The Foundational One Another

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May your word do its work in our hearts and may we grow in the grace and the knowledge of the one soul of us that he gave himself to us in his name.
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Amen.
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He's giving us a sheet.
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Full work.
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Full work.
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Ready to get acclimatized, systems off.
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That's just a cool looking word.
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That's why I wrote it up there.
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That is the Greek word for one another.
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And I put these down here because if you're ever looking through your interliterary, I don't know how many of y'all use interliterary, but you'll see that it has, at times, it has different endings.
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These are just determining how it fits within the sentence.
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That's all.
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I lay on, that is the Greek word, although ours is in two words, one another.
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Y'all can't see that? Okay.
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It is one another.
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It's in one in Greek.
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It's used over a hundred times in the Bible.
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I think we have 36 here.
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A lot of times it's used more than once.
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And one of those, it's used multiple times, and we'll do that one today.
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And I'm going to be just honest.
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I'm not beginning with Mark 950.
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And the reason being is, I'm going to erase this.
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And he put those in order as they come in.
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But John 1334 begins with the foundational one another's, which is love.
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All the other one another's flow out of love.
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As we look at this text, remember, if we come to John 1334 or Mark 950, we just come to those verses in and of themselves.
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We come into what's called a pretext, which means we pull that verse out.
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We're just going to quote that verse and just look at that verse.
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Remember, every verse has a pretext, but every verse fits within a context, which means a larger scope of what he's talking about.
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So what we're going to do is we're going to go to John 13.
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And I'm going to be honest, too.
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I don't even know if I'm going to get to Mark 9.
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I'm going to try.
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Maybe I could land the plane very quickly there.
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But John 13 is huge.
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Does anybody remember what's taking place in John 13, the whole chapter? All right, well, we'll read it.
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It's the upper room discourse.
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It is Jesus' final instructions to His beloved disciples before He is betrayed, before He's taken to the guard of Gethsemane, before He cries out to the Lord, not His will, but the Father's will, that He's betrayed, and then He's led off to be beaten and crucified.
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So let's read John 13, and we're just going to kind of walk through it.
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It says, Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come, that He would depart from out of this world to the Father, and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
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And you see that? He loved His own even to the end.
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That means He was even loving Judas to the end.
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During the supper, the devil, having already been put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, He got up from the supper, He laid aside His garments, and taking a towel, He girded Himself.
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You see, when I read that, reading it this week, preparing not to be too allegorical, but as I come to that, I go, man, this is just a good picture of Jesus laying down His garments of deity, His prerogatives of deity, and to become the humility of man.
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You see what Jesus is fixing to do here? He is fixing to do something that a slave would have done.
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Imagine the King of Glory walking in this room right now and asking you to take your shoes off and wash your feet.
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Maybe washing our feet would be a little bit different because we probably all took baths this morning.
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Understand, those people walked everywhere that they went.
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You understand what was on the road back then.
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They didn't have cars.
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There would be camel increment, there would be donkey increment, there would be dust and dirt.
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Their feet were not real clean.
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And the King of Glory was fixing to wash their feet.
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He poured out water into the basin.
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Verse 5, He poured out water into the basin.
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He began to wash the disciples' feet and wipe them with a towel which was girded.
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So He came to Simon Peter and He said to him, Lord, do you wash My feet? And Jesus answered and said to him, What I do to you, you do not realize now, but you will understand here shortly after.
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Peter said to him, Never shall you wash My feet.
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And Jesus answered to him, If you don't let Me wash you, you have no part with Me.
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And Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, then wash not only My feet, but wash My hands and My head.
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And Jesus said to him, He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean.
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And you are clean, but not all of you are clean.
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For He knew that the one who was betraying Him, and for this reason He said, Not all of you are clean.
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So when He had washed their feet, He had taken up the garments and He climbed back to the table again.
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He said to them, Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me teacher, you call Me Lord, and that which you have said is right, for I am.
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If I then, the Lord and the teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to do this to one another's feet.
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Now, this is not an ordinance given to the church for us to wash each other's feet.
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I know there are certain groups that say, Hey, we should do feet washing and all of that.
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That's not what it is.
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It's an example.
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Jesus even says, Hey, what I have done to you is an example of how you are to treat one another.
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And the example is very clear.
