The title of today’s message is “Kumbaya” The term “kumbaya” has come to be associated with universal love or the love for all humanity. The Peanuts character Linus once admitted, “I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand!” There are a lot of people in the world who claim to love all of humanity, while at the same time having a lot of difficulty even loving their nearest neighbors.
As we will learn in today’s lesson, the universal love for mankind that is denoted in the word “kumbaya” is not the same love the author of Hebrews is speaking of when he uses the term “brotherly love.” Brotherly love is personal and sincere and should be a way of life for every Christian.
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