Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 22nd March 2017 in Lent | Lent,great lent,fasting,early church fathers,devotional,daily reading,Cyprian,Bishop of Carthage,unity
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love”. Using 1 Cor 13 to back up his point, Cyprian goes on to say that though they may die or do works, to do it without
love and unity of the Church, it is nothing; to not remain in the unified brotherly
love of the Church Body is to go against what John wrote in 1 John 4:7-8;12 too.
“For both to prophesy and to cast out devils, and to do great acts upon the earth is certainly a sublime and an admirable thing” – but these things do not guarantee the Kingdom to you, as Jesus made clear in Matthew 7:21-23, “unless he walks in the observance of the right and just way” of Christ and the Church, as outlined by Jesus in Mark 12:29-31, which te...