 I'm pretty sure we are, yeah. You know, before the return of the Lord, and one of the characteristics of the last of the last of the last days, it says in Matthew 24, 10, many will be offended and will betray one another and will hate one another. And he says... And then he talks about many false prophets rising up and deceiving many. And then he says in verse 12 of Matthew 24, and because lawlessness or iniquity will abound, there's so much of it. There's a lot of it. The love of many will grow cold. The word that's used there for love means the love of God. It's not brotherly love per se.

3:35 It's the love of God in God's people is going to grow cold. And the word grow there, cold, it cools off. It means like if you take a hot bowl of soup and you put a spoon in it and you blow on it to cool it off. And the iniquity in this world blows on us. Wears us out. It cools us off. And so the love grows cold. Well, you know, part of that is Satan is, he's fanatic. He's frantically trying to divide and conquer his main method of everything, divide and conquer. setting us up in opposition to each other, to ourselves. And for the most part, you know, it's really working well.

4:16 Like you just said, in the last days, or just before the return of Jesus, this is one of the signs that the love of many, many will be offended, they'll betray one another, they'll hate one another. Just listen to any newscast and you've got all that. And so this hatred and betrayal, divisiveness, division, bitterness is springing up to divide families, setting two against three, you know, that's really a common thing too now. So much of it's so that people can't even, you know, have family discussions or meals together because they have to bar certain subjects like politics or religion because there's so much tension and intense feelings on these subjects that it's really missing the whole point, the whole mark of what Jesus said in the last days, love one another.

5:05 Yeah, and you think of when someone passes away, say a mother or father, grandpa, grandma, and then the children, the siblings—, deal with all the estate stuff, and it seems like things that have been harbored for so long come out. Yeah, it's true. And it can be very vile, very vicious. Well, it's all about people. Tragic. People getting revved up, raging, mad at each other. Long-term bitterness. Yeah, divisiveness and division that are being deliberately perpetuated to weaken our families, our nations, and wear out the saints. This is the devil's plan. He is in the midst of it all, and we don't even acknowledge or realize it.

5:47 We're busy being lawless, you know, where the love of God grows cold. The devil is busy stirring the pot of fear and offense. And it's really at the point of boiling over. And here's another interesting thing. I think he recycles old information, doubts, doctored videos, creates old scandals, He resurrects old scandals, horrible stories, atrocities, shortcomings, you know, carnage, weather-related destructions to create fear and devastation in the people's life and keeping at a constant hot temperature to create the fear and the destructions and the distractions. So what does that do?

6:28 Well, what is it? Causes people to what? Shelter in place. To shelter in place. Not to trust one another. Yeah, right. There's so much betrayal in marriages, in families, in government, that people, for good reason, people get the idea, don't trust anybody. Well, that's right. We've been taught to shelter in place, to keep ourselves, stop talking to one another, don't reach out. And all of this is designed to break the law of love, to stop the love of God from moving forward in this very devastated environment we live in.

7:09 It's all to quench that brotherly love that Jesus told us would be the sign and behavior of his followers, of his true followers in the end days. They will know you are my disciples by the love that you have for one another. That brotherly love is probably the only place that's safe. because he said here's how here's how this works he said very clearly by their fruits you shall know them. Okay, not by the size of their house or their bank account or the church that they go to or the agility to move in the marketplace or proficiency in Facebook or social media.

7:50 Our real mark of love is our love for one another, our love for God. And love is not just words, you know, I love you, I love you, I love you. It's not just feeling. It's, Jesus said, love, not just in word, but in deed and in truth. Yeah. Yeah, it's so sad. We're really being faked out by everything around us. We are busy being divided over political manipulations. We're busy trying to figure out who we can trust. You know, it's like everything is become, you know, people can't even talk or share their own lives, their own sense of destiny or the truth of God without becoming an enemy.

8:34 Paul says, do I become your enemy because I tell you the truth? Well, everybody doesn't agree on what that truth is, so everybody, it's a, truth is like a blade that Satan is using to cut one another. And so many of us are so self-centered, we're so focused on ourselves, we're overwhelmed by our own self, our own problems, our own issues. Trying to solve them, yeah. That we're so ingrown with our own issues that we don't have the confidence or the ability to reach out and love other people. Because we're afraid. And, you know, also it's like simple little straightforward things that were common sense back in the day.

