Our hatred, our indifference toward one another… our willful separation from one another… is further proof, not only that we are steeped in our own self-righteousness; but also, that we have no revelation of the Father or His love, as He is only seen in and through The Lamb. The Lamb is the True Light of the Father; and His Love is not superficial nor artificial. The Older Prodigal Son “heard from God,” “heard from his Father”; yet he never, actually, carried the heart of his Father toward his own brother. And so it is with us, today! We remain “teknons,” immature children, regarding our Father’s love toward one another…
Jude 1: 10-13, 19 (KJV)
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they (1)have gone in the way of Cain, and (2)ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and (3)perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
Revelation 21: 21-23 (KJV)
21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Luke 15: 28-32 (KJV)
28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
31 And he said unto him, Son [*"teknon"], thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