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Hey, your example is to do things that are not always the most clean to yourself, but to help others.
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So He goes on to say, in verse 15, For I have given you an example that you should also do as I have done to you.
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Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is no greater than his master.
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Nor is the one who sent greater than the one who sent him.
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If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
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I do not speak to all of you, for I know the ones I have chosen, but it is that the Scriptures may be fulfilled.
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He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.
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For now I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am he.
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And truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whoever I send receives me.
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And he who receives me receives the one who sent me.
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And when Jesus had said this, he became troubled within his spirit, and he testified and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, the one of you will betray me.
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The disciples began to look into one another, and they lost to know which one he was speaking of.
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And there was one reclining as Jesus' bosom, one of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved.
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Imagine being that guy.
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Man, imagine being that guy.
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The one being singled out.
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The one whom Jesus loved.
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Hey, people say that Jesus didn't have favorites.
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It says it right here.
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He did have a favorite.
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He had one that he loved, whom he cherished.
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Was it because John was younger? Could have been.
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I mean, he was probably in his teens when he was called to be a disciple.
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But not only was John a young man, he was also one of the sons of thunder.
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Y'all remember who those were.
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Those were the ones that when Jesus was on his way to Samaria, and they wouldn't let him down, and they didn't want him to pass through.
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And they said, you know what, Jesus? Why don't you just let us call fire down from heaven and smoke the whole city? That's the one who was leaning on Jesus' bosom.
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So Simon Peter gestured to him, and he said, Tell us who it is of whom he is speaking.
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He, leaning back thus on Jesus' bosom, said to him, Lord, who is it? Jesus then answered, This is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him.
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So when he had dipped the morsel, he took it and he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon the Iscariot.
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And after the morsel, Satan then entered into him.
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And therefore Jesus said to him, Whatever you do, do quickly.
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Do you see that Satan then entered Judas Iscariot? There's only two people in all of Scripture that the Bible says Satan entered.
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One's going to be the son of perdition at this time, and the next one will be the son of perdition at the end of the age.
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It says, Therefore Jesus said, Whatever you do, go do it quickly.
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Now one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose he had said this.
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And for some were supposing that Judas, who had kept the money box, that Jesus was telling him to go buy things that were needed for the feast, or else he should go give something to the poor.
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So after receiving the morsel, he immediately went out, and it was night.
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Therefore, when he had gone out, Jesus said, Okay, we're going to focus on the last 31 through 38.
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Notice that these instructions come immediately after the betrayer has left.
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So these instructions are for a specific people.
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It's for his elect, per se.
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Therefore, when he had gone out, Jesus says, Now is the Son of Man to be glorified, and God is glorified in him.
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And if God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will glorify him immediately.
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Little children, I am with you a little while longer, and you will seek me.
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And as I said to the Jews, Now I will also say to you, Where I am going, you cannot come.
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And a new commandment I have given to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also should love one another.
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By this all men will know that you are my disciples.
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If you have loved one another.
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And Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where is it that you are going? And Jesus said, Where I go, you cannot follow me, but you will follow me later.
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And Peter said to him, Lord, why can I not follow you right now? And he said, I will lay down my life even for you.
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And Jesus said, Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times.
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Hey, I just want to say something right here.
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Peter gets a bad wrath.
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Understand, Peter is willing to die for Christ.
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And if you even go back, I think it's into chapter 11, when Jesus is fixing to go in to remember Lazarus had died.
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And they come to him, Mary and Martha.
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They send a messenger, Hey, you know, Lazarus is about to die.
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Then a messenger comes later.
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I think it's like three days later.
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And he says, Hey, Lazarus is dead.
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And Jesus' response is, Good.
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Imagine somebody, your loved one is dying, and somebody is going, You know what? It's good.
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And Jesus said, Let the Son of Man be glorified.
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Well, as they're heading that way, it says, Hey, if we go there, the Jews are going to kill us.
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And what does Thomas say? The one who gets a bad wrath as well for being doubting Thomas.
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Thomas says, You know what? We're going to go.
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And if they're going to kill the Messiah, we'll die with them.
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That's pretty bold.
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And that is what Peter is saying here.
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Although Peter has done some things that each and every one of us has done in our own life.
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He gets the bad wrath.
