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The Relationship Question
INTRO - Story… Cousin Jay… fight over my sister’s teapot.
FF 4 years later, inseparable.
Recorded wedding videos… not many, but a few.
Question #5: What does love require of me?
Here’s one thing I can guess about you...
You do not envision your future alone.
There’s somebody alongside you.
Maybe they’re already there.
Maybe not.
Perhaps you’re looking for that somebody.
The question will equip you to choose that right somebody.
But the benefit, the benefit of this question will extend beyond that special somebody.
This question, it has the potential to enhance the quality of every relationship.
It has the power to restore and heal broken relationships.
It has the power to rekindle romance.
It has the potential to restore what has been lost.
BUT there’s a catch...
IT MAY NOT WORK.
The other questions that we’ve studied… you’ll always come out ahead discovering WHY you’re doing what you’re doing… really.
The first four questions always yield a favorable return, and oftentimes immediately, but always eventually.
This question is different.
There is likely not going to be a tangible, measurable, or even noticeable return for your effort here.
This question is not about making YOUR life better.
It’s about making SOMEONE ELSE’S life better, which may make your life better, but it may not.
So why bother?
Well, I’m glad that you asked that question...
Buckle in.
The GOLDEN RULE
You’ve heard this before, right?
Point out that this in the bulletin.
Stall so that they can right it down.
(Chris, keep it up as long as possible)
This is the Golden rule.
And as we look at it today
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So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
You see, Jesus had been pointing his followers that there was a new kingdom, a kingdom that would be different than what they experienced in 1st century Palestine.
He pointed that it was all centered around a relationship… with Him.
Not only that, but Jesus claimed that he had the ability to forgive sin, and thereby negating the need for this system associated with the temple in Jerusalem.
So, you see, when he entered into Jerusalem for his final visit, everyone had all these expectations of him that were political, and messianic.
He had their attention, but they didn’t understand his intentions.
Not until the night of his arrest.
That’s when he made his intentions so crystal clear that they were frightening.
For example, he says this to them...
For several in his presence, and specifically Peter… they didn’t hear anything after that.
The earth had a gigantic crack in it.
Jesus was their everything.
He was their security blanket, and if he was going missing, they were afraid that they would go missing as well, and not in a good way.
Besides, why leave now?
They were on the verge of a revolution.
The kingdom of Israel was about to be restored.
It’s right after this that Jesus gives them a new command...
Underline these two phrases here… Love one another and As I have loved you.
First off, Jesus is NOT commanding to feel something.
He is commanding them to DO something.
But loving one another wasn’t anything new to them.
But Jesus wasn’t done.
What Jesus said next changes the world.
What came next takes the Golden Rule to the next level.
As I (Jesus) have loved you.
“As I have loved you.”
I know you underlined this, but circle it for me.
Because this… this is new.
This is borderline blasphemous.
You see, doing for other as you would hope that they would do for you was… well, old fashioned.
Jesus instructs his followers to do unto one another as he had done unto them.
You see, we modern generation, and btw - I mean anyone born since 200 a.d.
Anyone here born before that?
Nope… looking out on the internet… no hands.
Okay, so all of us.
We modern people read “As I have loved you” and we think of the cross.
Let me rewind the clock here.
As Jesus commands his disciples, the cross hasn’t happened yet.
So they didn’t think of the cross.
The thought back over the previous 36 months.
Perhaps each man in the room thinks back to a specific moment in time when Jesus had loved THEM INDIVIDUALLY WELL.
He could have called them out one by one.
Peter… remember that time we went to your house and your mother-in-law was sick?
Andrew, remember that time you were throwing a net over the wrong side of a boat?
Matthew, remember when you were working for Rome… as a theif.
Remember what I said to you that day?
Yes sir.
You invited me to follow you.
Nobody had ever done that before.
Nobody ever gave me or my life a second thought.
-Exactly.
Peter, Andrew, Matthew… extend that same grace to everyone you meet for the rest of your life.
As I have loved you, so you must…
And the biggest thing… was what Jesus didn’t say.
He could have said “Gentlemen… if you think that you’ve seen me love… tighten your seatbelts, cause you ain’t seen nothing yet.”
Because the next day, he would put on a demonstrating of love that would take their breath away.
He would give his life away.
Jesus continued…
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
I almost want to let that sink in… I almost want to sit down right here… but I want to follow up with something that is as close to a commentary on what Jesus did as it is an incredible insight made by Paul.
But first, a humor break...
There was a woman who wanted to get mad at her husband from time to time.
So she said “Whenever he ticks me off, I just text him a picture of the thermostat set to 72 degrees.”
lol?
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