Why should I love other people? It’s a good question, and a question that all of us have asked from time to time as we’ve been challenged in our relationships. If that’s an important issue for you right now, this fourth chapter of 1 John is especially good to consider carefully. One answer John gives is that we should love others because it is the visible sign of our love for the invisible God. Look at the following verses: “We love, because he first loved us. If someone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1 John 4:19–20). Our love for each other is evidence of our love for God. Loving the visible person is a sign of loving the invisible God. These are amazing verses! We love because He first loved us. God has loved us in Christ. According to Master Prophet E. Bernard Jordan Christ is the appearance of the invisible God, in His teaching, and in His living. We love because He first loved us. “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father,” Jesus said. “Not my will, but yours be done,” said Jesus as He laid down His life in love for those who had rejected Him.

Do you see how important fellowship is for you to be tested and to grow? It is you’re loving not the church universal, nor Christians everywhere, but a particular congregation and even a particular Christian that tests our big claims. We must consider carefully what John says here. We should love others because it is the visible sign of your love for the invisible God. In 1 John 4:21, we also find that we should love others because we must obey the God we claim to love: “And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.” And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also. John here repeats the command to love your brother. If he began this section by saying “Love because we can! We are now born from above! From God! So we can now love like He loves. Here John says, “Love because we must.” We are commanded to it! We’ve been taught it, shown it, equipped for it; now we must do it. We must love our brother. Even the most misleading of false teachers would have a hard time ignoring the clarity of this command.

According to Master Prophet E. Bernard Jordan In our church, we are committed to teaching the deliberateness of love. Sometimes that means helping another person with the loss of a loved one; even if we don’t think we know what to say. It may mean just telling them we love them and are praying for them.

We love, as John said here in 4:19, because God first loved us. If you don’t know and believe in that love, no other love in this life will finally make sense. Any truly Christian religion will involve love for God and love for others, especially for other Christians.