In India there is a cemetery where the bodies of American soldiers are buried. Over the entrance to this cemetery these words are written: 'Tell Them We Gave Our Todays for Their Tomorrows’” -Edward Chinn
“I have been at the bedside of many people in their final moments, when they stand on the edge of eternity. And I have never heard anyone say, 'Bring me my diplomas! I want to look at them one more time. Show me my awards, my medals, and that gold watch I was given.'
When life on earth is ending, people don't surround themselves with objects. What we want around us is people, – people we love and have relationships with. In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about."
Bearing that in mind, think about what Jesus said to His followers in vs. 9, "As the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you. . ." Can you imagine how close God the Father is to God the Son? -- No relationship could possibly be closer.
John 10:30, Jesus said: "I and My Father are one.''
John 14:6-9, Jesus said: I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.'' 8. Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.'' 9. Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. . ."
The Father and Son are one. No love could be stronger. No relationship could be closer. But wonder of wonders, God wants to be that close to us! God Himself wants to be our Father and Best Friend! Jesus said, "As the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you. . ."
The greatest love can bind us together with God!
How? -- Through faith in Jesus Christ!” (RickWarren).
There is a pattern or should I say a legacy that Jesus had done for all who will receive Him. Edward Chinn had quoted unknowingly that our Savior, Our Master had demonstrated it first in His life, the Oneness of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and all believers of Jesus, before the soldiers who died in India had shown... before Edward Chinn had quoted. There is a sign. LET ALL MEN KNOW this....
When the love of God is present in the life of a believer, it will be manifested in the five areas of their lives....
1. Love For The Savior
John 14:15 “If you love Me keep My commandments!” but, Rev. 2:4- you have left your first love!....
Would this be left out? Surely, many did... but today.... let us go back to the Source of our love, and this love is the beginning of all our loves. This is where good works and fruits begin. This is where Psalm 37:4 comes in. Doing good and doing everything stems from this genuine love for Jesus through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in us. Truly Jesus meant what He said in Matthew 7:16 “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (KJV)
Where is our love? It all should begin to the Source of all true, genuine love... GOD. This love from God would surely manifests in all we do. This again may I repeat the springboard of our everything as a Christian. For we can not continue our topic for today without settling first on where our love started. It should begin on the cross. Nothing more, nothing less.
2. Love For The Scriptures
“You search the Scriptures, for you believe they give you eternal life. And the Scriptures point to Me!” (John 5:39 TLB)
This Bible is where we got a language for our faith; we got words for our feelings; we got pictures for our dreams. And my image of Jesus became more multifaceted! When I thought I understood, there was always more and more and more. Everyday? There is a Rhema Word that is different from what I read before.... Truly, they are new every morning! I had begun to feed on the mysteries of God. And it was intellectually a most stimulating awakening. That way of reading served me well, for a while. This was the time when I was naïve and arrogant enough to identify with the people I read about, or whose writings I read. I felt like Peter and I felt like Paul—especially when they had negative feelings. I felt like all the disciples. I felt like the Prodigal Son—I had not yet learned that the story in Luke 15 was actually also about the older son, who is the one who is like church people, those who stayed on the farm (somebody has to), but couldn't take it unto himself to be grateful when his brother came home. Whooooaaaa, this thirst that I wanted to become more like Jesus, wondering what He would say or do had He been where I was.
When we read the Scriptures, we read about ourselves and God. And when we identify ourselves and God in that Book? A wonderful adventure of life begins! It's all about life. Sin is sickness, not primarily of guilt. It's not about obedience and Lordship. It's life: He came that we should have life, and have it abundantly. In Him was life. Out of his innermost parts, streams of living water will flow (John 7). And everything is to be born anew, born out of water and blood (John 3).
3. Love For The Sanctuary
Heb. 10:25- “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together , as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another and so much more as you see the day approaching”
David’s Psalm of 122:1- I WAS GLAD WHEN THEY SAID TO ME, LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD!
Another one is Psalm84:10 (NIV) “Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.”
Just asking for anybody’s observation if you’ve been in your local Church. “Isn’t it strange how a twenty dollar bill in the U.S. or 100 peso bill here in our country seems like such a large amount when you donate it to church, but such a small amount when you go shopping?
