10/23/20 THE ONE ANOTHER’S IN THE NT #17 — Galatians 5:15 (CSB) But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

“The imagery is of wild animals savagely attacking and killing each other—a graphic picture of what happens in the spiritual realm when believers do not love and serve each other.” (The MacArthur Study Bible)

In John 13:35 Jesus says, “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” In His High Priestly Prayer in John 17, Jesus says twice that if believers are united then unbelievers would know that He was sent from God. How we treat one another is an essential part of our witness. We cannot afford to allow our inevitable disagreements to turn nasty. Otherwise our witness is destroyed. Meanwhile, the world is watching.