Jesus Loves Us Perfectly

John 13:1

Well, tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. We celebrate a relational love! I want to discuss today, the origin of love, God!

Colossians 3:14 “And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”

The word charity is defined as love........Agape is the Greek word.......

There some different versions of this word, but it’s root is the same.....it just simply means LOVE!

God is the essence of that love, God did not create love, He is love! We will read that later and we will also understand why it is the bond of perfection.

One more thing about Agape love, it is a love of the will. It is not motivated by anything, where as a lot of the love that we show is motivated by something.

God’s love is not from a response to what we have done.

No, we haven’t done anything to be attractive to God! Matter of fact, even on our best day we are filthy rags.

Out of His pure will He loves us, this is called Grace (Undeserved Favor)!

God’s love is unselfish, it is not based on emotion, He loves us without condition.

The issue at hand is whether or not we love Him!

Let’s read this 1 verse and I will set this up for you..........John 13:1.........

The passover feast was approaching, in just a few hours they would begin to sacrifice the Passover lamb as custom. In reality, in that short period of time Jesus was going to be the True Passover Lamb for us.

I read a commentary that said Jesus must of experienced that crucifixion a million times before He actually was nailed to the cross.

It sure seems to suggest that by His sweat turning to drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Anyway, Jesus was preparing to have this last supper/feast with the disciples before He left for the cross. He had many things to show them and teach them. They were going to be left in this world to deliver the Gospel and they needed to taught these things.

This was intense for Jesus, but as all of this going on and being prepared, the disciples, according to Luke 22, were debating over who of them would be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Also, it was customary in those days to have the feet washed of anyone that came to your house. Not one of the disciples, washed Jesus’ feet.

Here, is where we see the True Love of God as the disciples (us) were busy about with their selfish thoughts and actions, Jesus was busy about preparing to give Himself for them (us). He also in this time ministered to them.

Instead of a slave/servant washing their feet, in which no one did, Jesus will begin to wash all of their feet.

With all the conditions we place on love......it would be hard to love these guys completely, but Jesus (God the Son) makes the difference. He is above us or anything we can think.

With all that in mind......we read that verse again: John 13:1 “Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.”

He loved those that believed, during His earthly ministry, He even loves them completely!

That phrase “to the end” carries the meaning of perfectly, completely, to the max, uttermost, fully!

There is no limit to the capacity of God’s love, time doesn’t change it, events doesn’t change it, emotions doesn’t dictate it........God is Love complete!

All of what we read and believe about God is all motivated by His love. You might say it is the source of our beginning!

Not love that arose at this moment; having loved them, already loved them.  He loved them all along.  He loved them before they knew Him.  Love.  Love.

Jesus’ farewell discourse, Chapters 13-17 of John’s Gospel is about God’s love, most of John’s writings are of God’s love..

Chapter 13, as we read begins with Love, the last verse of John 17 ends with love.......John 17:26 “And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

This is the motivation, Love, love, love, love, love........John doesn’t ever refer to himself as John, but “the disciple whom Jesus loved”........John must have been so overwhelmed by the love of Christ, he couldn’t refer to himself any other way!

Maybe, we need to start referring to our self as the one whom Jesus loved! Maybe, with that realized within us, we can in turn show His love to the world.

All the grace, all the mercy, all the boundless blessings, all the lavish gifts that are poured out forever on those who belong to Him are the product of this infinite divine love.  And with full knowledge of their ignorance, full understanding of their selfishness, weakness, failure, cowardice, doubt, denial – all of the things that He knows, not only what they’ve done, but what they will do.  In the face of all of that, all these promises are poured out, and it’s all motivated by love undeserved. It’s about grace.

Beyond the failures and imperfections, God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, loves us to completely!

It has no gaps, no time off, no imperfections, all of His love is all the time!

You might ask, If that is the case then why is there suffering?

I think we forget that we chose this fallen world, God had one prepared but we selfishly chose another way.

Many divorces are based upon this, however God is not fallen......Romans 5:8 “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Jesus Christ is the demonstration of God’s love! His love is not conditional, He gave it even when we didn’t love Him! Now, we must choose to love or not!

1 John 4:7-21.............

For Love is of God

Loving with God’s love is the evidence of being born again with Jesus Christ!

That is how you test the spirits!

Verse 10.......True is from God...... “not that we loved, but He loved us”

We have no dog in this hunt, everything is based on His love and it changes us!