MUST WE LOVE THESE NEIGHBOURS?

 

Our neighbours donate blood to others,
Deliberately rejecting Your Law.
(1)
Lord, must we love these neighbours?
(2)

They allow and practice adultery, (3)
Though they know You hate fornicators!
(4)
Lord, must we love these neighbours?

They gossip angrily against Your servants,
How can they inherit Your Kingdom?
(5)
Lord, must we love these neighbours?

They are continually bent on mischief,
Hoping to cause us to fall.
(6)
Lord, must we love these neighbours?

They have the mark of duplicity
Turning friends into enemies.
(7)
Lord, must we love these neighbours?

They send Gog's crowd against us,
Rousing Your righteous anger upon them.
(8)
Lord, must we love these neighbours?

They try to evict us from our home, (9)
But our spiritual home is safe with You.
Lord, must we love these neighbours?

They disregard our needs and persecute us,
They delight in our distress.
(10)
Lord, must we love these neighbours?

We showed love to them by Your Holy Word,
As we desire to be loved.  They mocked us.
(11)
Lord, must we love these neighbours?

They build while Your house is laid waste, (12)
Shouting obscenities when You call Your sons.
Lord, must we love these neighbours?

We are ostracized for obeying Your Word, (13)
Your raging we bear. Conduct our legal case.
(14)
Lord, must we love these neighbours?

The "body" of Your Christ numbers 144,000. (15)
But to the innumerable enemies of the "least ones"
Your Son The Word has said to them:

"'Truly I say to you, To the extent that you did not do
it to one of these least ones,   you did not do it to me.'
And these will depart into everlasting cutting-off, but
the righteous ones into everlasting life."
(16)

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SOURCES.
 
  (1)   Acts 15:28,29.
        &  Lev 17:14.
(2)   Luke 10:27.
 
(3)   Eph 5:5.
 
 

(4)   Rev 22:15.
 

(5)   Gal 5:19-21.
 
(6)  Wisdom of Solomon
        2:10-20 NEB.
  (7)   Ecclesiasticus
        5:14 - 6:1 NEB.
(8)   Ezek 38:18-23. (9)   2 Esdras 16:69-73 NEB.
  (10) Rev 11:7-10.
 
(11) 2 Peter 3:3.
 
(12) Haggai 1:4.
 
  (13) Isaiah 66:5.
 
(14) Micah 7:9.
 
(15) Rev 7:4.
 
  (16) Matt 25:45,46.    

 

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