Isn’t it strange how two hours seem so long when you’re at church, and so short when you’re at a ball game?” Have we lost the passion of David or haven’t really found out why David is like that in Psalm 84:10!
4. Love For The Saints
1 John 4:20-21; 1 John 5:1-3; John 13:35 - 1 John 4:12! When we, the saints walk in love, then God will be seen in us!
From: blueletterbible.org
“NOW BEFORE THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER, WHEN JESUS KNEW THAT HIS HOUR WAS COME."
A. John tells us of four things that Jesus knew in this paragraph.
1. He knew that His hour had come.
2. He knew that the Father had given all things in His hands. Vs.3
3. He knew that He had come from God and was going to God. Vs.3
4. He knew who it was who should betray Him. Vs. 11.
B. He knew that His hour had come.
1. His first reference to His hour was to His mother when at the beginning of His public ministry He said to her, "My hour has not yet come."
2. What hour is He referring to?
a. The hour He was to glorify the Father by His death and resurrection.
b. The hour that He was to depart out of this world unto the Father.
C. Jesus had such a keen sense of timing, God's timing.
1. This is an area where we often fail miserably.
a. We are so prone to get ahead of God. We are so impatient and thus ready to rush into things or try to move things along ahead of schedule.
b. We often lag behind God, we have other things that we desire to do first, and are prone to put off the things of God until a more convenient time.
c. We all need to pray that God will make us more sensitive to His timing.
1Peter4:17For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? This is the part I like most where our Lord had shown His love toward us. The steps were started in this place.
“... WHEN JESUS KNEW THAT HIS HOUR WAS COME” with “HAVING LOVED HIS OWN, HE LOVED THEM UNTO THE END.” The interesting thing here to me is that John associates the fact that Jesus knew all things, with the fact that Jesus loved His own.
5. Love For The Sinners -
Jesus had a heart for sinners - Actually, Jesus was accused of being a friend of sinners. That was the word on the street in first-century Palestine. The precise phrase — “friend of sinners” — is mentioned twice in the Gospels, in Matthew 11:19 and Luke 7:34. The naysayers of the day, the religious aristocracy, criticized Jesus as a “glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.” They called Him this because it was true. He was a friend of sinners. Jesus Himself said that He didn’t come for the spiritually healthy, but for the sick. “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance” (Luke 5:31–32).
This is all very important for us because, as some have noted recently, we Christians pattern our lives after Jesus’s example. He has, after all, sent us into the world in the same Spirit of his own mission (John 20:21–22). If Jesus was a friend of sinners, we should be too, it seems — somehow, someway.
God's love is more than just being loved! It is opening our lives so that the Lord can love through us. So that He can reach a world for Himself. This is Christianity at its finest. The love to reach all mankind. The Love that sacrificed Himself for us all. No one’s exempted. The Son of God came in the Flesh as the Son of Man, that we sons of men could become sons of God through Him! The Apostle Paul brilliantly wrote it in 2 Corinthians 5:21. When we received Him in our life the Holy Spirit came unto us and “hope will never again disappoint us because the LOVE OF GOD WAS POURED OUT IN OUR HEARTS...” From then on, it would never be difficult to love sinners, understand them, undauntedly forgive just as we have been forgiven. The life of a man who received Jesus would be transformed like Paul and everyone who believed in Him (1 Corinthians 11:1)
Are we ready now to accept the words of Jesus just like on that last night with His Apostles.? This is our trademark. That we learn to love one another. He started it, we follow Him. This is “true”Christianity. Different from all other religions. Very distinct and Set Apart millions and millions of miles from all others. “By their fruits, you shall know them”
And so as I conclude; I could not find any better grammar or any other except to quote our Lord verbatim in that humbling night with His disciples; “...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. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. loved them unto the end. A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that YOU ALSO LOVE ONE ANOTHER also love one another. BY THIS ALL MEN KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES IF YOU HAVE LOVE ONE FOR ANOTHER!”
I am sure you knew this love ever since.
Now, let all men know!
Come on now, let our light shine to them...
God blessed us all alone in Christ Jesus!
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