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Love Where You Live
Loving the 720,000
Jeff Jones, Senior Pastor
May 21~/23, 2010
Have you ever felt like you were created for something bigger?
You know, you are living your life, going through the mundane-ness of every day…wake up, brush your teeth, a quick shower, get dressed, a little Count Chocula to wake up the digestive system, and then go through the day.
Don’t you have times where you’ve got to think there must be more to life than that, as you are eating the Chocula maybe, that there must be some bigger purpose to live for?
The truth is, you do have a bigger something to live for.
As we just saw on the video, we are not just here.
We’ve been sent here.
We are here on mission.
If you are a Christ-follower, you are a sent person, a person on mission.
You aren’t just here.
You are here with a mission.
Today is a big day for our church, because today we are going to focus on that something bigger, on our mission and vision given to us by Jesus 2000 years ago.
Today we are going to talk about what that means to each one of us, and where we believe God is leading our church to go over these next few years.
Today is such a big day that we want to chronicle it, so you’ll see to my left someone will do so in a very artistic way while I speak.
If you have your Bibles, turn to John 13, where Jesus is giving the something bigger to the disciples, passing on the mission.
Jesus is spending time with his disciples, knowing that this would be the last time they spend together before he would be arrested and crucified.
So, he is preparing them for all that is to come.
They are eating the last meal that they will eat together before all that happens.
In verse 33, he says,
Slide: ____________________ ) John 13: 33
/My children, I will be with you only a little longer.
You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.
/
This is a big moment.
He has already told them about his imminent arrest and death, and now it is here.
He’s about to leave them, so whatever he says next is big, because they are his last words—like a movie, where someone is dying, and they look up and say, “Uh….”
Or maybe they get more out, like, “Tell my wife I love her.” Or, “The treasure map is in my saddle bags.”
You’ve got to listen to those last words.
He says,
Slide: ____________________ ) John 13: 34a
/A new command I give you.
/Ok, this is getting good.
He’s giving them their marching orders.
He’s leaving them, but before he does, he is giving them a new command—something bigger to do.
The way he says it was very dramatic too…a new command.
You can almost hear the drum roll, because the Greek word he uses for “new” is not the normal word for new.
It means novel, never-before-seen, a completely new, never before heard command.
Jesus also changes the normal sentence order to make “new command” emphatic.
This is big.
The disciples lean in so that they can hear it, this whole new thing that world has never before seen.
This is going to be great.
Totally new, and here it comes:
Slide: ____________________ ) John 13: 34
/A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another./
That command fell flat as a pancake.
Very anti-climactic.
Love one another?
That’s it?
That’s the new thing?
I mean something like, “We’re going to the moon, and dropping pamphlets on top of planet earth.”
That would have been new, never-before-seen.
Even saying something like, “Wear only purple.”
That would have been novel, but “Love one another.”
Kind of a let-down, a little anti-climactic.
And we know that by their response.
Peter just ignores that statement, and says, “What do you mean you are going away where we can’t go?
Where are you going?”
And all the disciples camp out on that for a while, so they don’t key in on what Jesus was saying.
Jesus has to bring it back up in chapter 15, this new command to love one another, and by this all will know that they are genuinely disciples of his.
This love everybody stuff sounds nice, but that’s not new.
The Old Testament tells us to love our neighbor.
Jesus often talked about loving others, just as we saw a couple of weeks ago in the Good Samaritan story.
How is this command to love one another “new?”
They didn’t get it at the time, but what Jesus was saying was really new and really big.
What was new was this new community of radical love, what we call church, this group of people who are committed to radical love to each other that spills out into the world.
This wasn’t a sweet little statement.
This was a radical and dangerous statement, giving them their marching orders.
They were to create a community of people who follow him by demonstrating radical love, crazy love, and by that love people would know that Christianity is real and that Jesus is alive.
And 2000 years ago, that is exactly what happened.
After the resurrection of Jesus, this new community lives out the new command.
They form this new community called church that exists to show radical love.
And because they did, they turned their world upside down.
The world had never seen this before, not this kind of radical love poured out.
Because they did what Jesus commanded, in just decades, this little upstart religion based around a crucified founder, which should have whimpered away, went gangbusters and took over the known world.
That’s one of the biggest questions that bother historians who look back to the era of the early church.
Christianity should have just died off.
It was this obscure, persecuted little tiny group of people…but they turned the world upside down.
Historians have long asked, “Why?
How did this happen?”
And they all point to the same major contributing factor.
This was a group of people committed to radical love.
They won the world over with love.
We talk about come as you are, be transformed, and make a difference.
That’s all about radical love, and that’s what the early church did.
They created the first “come as you are” culture in a group of people.
Ancient Roman culture was very class conscience.
The wealthy ruling class never mixed with peasants.
Roman and Jewish culture was very sexist; women weren’t considered equals.
Judaism at the time in Israel was also very racist.
Jews didn’t mix with Gentiles.
Races didn’t mix.
But in Christianity, they did.
Christianity was the first group where distinctions of sex, race, class, or money just didn’t matter.
In Christianity, it was “come as you are,” a community of radical love shown by radical acceptance.
As a result, Christianity attracted many who were on the margins of culture—because they were equals in Christianity but nowhere else.
Christianity was also a place of radical love in the “Be Transformed” area too.
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