The Eleventh Commandment
Richard Bradley
John 13:31-35
There are suggestions and there are commandments. It's important to remember that we should never confuse the two. Occasionally we might be ordered to do something by someone in authority. That's a commandment. However, there will also be times when someone might recommend we do something different to obtain a better result. That's a suggestion. For instance, when was the last time a policeman pulled you over and suggested you start driving the speed limit? Not often, right? That occasion usually results in an order to obey the law. With commandments we have no other choice but to obey the voice of authority.
Here we find a commandment and not a suggestion. We know about the ten commandments that God wrote with His own finger on tablets of stone and gave to Moses. In this passage we find Jesus adding to the list; an eleventh commandment if you please. He could do that because after all He is God!
John 13:31-35
31 So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, ''Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately.
33 Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you cannot come,' so now I say to you.
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.''
We all believe we should keep the first ten commandments. But we probably have more trouble keeping this last one than all the other ten combined.
THE ESSENCE OF THIS NEW COMMANDMENT
34 A new commandment I give to you,
that you love one another;
as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
There's no debating what Jesus ordered us to do here. He said that we must love one another. No doubt, as ...
Richard Bradley
John 13:31-35
There are suggestions and there are commandments. It's important to remember that we should never confuse the two. Occasionally we might be ordered to do something by someone in authority. That's a commandment. However, there will also be times when someone might recommend we do something different to obtain a better result. That's a suggestion. For instance, when was the last time a policeman pulled you over and suggested you start driving the speed limit? Not often, right? That occasion usually results in an order to obey the law. With commandments we have no other choice but to obey the voice of authority.
Here we find a commandment and not a suggestion. We know about the ten commandments that God wrote with His own finger on tablets of stone and gave to Moses. In this passage we find Jesus adding to the list; an eleventh commandment if you please. He could do that because after all He is God!
John 13:31-35
31 So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, ''Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately.
33 Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you cannot come,' so now I say to you.
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.''
We all believe we should keep the first ten commandments. But we probably have more trouble keeping this last one than all the other ten combined.
THE ESSENCE OF THIS NEW COMMANDMENT
34 A new commandment I give to you,
that you love one another;
as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
There's no debating what Jesus ordered us to do here. He said that we must love one another. No doubt, as ...
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