9:14 Like male and female and marriage and peace have been chopped up like you would chop up wood and throw it on a burning fire. And this creates, is really intended by saying to burn down the house of humankind and set us on fire in the blazing fire of hell. Because, you know, every little splinter, every little nuance, every little thing that isn't right, isn't perfect, isn't whatever, it becomes a place of offense. But it really kind of boils down to our rejection of the one true God is being brought into the forefront because that's why we're here. We're actually in this mess because we have rejected the first commandment.

9:56 Thou shalt have no other gods before him. We've practiced paganism and idolatry. This has opened the door to fear and division and danger and demonic everything among us. So we see this. You see this. We hear this. We recognize this. But we have to recognize this is all part of the culmination. You know, in the movie, you have Act 2, and then it builds up into Act 3. Act 3 is where you have the crisis resolved. But we're in Act 3, where the crisis is—we're in crisis right now all over the place. Jesus is coming back. You know, all creation is groaning. Everybody is sick and fearful, and it's just a mess. But we know that brotherly love, the love of God, is the sure refuge for us in the last days.

10:38 And Jesus said again, by their fruits you shall know them. The fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5 is what? It's love, joy, peace, longs, suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control. Now, these are the antidotes for fear, sorrow, war, discouragement, hard-heartedness, meanness, doubt, hostility, and lust. Jesus had it right. You know, he said this, that whosoever, you know, would follow him in the last days would risk, you know, the work of being, the work of offense would be the attack, the judging, the failure to discern.

11:28 People are tired and they don't even... They don't even want to fight anymore. They don't even want, but you don't have to fight. You just can be, be in the love of God, be in the place where you're okay because God's love is in you. Fear is removed by the love of God. Sorrow is removed by the peace of God. War and discouragement are removed by the rejoicing and the gratitude we have towards God, thanking God, thinking of God, focusing on God, letting God take the center stage in your life, even in this messy time we live in. Realizing that we're so highly valued by God, and we need to value ourselves, not worship ourselves.

12:09 You know, we're not making ourselves the center of the universe. God is the center of our universe. And coming into that place of when we value ourselves, he says we're to love our neighbor as ourself. I mean, basically, it's the threefold thing, loving God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and your neighbor. As yourself. Secondly, and your neighbor as yourself. In other words, even places in the scripture where Paul writes, he said, esteem one another higher than yourself. In other words, helping others. The best way to take care of you is to help others. Right, and God will take care of you.

12:50 You know, I think Peter had it absolutely right in 1 Peter 3 where he says, finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another. Love as brothers, brotherly love. Be tenderhearted, be courteous. In other words, be nice to one another, be thankful, not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. So God has called us, it says, he who would love life, like you just said, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile or deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

13:31 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. And you'd think the fear of God would actually start to come upon people as we recognize the days and the signs of the times that we're in, where the love of many is growing cold, they're being offended, betrayed, bitter, hostile. And all of this squabbling and all of this, you know. Trying to find the truth and discern the truth is actually making it more hard to find and more obscure because people are set up in their own, locked up in their own fears and mindsets. And so really the choice is in this last day for you and for me. We still have a choice.

14:12 How are we going to conduct ourselves? Are we going to operate out of fear and fighting and shedding and shredding the truth and tearing down one another and the hope that is in us that we must— and even destroying the hope of those who have to live beyond us in our children, our grandchildren. They have to continue living in this until the Lord comes. but are we going to do this in brotherly love or are we going to keep trying to save our own lives? Jesus said he who seeks to save his life will lose it. It's time to let go of your life. Don't worry about your life. Be thankful for your life. Bless God at all times and forgive. Teach people through example how to love and forgive.

14:55 Forgiveness is really a big part of brotherly love because forgiveness means you release them from the offense, the judgment, the bitterness, the betrayal that they committed against you and you release them and release that action into the counsel of God. Let God be the judge when you forgive. You're saying, I release you for my judgment, and I'm going to let the Lord God judge between us. Galatians 5.13, reading there and a little bit beyond. For you, brethren, have been called to liberty only. Do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word. even this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Then the other part of it, the contrary area with this is verse 15, but if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another. So don't be a piranha.

15:51 Don't just, we're so good at, Finding the faults in other people. Finding fault in other people. That doesn't mean that we just accept everything and we never criticize somebody or call somebody out on their sin and what evil they're doing. That doesn't mean that we just said, Oh, we just love. Well, Jesus did that, but he did that in a spirit. He used the spirit of truth and spirit of love to identify those things for people so that they could be set free. And I believe that's kind of what it is will be too with us. But what's it going to cost us to practice brotherly love? Well, one of the things it's going to cost us is our opinions and our right to be offended, our stubbornness, our refusal to repent.

