Sibling love flows from God's divine character

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The divine character of God's love puts an end to feelings of hostility between brothers and allows affection and benevolence to flow between them.

In 2 Peter 1: 7-8, King James Version (NIV), the Lord teaches us:

7 to godliness, brotherly affection; and fraternal affection, love. 8 For if these things are in you and abound, they will not leave you idle or fruitless with regard to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In 2 Peter 1: 4, the apostle describes the "precious and great promises" that try to enable us to:

1 be "participants" of your divine nature, and

2 allows us to escape "corruption in the world".

These graces are necessary to lead us above the decay of human nature and towards "fraternal affection" and "love" (2 Peter 1: 7). Fraternal goodness dissolves personal quarrel and mutual abandonment.
It allows us to worry again about our true enemy: Satan. Moreover, knowing how to love is knowing how to receive and generate agape love: what seems to us to Christ, that providential gift full of affection, overflowing with benevolence, that provides a feast of love to all those who minister in Jesus' name. This biblical portion that we have shared of the apostle Peter constitutes a promise to those whose consecration allows these gifts to flow: we can really participate in the divine nature, which rises well above the corrupt and divisive spirit of the world.

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Good, in the actuality is very well know that there is brother and sister as us.

WHILE MORE GIFTS WE DEVELOP AS MORE PLEASANT BLESSINGS IT WILL BE GOD'S LOVE TO US

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