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But he actually is willing to die for Christ.
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And he actually does.
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Tradition says, How many of us have been crucified upside down for our Lord? How many of us have been asked to be beheaded for the Lord? How many of us have been asked to be put on a stick and torched for the Lord? So, back up into verse 33.
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He says, Little children, I am with you just a little while longer, and you will seek me.
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And as I said to the Jews, Now I say to you, where I'm going, you cannot go.
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And he says this, A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another.
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Was it a new commandment? And this is a legitimate question for you to answer.
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Was it a new commandment? Go ahead.
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Go ahead.
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Leviticus 19.18 Love your neighbor as yourself.
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Love your neighbor.
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Yeah, so was it a new commandment to be told to love someone? No, it wasn't.
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Even Jesus had to clarify that when he said in the Sermon on the Mount, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
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Now that was an actual turn the culture upside down because the Jews believed that God didn't love the Gentile.
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He believed that his wrath was kindled against him just because they were not on the line of Abraham.
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And Jesus has to tell them, no, no, no, no.
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Your neighbor is everyone around you.
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And then he gives a parable.
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We all know that parable, the Good Samaritan.
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The Good Samaritan was the one to be despised.
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And what did the...
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People were supposed to show compassion to that person, and they didn't.
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And nobody did, but the one who was despised.
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And that was part of showing that you should love your neighbor.
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But when he says, a new commandment I give you that you love one another, it wasn't what makes it new? And I think that's what we need to look at.
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Because Jesus didn't say, Hey, I give you kind of an old commandment, I'm just going to change it a little bit.
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No, no, no.
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It's new.
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Well, what makes it new? And I'll tell you what makes it new because it's qualified.
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If it says, a new commandment I give to you, boop, period.
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And he says, love one another, that wouldn't be new.
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But there's a comma there, and it says that you love one another, how? As I have loved you.
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As I have loved you.
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Had anybody in all of human history up to this point loved anybody or any of those disciples the way Jesus had? No, we actually have a blueprint of how we're to love one another than it was in love incarnate Jesus Christ.
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How did he love them? How did he? Well, sure, that's most John 15, 13.
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It says, no greater love than this than a man lay down his life for his friends.
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What's that? Sacrificial love.
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But what were some other than that up to this point, he has not laid down his life and in their mind, although Jesus how many times had already told them, hey, I'm going to lay down my life.
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I'm going to lay down my life.
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I'm going to lay down my life.
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And it just, right over their head.
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I mean, we would have been the same way.
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Here it is.
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This great teacher has raised people from the dead.
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I mean, just probably two weeks, maybe three weeks prior to this, he just had a man who stinketh in the grave walk out of a tomb.
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Well, you think they were really worried about someone killing Jesus? I mean, this man has called dead people back to life again.
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You know, remember the one time the person was crying and we're carrying the coffin out and Jesus said, get up and walk.
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I mean, the guy goes, the kid gets up and walks, gets out of the coffin.
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Alright, so when it says he wants to, he wants to show how he demonstrated love.
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How did he do it other than laying down his life? What's that? Selflessly.
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Yeah, selflessly.
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So let's list some of those things that Jesus did apart from dying.
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Because we know that is the greatest thing.
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But what did he do? What were some things that he did for three and a half years? He served.
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He served? Sure.
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He served them.
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And that could come under I think actually I wrote two Bs there.
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How did he what were some ways he served them? This is the first one I think of.
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But he fed them.
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He fed them.
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Hey, they were on daily work, daily pay then, weren't they? And when Jesus came up and he called some of them, what were they doing? They were working.
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Some of them were out there fishing and Jesus says, hey, follow me.
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What did that mean they had to do? They had to just drop their livelihood and walk off.
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Well, what about Matthew? What kind of cash was that joker making? And he said, follow me.
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And then we have another one in there.
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I don't know if y'all ever remember the one in there.
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One was a zealot.
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Y'all know what he was.
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Anybody know what the zealots were? They were terrorists that fought against the Romans.
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That's what they were.
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They actually raised up arms to fight against the Romans.
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Imagine Matthew and Simon the zealot together.
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I mean, that'd be like getting the left and the right in a room together.
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So, he had a demonstration of love by feeding them.
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What else did he do for those three and a half years? He healed some of them.