16:36 All of these things get in the way of love and they make us difficult to be with. You know, fear says, but then who will defend the truth if I lay down my political opinions? Or who will, you know, thinking that we all have the absolute correct, every man's opinion seems right in his own eyes, as Proverbs says. There's a bit of truth sprinkled on both sides of every issue, you know, and so people can pick one side and just not flip the coin over and say, well, yeah, there's this also, you know. I mean, we have trigger words that are thrown out in our news and in our political arenas, you know, like Ukraine and war and deportation, All of these trigger words cause the devil to use it.

17:22 The devil uses them to set us up in opportunities to take sides against each other. We have to be aware of this. My fight is not that. The hill I die on is the hill of love and the salvation promised us by Jesus Christ, not whether this politician is going to do what he said or this war is going to end over here. I have to give account to God for what I decide, and I decide to follow Jesus no matter what that looks like. Romans 12, 16 says, Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion. Now, I have some friends that love the Lord, but they have opinions about things that are really wrong.

18:13 Because my opinions are always right. Yeah, that's right. But here's the deal is that when he, I think in one particular friend, when he brings up something, I know he's just so, he loves Jesus, but he's so off on some things. According to you anyway. Oh, yeah. He's just like, are you kidding me? How can you say that? And how can you think that? But what I do is just, let's go back to Jesus. Let's talk about Jesus. Let's go for the truth. Opinions aren't going to save you. Truth will save you. Truth will set you free.

18:53 Let's focus on the truth. Let's focus on the Word of God and not just get torn apart by various opinions on whatever the matter is. Well, you know, we're talking about truth here. Real bottom line truth is defined in Jesus Christ. And he is one and the same with love. So love and truth are both found in Jesus Christ, are defined by Jesus Christ and through him. So they really love and truth. You know, if I don't take this stand, who's going to defend the truth? Blah, blah, blah. And I have to defend the truth at the expense of love. This is all divisive. You know, Jesus Christ is truth.

19:34 He is love. He loves the truth. and those who follow him will walk in the truth and will walk in the truth with love. And so this is not as complicated as it might seem. Actually love and truth complement and complete each other. And Paul deals with this in Corinthians. I'm not sure if it's 1 Corinthians 7. I could be off on that. But he talks about the debatable things, the Christian and debatable things. Some people eat meat. Some people just eat vegetables. Some people. Worship on this day. Some people worship on that day. Some people play golf. Some people. You know. You know. Well, you know, it's just like there's. Do something else. So it's, yeah, there's different. He says, allow for differences.

20:22 Allow for differences of view because not every one of us are going to see everything exactly the same way. And that's okay. And that's okay. But love is going to, if love prevails, then we're not going to get divided on. I mean, I don't have to do, for somebody doing something with their time, if they're serving the Lord and do that, I wouldn't do that. And they wouldn't do what I would do. But I can still love them and walk with them. And the more we walk, the more we really get closer to the Lord, It's just like the triangle.

21:03 If you have two people at the base of a triangle, and the closer you get to the Lord, the closer you get to one another. Not close in terms of distance. I'm talking about the more you're in tune with Jesus, the more you're in tune with the Word, the more you're going to agree on things. So the agreements we need to have, Marjorie, And so brotherly love can be there. Is the agreements we need to make, have, and continue in is based on truth. Right. We're agreeing on the truth. Who is Jesus. With Jesus, and then. Yeah, and there's a lot of, in Jesus Christ, that's where the strength comes from. There's a lot of variety.

21:47 There's a lot of differences. Like you said, people do things differently. As a man, how does that say? Whatsoever is not of faith is sin. So if a person believes something and you believe something a little different, but they're actually believing, and God is okay with that, you know, then let them walk in that. We're not here to correct everybody's walk. We're here not to correct them at all, really. We're here to be a light and let the light of Jesus Christ shine in us, let the love of God shine through us, because I have to give an account of my behavior before the Lord, not theirs. And so, you know, obviously there are times when it's right to speak the truth in love that they may grow up, Ephesians 4.15, where you have to, you know, bring some direction or correction, as the Word of God does, we're not going to sit here and say nothing because it might offend someone.

22:36 That's not the solution to being unoffended is just be quiet. But the truth is if you have a relationship with someone and you have, love suffers all things, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, love endures, if the people know that, you know, and whether they know it or not, if you love them, that is what's most important, and that you love them, that brotherly love that comes from you continue through you to comfort your people. And there's so many people out there that we can love, and so many broken people out there. There's no end to opportunities to love people. And you can love them with a smile. You can love them with a, you know, with a whatever, with a handshake, with a kind word.

