Exhortations to the Brethren

The duties of the Christian life, of believers toward other believers in the body of Christ, are many. This is, indeed, a great part of what it means to be a Christian, to take seriously all the commands which the Apostle Paul wrote to various churches. It was often his custom, in his letters, to place these toward the end of the letter. He calls these commands “exhortations”. Believe it or not, there are actually 14 exhortations that are crammed into 9 verses here; verses 14-22. So what I would like to do this afternoon is just to take the first four of these exhortations which are found in verse 14 and open them up. As I do so, I hope that you will be praying about what you might personally have the ability to do; not only to receive these exhortations, but also that you might think about what you might do for others in the church.