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He did.
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Yep.
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Matter of fact, the first one I think of is Peter's mother.
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He healed family members.
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What else did he do? He opened the word of God to them.
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That is right.
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He opened the word.
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And by opening the word, every one of these was demonstrated.
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Why? Because he was the word incarnate.
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He was love incarnate.
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And Jesus was just carrying out the very thing that the word said that we were supposed to do that we could not do.
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So, Jesus loving one another, most importantly, he opened the word and taught them the word of God, which made him go, you know what, I'm going to demonstrate what the word of God says.
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And it's to feed one another.
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It is to heal one another.
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It is to teach one another.
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And I do all of these things because I first and foremost I love you.
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I love you.
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Now, Jesus put the he puts an explanation point on the word love.
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And I don't want to say loved because he continues to love today.
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Now, what are some other ways where it says, he said, even as I love you, that you also love one another.
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Now, how can we demonstrate? Give me some ways we can demonstrate these to one another.
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Certainly by opening the word.
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Certainly by feeding those who are in need.
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I don't think any of us can do this.
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Unless somebody here has got a special gift I don't know about.
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You can minister to the sick.
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You can.
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And Jesus also prayed.
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I'm going to put here in dying.
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Because nobody in here can raise a baby from the dead, but you know what, we can go and help those who are dying and those who have had people that have died.
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That is a demonstration of love.
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What else? Somebody said something a second ago.
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Prayer.
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Jesus demonstrated that too.
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You remember when although he tells him at the end of this passage that Peter is going to go and he's going to die three times.
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And it talks about the, he said the shepherd's going to be striking, the sheep are going to scatter.
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But he says, but I have prayed for you.
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If you read that, and I'm very detailed in the syntax of how words relate in that.
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If you go back and you look when it says you, that's in the plural form.
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We often think that he's only talking to Peter.
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He says hey, Satan desires to sift you, but I have prayed for you.
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Now, if you were going to put it in the vernacular of how the plurality of the nouns work, he would say, Peter Satan has asked to sift you, but he's looking at all of his disciples, and he says but I have prayed for you all.
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Y'all.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, in the Galilee.
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You guys.
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These guys.
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He said, I prayed for you all.
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And that your faith may not fail.
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We think that he's actually just talking to Peter.
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He's not.
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He's talking to all of them.
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Hey, Satan desired to sift every one of them.
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They all scattered, even the one that ran away half naked.
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And he'd come back.
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So yeah, prayer.
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Hey, and not only did he pray for them, he says I'm praying for you because Satan has desired to sift you, but even in his high priestly prayer, these I have loved even from the beginning.
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And he intercedes for them.
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And then he intercedes, not only he's praying for his disciples, but in love, he's praying for those who would believe because of them.
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So certainly prayer is a demonstration of loving one another.
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What else? Serve all kinds of people.
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Poor.
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Rich.
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Now, we're called to serve and be hands and feet to all.
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But specifically, we're to be the hands and feet and ministry first and foremost to the believer.
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And you say, well, I'm not sure if I believe that.
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I think it's in Galatians 6.10.
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If somebody wants to look that up and see if I'm right or wrong, it's fine.
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I think it's in Galatians chapter 6.
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That's it.
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That's right.
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Especially the household of faith.
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I'm telling you right now if I'm going down the highway and I see somebody broke down on the side of the road, by and large, I'm not going to stop.
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I just don't even think about it.
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But if I come and I see Andy or I see you, I'm pulling over.
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I go, hey man, you got it.
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I'm there to help.
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I'm there to help.
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It's not that I don't care or have any concern for those other people.
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I do.
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But I have a relationship and a love for you that's far greater than these people I don't know.
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It doesn't mean I don't care.
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But I have more of a responsibility to minister first and foremost to the people of God than the lost and dying.
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Well, first.
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And I know some people may disagree with that, but you're going to have to point to me a place in scripture where it says that my responsibility first and foremost isn't to God's people.
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It is.
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It's to God's people.
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Why? Because you're my family.
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The world's not my family.
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You're my family.
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If I was to go out, go to my neighbor next door and take care of his family before mine, what would y'all think of me? I would hope some men in this church would take me out back here and tie me up and thump on me.
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Because my first and foremost, my responsibility is to my family.
