AS I HAVE LOVED YOU...(4 OF 6)
by Will McGee
Scripture: John 13, John 15:12-17
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As I Have Loved You...(4 of 6)
Series: Bear Fruit
Will McGee
John 13, 15:12-17
INTRODUCTION: John 15:12-17 - [12] ''This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. [13] Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. [14] You are my friends if you do what I command you. [15] No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. [16] You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. [17] These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
This morning, we are continuing our study on John 15.
Jesus says if we abide in him, we will ''bear fruit.'' One of the ways this is evident, Jesus says, is that when we abide in Christ... We will develop a love for other Christians... And the fruit of that will be Christian community.
That's something that most of us here want. We want community. Friendship. Family. But how do we experience it... The way God wants for us?
Jesus said. ''As I have loved you... That's the key to how you love one another.''
Christian community is formed like this... Experience the love of Christ. Then, show that love to one another. It's why our mission statement is ordered the way that it is... Know Christ. Grow Together. As he has loved us, so we love one another.
I want us to look at John 13 this morning... Still part of the same dinner conversation as the passage I just read... Jesus is actually retelling his disciples... Something he said just a few moments earlier.
Jesus tells his disciples in John 13:34...''A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my ...
Series: Bear Fruit
Will McGee
John 13, 15:12-17
INTRODUCTION: John 15:12-17 - [12] ''This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. [13] Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. [14] You are my friends if you do what I command you. [15] No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. [16] You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. [17] These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
This morning, we are continuing our study on John 15.
Jesus says if we abide in him, we will ''bear fruit.'' One of the ways this is evident, Jesus says, is that when we abide in Christ... We will develop a love for other Christians... And the fruit of that will be Christian community.
That's something that most of us here want. We want community. Friendship. Family. But how do we experience it... The way God wants for us?
Jesus said. ''As I have loved you... That's the key to how you love one another.''
Christian community is formed like this... Experience the love of Christ. Then, show that love to one another. It's why our mission statement is ordered the way that it is... Know Christ. Grow Together. As he has loved us, so we love one another.
I want us to look at John 13 this morning... Still part of the same dinner conversation as the passage I just read... Jesus is actually retelling his disciples... Something he said just a few moments earlier.
Jesus tells his disciples in John 13:34...''A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my ...
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