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*Sermon* Type: Expository Tad Wychopen II
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*Text*: John 13:34-35 Preaching Practicum
*Title*: A New Commandment
*Proposition*: You must be known by your Christ-like love for others.
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*Introduction*
~~Puppy love has sent many a young man to the dogs.
~~To marry a woman for her beauty is like buying a house for its paint.
What kind of person are you known as? Are you known as a person that is filled with pride, arrogance, and selfishness; or are you known as a person that is filled with love.
There is a story of a guy that was full of love, but it had a wrong outcome.
Rene Jobin was deeply in love but the girl’s parents would not even allow her to see him.
While pacing the front of her house, he noticed a fire alarm strategically located beside the building.
He had a flaming idea.
He thought that if he pulled the alarm, the fire engines would come thundering, and in the commotion, the people in the house would all rush out.
He would have a chance to sneak off with her even for a few minutes.
It worked.
While pa and ma joined the firemen frantically looking for the fire, Rene and the girl had a blissful few minutes, vowing eternal devotion.
It worked again the next time.
In fact, it worked eight times.
The Montreal Fire Department was driven crazy.
The ninth time was different!
The officials had set a watch and Rene was caught.
The lovelorn girl is hoping that by the time he got out, he wouldn’t be too old to marry her.
That is not the kind of love we should be known for.
We should be known for love that influences others for Christ.
Your love must be willing to sacrifice and follow Christ.
Your love for others is the strongest argument for your faith in Christ.
You must be known by your Christ-like love for others.
*Outline*
John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
*I.
A new kind of love.
V. 34*
*Explanation*: There was always a command to love each other, but that commandment was talking about loving your neighbor as yourself.
That is a very difficult task to accomplish considering how much man loves himself.
This command to love your neighbor as yourself was given back in Leviticus.
Lev 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, /but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself:/ I am the LORD.
This was not a new thing for the disciples to hear.
They had heard this before (Mat.
5:43, 19:19, 23:39; Mark 12:29,31; Luke 10:27) that they were to love each other.
The new precept given was to love others as Christ loved them.
This would be a sacrificial, forgiving, and confronting type of love.
The commandment to love was not new, but there was a new motive to love: to love our neighbor because Christ has loved us.
Jesus had set the example for his disciples.
He was not expecting anyone to do anything that he has not already done himself.
We should examine the different aspects of Christ’s love.
*A.
Sacrificial Love*.
Eph 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a /sacrifice/ to God for a sweet-smelling savor.
Heb 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the /sacrifice/ of himself.
*Explanation*: Christ had just shown the disciples how to have sacrificial love.
The disciples would know why Christ is saying, “to love one another just as I have loved you.”
Christ almost could have said, “Love as I have just shown you.”
In the beginning of this chapter, Christ washed the disciple’s feet.
This was a clear example of Christ’s humble, self-sacrificing love for them.
Christ gave himself to be a sacrifice for mankind.
He sacrificed his life by dying on the cross for our sins.
He also gave of his whole life here on earth to serve man.
The meaning of the word “love” or “agape” used in verse 34 is a self-sacrificing love and giving of oneself.
Christ gave himself for us.
He sacrificed all glory and honor to die a criminal’s death upon the cross.
He even died for the people that hate his name and despise him.
*Application*: It is so easy to love yourself.
It is even easy to love people that love you.
How do you do when you there is someone that is annoying and pestering?
Is your love constantly sacrificing?
Do you sacrifice your time to Christ? Teenagers, you can be a great help to your youth leader or your pastor.
You should be willing to sacrifice your time to serve your pastor.
People, are you willing to give up of the things of this world and sacrifice your life to Christ? /Love isn’t giving when others are giving … It’s giving when others are not giving/.
You must be known by your Christ-like love for others.
*Illustration*: “You love to preach, don’t you?” asked Henry Ward Beecher of a young minister.
“I surely do,” was the glowing reply.
“But do you love the people to whom you preach?”
Beecher then asked.
*B.
Forgiving Love*
Eph 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Col 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
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*Explanation ~/Application: *This love is to be forgiving as Christ forgave us of our sins.
Christ gave us unmerited forgiveness.
We did not deserve any forgiveness from our sins.
Christ’s love went so far that it reached down to sinful, undeserving man and gave him the ability to have the forgiveness of sins.
Nothing is too great for us to forgive.
God forgave from our sin and rebellion.
With love like Christ’s, we can forgive others as Christ forgave us.
You must be known by your Christ-like love for others.
*Application*: In a recent chapel service bulletin from Chaplain Wendell C. Hawley, comes a classic illustration of forgiveness.
When the Moravian missionaries first went to the Eskimos, they could not find a word in their language for forgiveness, so they had to compound one.
This turned out to be: Issumagijoujungnainermik.
It is a formidable-looking assembly of letters, but an expression that has a beautiful connotation for those who understand it.
It means: “Not-being-able-to-think-about-it-anymore.”
*II.
A Visible Kind of Love.*
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*~~*Christ like love can never be a hidden or secret thing.
It must be seen by all and felt by all.~~
*A.
Seen By All.
V 35*
*Explanation*: Genuine, deep-seated, constant, and self-sacrificing love for one another is the distinguishing trait of the Christian.
This love is an overflow of what God has done in our heart.
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