When we talk about love to our neighbour, we have a concept based on always doing good to others, regardless whether they harm us. It turns out that when it comes to do good to others, we focus more on giving good standardized treatment, this is good and biblical. However, today the Word of God wants to take us to another dimension of love to our neighbour.

Just to help someone who confuses love with feelings like passion, enchantment, physical attraction, and obsession, let me say that whoever loves is ready and willing to suffer all kinds of things for the sake of the other. The Bible says in I Corinthians 13 that love is suffering, and kind (I Corinthians 13: 4) and whoever loves hope all things and endures all things (I Corinthians 13: 7).

I say: whoever loves you doesn’t hurt you, but is ready for you to do harm him, to forgive you and life continues to maintain communion and vice versa.

Returning to the subject of other dimension of love to our neighbour… Read with me John 15:12 “This is my commandment:  love each other in the same way I have loved you.”

Let us also read Ephesians 5: 25-27 “You husbands, love your wife, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, to sanctify her, purifying her with the washing of water, by the word, to present her to himself as a glorious church, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but holy and irreprehensible ”.

Before Jesus came to earth in physical form, the commandment about loving your neighbour was: love your neighbour as yourself (Matthew 22:39). However, Jesus in the last recommendations that he left to his disciples summarized all 10 commandments in one, instead of telling us to love our neighbours as ourselves, He commanded us to love our neighbours as He loved us.

The question now is: how did Jesus love us? The answer is in Ephesians 5: 25-27. In other words, Jesus Christ loved us by purifying us with the Word so that in his eyes we may be holy and blameless. Hallelujah!

Jesus said to love each other, not to love anyway or in our own way but to love the way He loved us.

Loving each other as Jesus loved us is for those who know a portion of the Word of God, helping those who are lost to know God's way. It is giving yourself to lead your neighbour to the path of holiness.

You can’t let your neighbour be reprehensible and remain quiet. To love your neighbour as Jesus loved is to do your part, using all the resources of the Word of God so that your brother be holy and irreprehensible. If your neighbour walks on paths that displease God, it can’t be because you haven’t done your part.

He becomes our next saint and irreprehensible by announcing to him the Word of God, as the Holy Spirit places in our hearts. We can't play preaching, there must be responsibility, because there is a time to build, comfort, and exhort. When we exclude exhortation and edification and spend life only comforting the other, we are playing and being irresponsible.

This kind of irresponsibility will take our neighbour to hell, despite going to church. There are conditions for receiving God's reward. No one will inherit eternal life by doing things that the Scriptures say not do. The Kingdom of God is neither food nor drink (Romans 14:17).

The fact that we live by grace doesn’t mean that we can design our standards of holiness and perfection in accordance with sin. The Bible says in Romans 6: 1-2b “What shall we say then? Shall we remain in sin, so that grace may be more abundant? Not at all."

When you don't use the Word of God to make your neighbour holy and irreprehensible in God’s eyes, you don’t love your neighbour. On the contrary, you are leading your neighbour to hell. When you shut up too.

Sin is sin. Jesus sat among sinners to teach them the way of God, leading them to repentance (Matthew 9:13). This is an act of loving your neighbour.

Don’t take the sheep of God to hell with false biblical interpretation because this is diabolical. Cooperate with Jesus to bring people to repentance, and to bear fruit of repentance. If your neighbour is lost, correct him. A scolded who runs away from church is better than an undisciplined who remains.

The Bible says in Hebrews 12: 7-8 “If you endure discipline, God treats you as children; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons”.

When your neighbour practices iniquity and you do nothing, you are letting him to get lost. This is lack of love to our neighbour. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 23:2a "No bastard will enter into the assembly of the Lord".

Any exhortation or discipline must be done with patience, with the intention to help or build our neighbour. The Bible says in II Timothy 4: 2 “Preach the word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favourable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching”.

Attention! It is not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of God (Zechariah 4: 6). The Bible tells us to rebuke the person up to two times, about the same problem, after that, just leave and pray for him (Titus 3:10; I Timothy 2: 1-4).

Scolding the other sometimes seems like treating them badly, but it is not mistreatment. To do harm is to leave your neighbourgo to hell because of iniquity. Jesus says in Revelation 3:19 “I rebuke and chasten as many as I love, therefore be zealous and repent”.

You must lead your neighbour into God's way, even if the world bothers you. When you don’t, you become an enemy of Jesus, for the Word of God says in John 15:14 “You are my friends if you do what I command.”