“Let brotherly love continue. (2) Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Hebrews 13:1 - 2
When God causes a person to be “born again” that soul is
forever changed. Jesus said, “And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darkness comprehended it not.” John 1:5 Lost people live in total absolute darkness;
they are blinded because their spirits are dead. They cannot spiritually see,
hear, or even understand the things of the Holy Spirit, nor does the Holy
Spirit interchange with them in any way. Lost people never please the Lord they
live in darkness, and they do nothing to please God. The Lord said, “But the
natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness
unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
1 Corinthians 2:14 The things of God are foolishness to them, why, because they
are spiritually unable to connect the dot of God’s teachings. The bible is a
revelation, it is only attainable if the human spirit is able to spiritually
see the Truth. However, once the Holy Spirit quickens the human spirit then the
whole person changed, we move from complete darkness spiritually to an
unquenchable light and then we are able to comprehend the spiritual things of
the bible. God has caused the light to shine in our hearts for us to overcome spiritual
darkness and our living spirit is now able to see, hear, and understand God’s
word. However, even with this greatness there is something even greater, we
become the children of God. “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of
children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his
will,” Ephesians 1:5 Once a lost sinner is redeemed by the blood of the
Lamb, their whole existence changes, and part of that change is our sonship, we
now are God’s child. We have a whole new family, an eternal family that is even
more important than our human family. We have heavenly family members all over
the world, different nationalities, different races, different languages, we
have so many brothers and sisters in Christ, we could not possibly know them
all. As Christians, as children of God, we are all different, we have a family
that is a world. This love is a gift from God that the natural man does not
have. The natural man has human love, but that is love that can disappear and
can be replaced with hate, unlike Christian love. Gifts of God are eternal and
not temporal, because they are sustained by the power of God. The Lord promised
us in Proverbs 8:21 “That I may cause those that love me to inherit
substance; and I will fill their treasures.” Our, biggest and most blessed
treasure is God gifting us with sonship in Jesus Christ. Our being eternally in
the family of God. This makes us special to God, and special to His Son Jesus
our Messiah. Earthly families are temporal because once life is over, we are
eternally in God’s family. We may never see some of our earthly family, and if
we do, we are brethren for eternally. We may not know a person on this earth as
our brother or sister in Christ, this is why the Lord commanded to “Be not
forgetful to entertain strangers” because we do not know if that stranger
is a child of God, or an angel sent from God. Jesus will tell the lost in their
judgment day, “For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty,
and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye
clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.” Matthew 25:42
– 43 Christians are to love and entertain out brethren, and if we fail, we fail
to serve the Lord. When the Lord said, “Let brotherly love continue.” He
means for it to never end, and when anyone is in need we are to help. Our life
and work of this life is a testimony of the love and work of God in our hearts.
Life is a test for us to prepare for our judgment. If we have the opportunity to
help in entertain strangers, we certainly need to do just that. Think of it
this way, what if God tested you with an opportunity to help and you failed? Why
if a brother or sister needed help and you failed to help, how is God feeling
about that? Beloved, when you entertain strangers, you never know who you may
be helping, a fellow brother of sister, and angel, but you will never fail if
you “Let brotherly love continue.”