23:19 Sometimes just these courteous little gentle gestures are so encouraging. People, even eye contact is a blessing sometimes when people walk with their eyes on the sidewalk and don't want to see anybody and don't want to hear anybody. You know, people are so disconnected. And that's exactly, again, division. The devil wants that division so that we don't care about one another. We don't want to resolve our issues because we don't like one another anyway. So why should we resolve our issues? Well, I just want to stay right. I just want to stay with my opinion. And this only promotes the devil's frantic plan to divide us. In the end, there's going to be a huge division. Everything is going to separate. Daniel said the godly and the unjust are going to get more unjust.

24:02 So this rift is becoming like the Grand Canyon, and there are people on either side of it. And it will be that way. That is actually one of the signs in the book of Revelation of the sorting. You know, those who are ready to be raptured and go with the Lord and those who are going to hang around and take the mark of the beast or be tempted to. And, you know, and I'm not saying that the rapture is going to rescue us out of the Mark of the Beast situation. I hope so. I really would believe that God would be kind, and if I were a father, that's kind of what I would do, because he does talk about the rapture. But the thing is, there is this separation. You and I are being separated unto Christ. But at the same time that we're being separated unto Christ, we're also seeing division all around us that's promoting separation from Christ. You know, people are being drawn away by fear, isolate.

24:53 So you and I have the great opportunity to meet them in that place of fear with a word of truth or a word of hope. You know, discerning that their soul is in danger and that their mind, their thoughts, their soul has drawn them through the demonic, you know, whatever the devil has done. Drawn them into a mindset, a dangerous place where if you love them, love bears all things, love suffers, love believes. And so let brotherly love continue. I mean, this is your challenge. This is the mark of a true believer. And we are in the end times. So whatever you got planned for the next, you know, five years, whatever, just pencil in the return of Jesus Christ, because it could be coming sooner than you think.

25:40 Exactly, exactly. You know, and someone said life happens. Life is what happens while you're making other plans. But, you know, the thing is, Jesus is coming for those who are looking for him. His appearing. For those who love his appearing, not that said dread his appearing. Oh, no, the Lord might come and catch me in some sin or something like that. You know, it's just like, Lord, when you love the Lord, you want to be with him. You know. And in the meantime, I just think of Philippians chapter 2. Therefore, beginning with verse 1 through verse 4, therefore, if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy.

26:28 Paul is saying, you know, you want to make me happy? This is what you do. Be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, one mind. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you, Look out not only for your own interests, but for the interests of others. So esteeming others better than ourselves means that you have more concern maybe about their eternal salvation and destiny than they do at the time. Because they're maybe captured in some lie or destruction. So, Father God, we thank you for our wonderful opportunity to be here at this very powerful and critical culmination of the end.

27:17 Of whatever it is, this dispensation, Father. So we're praising you and thanking you for inspiring each one who's listening today. Encourage them, take away the fear, hold up the obstacles, the barricades in their minds, in their hearts, and let them be encouraged to let brotherly love continue and let all of us, permit all of us, as we permit love to continue, you. Let us love one another as you love us, and let us be comforted in that love, Father, in Jesus' name. And those who are sick and those who are tormented and afflicted, and which is so many, Father God, may our prayers be effective.

28:01 The love of our prayers, the compassion that we have been praying for them, set them free to come into a new place of healing and hope, knowing also that they are loved, because that's what brotherly love is all about, knowing that we are loved by God, by one another. Thank you, Jesus, for your faithfulness to us and for your healing virtue that comes through love. Amen. Well, love is in the context, of course, of in relationships, and you have a book. Tell us about your book. Yes, Doing Relationships God's Way. It's amazing. It's quite a remarkable book. Actually, we talk about our relationships with God, with ourself, with other people, with difficult people, with our spouses. We talk about communication.

28:46 We talk about all kinds of things that the enemy has tried to do to divide and set us up in opposition to ourselves, to one another. And relationships are actually the road. It is the medium. It is the activity center in which God teaches us how to love. Relationships are the connection and the way we learn how to live and love one another. So yeah, doing relationships God's way, you can get it on amazon.com. You can also check out our website for a lot of other information. We will be doing a bunch more, lots more, setting captives free intensives this fall and winter and spring.

29:26 That list of dates and schedule will be on our website very shortly. And so we encourage you to plan ahead. These intensives are very affordable, $300 basically for six days of food, lodging, and instruction. So everything is included in that and except your sleeping bag or your bedroll. But you're welcome to come to that and check us out at liferecovery.com. So be blessed. Talk to you soon. Music.