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THIS IS MY COMMANDMENT
By Rev. Will Nelken
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Presented at Trinity Community Church, San Rafael, CA, on Sunday, February 13, 2022
It’s in the air…
It’s what the world needs now…
It will keep us together…
It’s all you need…
Just the way you are…
At last!
February is the month of… LOVE.
Of course, that’s only “romantic love,” which as most of us know, is only passing, like the swell
of a wave, that lifts you momentarily.
At one time in my life, it was the only kind of love that I cared about and dreamt about.
The
love of my parents, which had sustained and guided me for two decades, was not enough to
fulfill me.
And then I met Jesus Christ.
He swept me off my feet with another kind of love that completed
me, and has filled me again and again for the last (almost) fifty years!
Do you know His love today?
You really must!
I want everyone to know Him—personally and perpetually.
One of Jesus’ disciples, John, came to know Him that way.
John was called “the disciple whom
Jesus loved.”
John was not the only one, but he may have been the one most aware of it in the
early days.
The love of God that shined through Jesus Christ became a consistent theme of John’s letters
and books.
Jesus was quoted as speaking about it more often by John than others.
It moved
him.
As it moves me.
Let me share with you one of my favorite passages on this subject:
John 15:9-17 (NASB)
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“Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.
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“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s
commandments and abide in His love.
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“These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be
made full.
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“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
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“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
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“You are My friends if you do what I command you.
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“No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I
have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to
you.
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“You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit,
and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may
give to you.
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“This I command you, that you love one another.
His Command… But HOW?
It’s one thing to be told you must do something, and another to know HOW to do it.
But Jesus
did not leave us without instruction.
“Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you.”
The love of God began with the Father, who created all things.
Love was His idea.
Love was His
plan.
Because “God is love.”
The Son of God came into our world—Jesus was born in Bethlehem—as a direct result of God’s
love for humanity.
He was the Answer to our confusion and waywardness.
And God loved Him
throughout His life among us.
He announced it on the day that John the Baptizer introduced Him to the crowd gathered at
the Jordan River: “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased.”
“Just as I have loved you, you love one another.”
Like Father, like Son.
Jesus, in turn, spread the love of the Father to the people of His day.
He mended broken
hearts.
He healed the sick.
He cleansed the diseased.
He gave sight to the blind.
He restored
the crippled.
He even raised the dead.
To the penitent, Jesus offered no words of condemnation—only hope and mercy.
Only hope
and mercy.
He chose twelve men to “be with” Him.
For almost four years they lived and traveled together.
Day and night He was with them.
He patiently taught them.
He never forsook them.
They didn’t understand Him.
They thought they had better ideas.
They became frustrated.
They argued.
But they wouldn’t leave Him, because He consistently loved them.
He accepted
them just the way they were.
And they became better people.
The result?
“My joy… your joy!”
That’s what love—real love—does.
It’s like an artesian well of joy.
Ask anybody who has fallen
in love!
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