Where is your brother?

In Genesis 4:9,Cain had just murdered Abel ,his brother, when his offering of the fruit of the ground was rejected by God.After this horrific murder God asked Cain,"Where is your brother?"Cain responded with,"Am I my brother's keeper?"God today is asking those in the local church this same question,"Where is your Brother?" Where are all those you caused to stumble in your religious zeal to fulfill the eternal purpose of God? The answer has been the same among them,"Am I my brother's keeper?"A modern day translation could be rendered,"Who cares,we are going on,and we are for the Lord's recovery!"

If we say we are God's recovery,then we need to ask what is God's attitude toward His saints?In Matt.18,it says that even if one sheep goes astray,the Lord will leave the 99 sheep and look for the one.How many times in the local church have you seen sheep(saints)cut off or stumbled and no one pursues them?The bible also says,"If we say that we love God and hate our brothers we are liars." How can we say we are walking in the light and practice dark things that stumble the saints? These dark things can be anything even religious things that stumble God's people. In 2tim.3:1 warns us that in these last days perilous times shall come.Could it be that the local churches have become "boasters","proud","headstrong","unforgiving","unloving", and have a "form"of godliness but deny its power ?If this is not the case,then how can they for many years not seek that which was driven away when God does?How can they say we are "one" with all christians when they stumble and cut off saints by their practices?How can they say they are "one"with God when they neglect His ministry of reconciliation?

This question is just as relevant today to the local church as it was thousands of years ago to Cain,"Where is your Brother?"At your Lord's table,prayer meetings,conferences,and gatherings may this question echo within your collective consciences and throughout your fellowships,"Where is your brother?"Will you go find him and repent for your stumbling ways or will you like Cain answer the Lord saying,"Am I my brother's keeper?" If you won't repent,then the souls of many stumbled saints will cry out to God from the ground as a testimony against you.