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Christ Our Friend.
John Newton
“Christ a Friend”
1 One there is, above all others,
Well deserves the name of Friend;
His is love beyond a brother’s –
Costly, free, and knows no end;
They who once his kindness prove,
Find it everlasting love.
2 Which of all our friends, to save us,
Could or would have shed his blood;
But our Jesus died to have us
Reconciled in him to God.
This was boundless love indeed!
Jesus is a Friend indeed!
3 O for grace our hearts to soften!
Teach us, Lord, at length to love;
We, alas! forget too often
What a Friend we have above.
But when home our souls are brought,
We will praise thee as we ought.
John Newton was the one who penned the words of probably the most famous hymn sung in our country at least today.
He wrote Amazing Grace.
perhaps you know his story.
john Newton was a dreadfully wicked man.
He was sailor, known as The Great Blasphemer, but God brought John Newton low.
John Newton was saved on a ship in the middle of the ocean thinking that he was about to lose his life.
He later peened the words of amazing grace.
What is amazing to me is that a man who called himself a wretch, later in life after having been saved, can write a hymn and presumably sing about the friendship he has in Christ.
We come to a passage today that really causes us to think through the friendship we have in Christ, and how we should be living in light of his friendship to us.
Recap from last week.
We are told how to abide in his love.
We are given his example.
And its to obey his commands.
then we ask the question: Well what are his commands?
In light of remaining in the love of Christ, and abiding in the vine, the disciples here are going to be commanded to love each other the way the Christ has loved them.
This isn’t a new command.
The Old Testament taught this as well.
In fact, Jesus has said this before.
Over in , a lawyer is questioning Jesus and asked him:
Matthew 22:36-
All these laws that these Pharisees are trying to keep are bound up into love of God and love of Neighbor.
WHat do you love with?
Your heart.
if love of neighbor and love of God is what all the prophets and Law are about, then we know that God is about your heart.
What Jesus says in 40 shows us that he is about the heart of his people, not simply a checking off of a box for rules.
So this is isn’t a new commandment.
This is a command that is as old as the earth itself.
All the Law and the prophets according to Jesus rest on the Love of God and Love for One Another.
But up until this point they don’t have a good reference for that.
Ever since sin entered the world, friendship and love has been marred by its presence.
We have no perfect examples of love and friendship, until Christ.
Explain..
All human relationships in the OT are flawed because of the fall.
Every relationship is flawed.
Every marriage
Every friendship.
We may have several good examples but we don’t have a perfect one, until Christ.
This is why Paul says in
We finally in Christ have a perfect example of
Relationship
Marriage
Friendship
I love how Jesus doesn’t leave this vague here.
He grounds their obedience in His obedience.
He gives them a reference point and a measuring rod for their love for each other.
THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO MEASURE THEM SELVES BY CHRIST
If they we want to know how we are doing when it comes to loving each other within the church, we just look at how Christ has loved us and measure our selves towards that.
Too often, we don’t love each other well because we have the wrong standard of measurement for our love.
We measure our love based upon reciprocated love.
(Do they love us back?)
1.
We measure our love based upon reciprocated love.
(Do they love us back?)
We often measure our love based upon worldly norms.
(Will I look like a fool if I keep loving this person?)(Will
I look like a fool if I keep loving this person despite the fact that they do me wrong?)
Fool me once…
It all boils to: We measure our love by how we’ve been loved by other sinful people.
But thats not how our love should be measured according to Christ here.
Jesus here, knows our tendency toward this. he knows the disciples’ tendency toward this, and so He grounds their love in perfect love.
And he demonstrates His love in the greatest possible way.
And He gives them the greatest possible way that anyone can love anyone.
Just a quick question:
What can you give, and once you have given it, you can literally give no more?
Yourself.
Your life.
Listen to what Jesus says here:
Softly
The most Jesus could give was His life.
And He did.
For His friends.
We know Christ loved us for many reason but two ways i want to point out we know Christ loves us.
And We know that he loves us by how much it cost him to love us.
We know that he loves us, because we don’t deserve his love and yet He gives it so freely
And He does this “for His friends”
lay down his life for his friends
and He qualifies this in verse 14
He is going to tell us who his friends are.
in other words, you prove to be friends of christ by your obedience to Christ/
It is a relationship grounded upon the love of Christ, and responded to by the obedience of His followers.
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