"The True Love of Jesus" || John 13:31-38 || Kevin Meisch

Point #1 – Love Displayed (V31-32)

"The glory of God is the invisible qualities, character, or attributes of God displayed in a visible (or knowable) way."

The cross is the window to the very heart and character of the living and loving God." – N.T. Wright

"God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. – 1 John 4:9-10

"To that old, rugged cross I will ever be true, its shame and reproach gladly bear; Then he will call me someday, to my home far away, where his glory forever I’ll share!" ‘The Old Rugged Cross’ 

Point #2 – Love Commanded (V33-34)

"Slave and free, male and female, Jew and Greek, educated and uneducated…sat down at one table, and felt themselves all one in Christ Jesus. They were ready to break all other bonds, and to yield to the uniting forces that streamed out from His Cross. There never had been anything like it. No wonder that the world began to babble about sorcery, and conspiracies, and complicity in unnamable vices. It was only that the disciples were obeying the new commandment, and a new thing had come into the world—a community held together by love and not by geographical accidents or linguistic affinities, or the iron fetters of the conqueror…the new commandment made a new thing, and the world wondered." – Alexander Maclaren – Expositions of Holy Scripture

• Carry one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2)
• Serve one another (Galatians 5:13)
• Honor one another (Romans 12:10)
• Pray for one another (James 5:16)
• Be hospitable to one another (1 Peter 4:9)
• Forgive one another (Ephesians 4:30-32)

"But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you. – John 14:26

Point #3 – Love Witnessed (V35)