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It's to my family.
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So, what else? Serve all kinds of people.
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Sure.
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We are to serve all kinds of people.
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You might think you just hit it, but it really is.
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He was a disciple that really should...
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And I know you just addressed it, but that's what I was thinking.
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In that sense, how do we value those that God had given him and saw them as one body in that sense? They were special.
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They were special.
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And we've said it time and time again.
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God's love is not just one swooping brush that's just equal to everyone and all people.
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It's not.
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And I know evangelicalism wants to say that God has to love everybody the same way.
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No, he does not.
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He's God and he's God in heaven.
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He does what he wants, when he wants, how he wants and he didn't consult you or me over it.
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He loves his people.
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And he loves them with a special kind of love.
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And we've already said it, that he said it specifically in no greater love.
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So if you have a greater love, what's the deduction in that statement? There's a lesser love.
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No greater love than this, than a man lay down his life for his friends and he says, and you are my friends.
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So the greater love is this, that we'd be willing to lay down our life for our friends.
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Now that doesn't always mean that as we love one another, that I have to go out and actually have my life extinguished.
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But am I willing at times for the benefit of my brother or sister in Christ, am I willing to put away my prerogatives of my own needs for that? We should.
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There comes a time when brothers and sisters in Christ need to be ministered to far more than I need to take care of my business.
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But, we don't see it that way.
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Because we're so, we're very self-centered.
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And that's just how we're wired in our fallenness.
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But if we look how Jesus loved in this passage, we're at one time where Jesus was self-seeking.
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Hey, and if anybody had the right to say, hey man, I'm king of glory.
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It was Him.
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And He never did that.
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Even at times when His disciples He would say to them, now there was at times where He said, O ye of little faith, that I do believe was a stern rebuke.
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I do that.
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But there was times where He said like in Philip, Philip, how long have I been with you? In the upper room discourse.
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How long have I been with you? Do you not know if you've seen me, you've seen the Father? That wasn't, I don't think, a rebuke.
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That whole context was a loving trying to continue to teach them right to the end.
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But there was times where, hey, you know what? How many times have I told you? O ye of little faith.
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So, as we got five minutes, ten minutes.
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We are to love one another as Christ loved us.
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And I'm gonna I'll move this to Mark 9 50.
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I would really like to exegete that text because it comes in Mark's, maybe I'll try to tie that into something else.
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But if we do not love one another as Christ loved us, we cannot be at peace with one another.
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We can't.
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Peace with one another first comes first and foremost with peace with God.
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And it doesn't mean that we at times don't have conflict with one another.
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We do have conflict with one another.
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Even the elders, believe it or not, we have conflict with one another.
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Not as in we're trying to fight with one another, but sometimes, at times, we have different perspectives.
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But what do we do in loving prayer? We work those things out because we love one another and we have to come to some type of conclusion.
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So as we are serving with one another, as we're demonstrating the love for one another, how are we to live at peace? So we gotta, let's move this here and I will come back and do Mark 9 50 at some point because there's a passage right above that that says salted with fire that I think needs to be addressed.
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So you have love and I think it's probably about and Andy may have seen it, it's probably 15 or 20 times this is used.
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Love one another.
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I can't remember exactly, but and then this one, peace.
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How are we, we got five minutes to figure out how do we live in peace with one another.
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Give us a demonstration to live in that peace.
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Ma'am? Hey! No gossip.
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That kills people.
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Just so you can pray more intellectually.
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Let me share this.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I saw old Tommy, he was drunk walking down the road.
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Lord, please help him stop drinking.
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Yeah.
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That's one of them teaching prayers.
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What else? That's huge though, Miss Candy.
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Yeah.
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I like the way she said it keep you, man.
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Zip it.
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Some things are just better left unsaid.
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What else? Esteem others more that's important than your That's a command, actually.
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That's in the imperative.
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And that's in the scripture.
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Esteem yourself less important than others.
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Look, we that even comes with issues of conscience.
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And y'all may not deal with that as much, but as elders we deal with issues of conscience a lot.
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There are things that some people feel are absolute a moral infraction and it winds up being an issue of conscience, but you know what we do? We don't want that person to offend their own conscience, so what do we do? We concede.
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Okay.
