Love One Another
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Love One Another - John 13:18-40
Love One Another - John 13:18-40
When Someone is Near Death, Their Last Words Carry Special Significance!
When Someone is Near Death, Their Last Words Carry Special Significance!
Summary of John 13:18-30
Summary of John 13:18-30
When he had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
“Lord,” Simon Peter said to him, “where are you going?”
Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.”
“Lord,” Peter asked, “why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly I tell you, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times.
Point #1: Peter Was Absolutely Certain of the Extent of His Love for Jesus, Peter Learned a Difficult Lesson!
Point #1: Peter Was Absolutely Certain of the Extent of His Love for Jesus, Peter Learned a Difficult Lesson!
Point #2: As Jesus Was Going to the Cross, Loving Each Other Was the Thing That He Wanted His Followers to Get Right!
Point #2: As Jesus Was Going to the Cross, Loving Each Other Was the Thing That He Wanted His Followers to Get Right!
When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Feed my lambs,” he told him. A second time he asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said to him, “you know that I love you.”
“Shepherd my sheep,” he told him.
He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was grieved that he asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.”
“Feed my sheep,” Jesus said. “Truly I tell you, when you were younger, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.” He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God. After saying this, he told him, “Follow me.”
Point #3: Peter’s Reinstatement Was All About Loving and Caring For Others!
Point #3: Peter’s Reinstatement Was All About Loving and Caring For Others!
So Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved following them, the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is the one that’s going to betray you?” When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him?”
“If I want him to remain until I come,” Jesus answered, “what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”
So this rumor spread to the brothers and sisters that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not tell him that he would not die, but, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”
This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.
Point #4: This is the Apostle John’s Testimony, They Call His the Apostle of Love Because the Taught that Loving Each Other Was Most Important!
Point #4: This is the Apostle John’s Testimony, They Call His the Apostle of Love Because the Taught that Loving Each Other Was Most Important!