Hereby know we love, because He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:16
from the fountain.
---The one great object-lesson of love is Christ laying down His life for us.
---We ought in like manner to lay down our lives for the brethren.
We may do this many times, day after day; for Jesus was laying down His life when, without sparing himself, He went about healing the sick, as truly as when He was nailed to the cross.
His life was laid down for others from the beginning, and was never taken up for His own benefit.
Q: And who are "the brethren" for whom we ought to lay down our lives?
A: The answer is found in those for whom Christ laid down His life. It was while we were enemies that we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son."
E.J. Waggoner