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Look, if you come to my house and you think that eating pork and shellfish and all that stuff's wrong, I promise you, you won't have to worry about that when you get to my house, but as soon as you leave we're pulling it all out.
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I'm not going to do something that would offend someone.
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That's living at peace with one another.
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And Paul even says that in Romans where he says, who are you to judge another man's servant? Whatever they're doing in their own conscience, if their conscience is convincing them that what they're doing is wrong, it's not for me to do something that would accuse their conscience.
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That's living at peace.
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That's not causing conflict.
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But not only is esteeming one another more important than yourself, but how do we maintain that peace? Are we to be peacemakers or peacekeepers? Peacekeepers carry guns.
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Although we need them.
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Although we do need those, but we're to make peace.
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And when it means make peace, what does that mean? That means that's going to take some time.
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It's going to take, look at, let's talk about these things.
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Let's work through the difficulties of whatever it is we're going through.
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Would you like, you want to say something, Andy? Yes, sir.
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No, I was just thinking how, and I think we're all struggling with that, that someone's not like us.
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We really need to take a step back and look at ourselves and not trying to make everybody think, act, because then you don't have a Northern accent.
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Or country twang.
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Yeah, it is getting to know one another so that we can live at peace and not be in conflict.
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But if you're not at peace with the Lord, you will not be at peace with God's people.
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You will not be at peace with God's people.
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I will get back to this because I do want to deal with 49 and 50 at some point.
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Any questions? I think as we go through these, we're going to find there's a lot of overlap, but the reason why I think we started with love was because that's the counter.
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And as we see as we go through them, again, we'll probably look at similar passages on a lot of them, but this is a big list of to-dos for us.
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Oh yeah, there's practical implication right here.
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Yeah, if we're serious about it, this is really going to take some humbling on our heart, and then it's going to take some effort on our part too.
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Love can be a noun.
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Love can be a verb, but love has to be a disposition of us towards one another.
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You know what I mean by disposition? God's disposition to all of his humanity is love.
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All of his creatures, every one of them, is disposition of love.
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Now we can come to different conclusions of how that love continues and people cease to experience all that, but it's God's love, it's his disposition to all of his creation.
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Is it love? And I would say without hesitation, yes.
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Because even in Romans chapter 2, when he's speaking to the unregenerate, he says, it's the loving kindness of God that leads you to repentance.
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What are you doing, oh man? Do you not know that you're storing up wrath for the day of wrath and the righteous judgment of God will be revealed? Well, if you're storing up wrath for the day of wrath, well, you have to be the unregenerate, correct? And if he's extending his loving kindness to them for the purpose of them repenting, then it means God's disposition towards the wicked is still love.
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Now you and me have a hard time in our mind, I do, maybe y'all smarter than me, that's fine, I hope you are, go, how can this God who can have so much love and compassion towards his creatures still have all this violent and fury and hostility towards the wickedness of that person? Hey, I can't explain all of that.
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All I can do is point back to, I think it's in Psalm 50, and our Psalm expert back there could correct me if my address part's wrong, but I think it's Psalm 50-21, where it says that who do you think that I'm altogether like you? God ain't like you and me.
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If it was up to me, I'd slay every one of them, but God's not like me.
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God's like God, and he has a disposition and love towards his people, and if we did it our way, we would cut it short today for all the wicked, and those who'd get saved tomorrow wouldn't, under the plan of God.
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Alright? Any more comments? No? I'll pray so we can get out of here.
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Father God, thank you for the love that you demonstrated through your Son, that he came and he laid down his life for his friends.
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And Father, thank you that we are called your friends, those who have trusted in you.
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Father, we thank you that we have the perfect example of what it looks like to love one another, and Father, we will fail miserably in comparison to what your Son demonstrated, but Father, I pray that you would, through the power of the Spirit, Father, give us the ability to love one another in such a way that we display Christ's likeness to one another into the lost and dying world.
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Father, you say they will know that you're my disciples by your love for one another, not for a love for anyone else, but a love for one another.
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Father, fill us with your Spirit.
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Open our ears and our hearts to hear the Word that will be preached today.
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In Christ's name, Amen.
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But if a family can go, like you and Debra can go, we'll be all there for that slot.
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But here it is, if y'all want to sign up, there's the dates we need.
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You want me to leave these up here? Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.