The duties of the Christian life, of believers toward other believers in the body of Christ, are many. This is, indeed, a great part of what it means to be a Christian, to take seriously all the commands which the Apostle Paul wrote to various churches. It was often his custom, in his letters, to place these toward the end of the letter. He calls these commands “exhortations”. Believe it or not, there are actually 14 exhortations that are crammed into 9 verses here; verses 14-22. So what I would like to do this afternoon is just to take the first four of these exhortations which are found in verse 14 and open them up. As I do so, I hope that you will be praying about what you might personally have the ability to do; not only to receive these exhortations, but also that you might think about what you might do for others in the church.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...