Keep United by Love

14. What kind of clothing should we keep wearing, and so by what quality must Jehovah’s people show that they are his witnesses?

¹⁴ Satan the Devil and his hostile world will keep on trying to break up our ranks, but the love that is the dominant fruit of God’s spirit will continue to prove its perfection as a “bond of union.” In putting on the “new personality,” we clothe ourselves with love, as the apostle Paul told us to do, and we must wear it continually as a part of our personality that bears the image of God. When giving final instructions to his disciples, the Son of God said: “I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.” (John 13:34, 35) How appropriate those words were from the Son of God, for his heavenly Father, Jehovah, is love personified, and we must make known to all mankind that we are truly His witnesses by cultivating the fruit of His spirit, which is love!

15. In expression of their love for God, whom also must Jehovah’s Witnesses love?

¹⁵ To be consistent with our love for Jehovah, we must love our fellow witnesses. In verification of this, 1 John 4:20, 21 reminds us: “If anyone makes the statement: ‘I love God,’ and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot be loving God, whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him, that the one who loves God should be loving his brother also.”

16. Why can Jehovah’s Witnesses not keep from loving one another, and why will love never be stamped out of the earth?

¹⁶ In exemplification of that principle, Jehovah’s Witnesses of today, regardless of whether they belong to the spirit-begotten joint heirs of the King Jesus Christ or they belong to the “great crowd” of the “other sheep” with their earthly Paradise hope, sincerely love one another. How could we keep from loving those who are lovers of Jehovah God and his beloved Son Jesus Christ? We do love them and by this we are bound together with that “perfect bond of union.” Despite all that Satan the Devil and his wicked world may strive to do to destroy this fruit of Jehovah’s spirit, love will never be stamped out of the earth. Those who keep clothed with love down to the destruction of this devilish system of things will be protected by their loyal God through the “great tribulation” such as this earth has never yet experienced. (Matthew 24:21; Galatians 5:22) In this way only lovers of God and of his family, his organization, will survive and enter into the cleansed earth that is to be transformed into a glorious Paradise. That Paradise will never be wiped out but will evermore be inhabited and beautified by human personifications of love. Love will gain an eternal triumph to the glory of the divine Source of love, Jehovah God.

Love on the part of Jehovah’s Witnesses will enable them to endure to the end of this old system of things. The more that they exercise love among themselves and toward those seeking to come into relationship with Jehovah God the stronger that “perfect bond of union” becomes.