Once Again, It is Love
Sunday Worship Service: JULY 20, 2025
Once Again, It is Love
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
Sermon Notes
34. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another 35. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another
What is love?
Do you love me?
How much do you love me?
I love you just a little less than I love God
What does the Bible say about LOVE?
1. To LOVE
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another (John 13:34)
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another (John 13:34)
Why is Christ giving out a new commandment?
After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me” (John 13:21)
Christ knew Judas Iscariot will betray him
Christ knew such betrayal would destroy the community
So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?” (John 13:25)
We ALWAYS tend to find someone to BLAME
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12)
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12)
And BLAME always brings the DESTRUCTION among community
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another (John 13:34)
To LOVE rather than to blame
Regeneration / Healing / Redemption / Forgiveness / and MORE
Love is the KEY to make ONE COMMUNITY
2. Just as I have done
Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another (John 13:34)
Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another (John 13:34)
It is not just to love. It is to LOVE like Christ did
It is not about HOW I WANT TO LOVE
It is about HOW Christ has loved us
The very first motioning of Christ
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel (Genesis 3:15)
At the moment of FAILURE(S)
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8)
To LOVE: not in my way(s) but in God’s
3. To be his disciples
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another (John 13:35)
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another (John 13:35)
How world and its people perceive Christianity (Christians)
Seems like we (Christians) are not welcomed in the world
You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and tramples under people’s feet (Matthew 5:13)
We deserve this as we have LOST our SALTINESS
There is A SOLUTION to all these
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another (John 13:35)
Let us have LOVE
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another (John 13:35)
Whom should we love?
EVERYONE including non-believers
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13)
Let us LOVE EVERYONE like CHRIST DID
Let us love everyone like Christ did through the HELP of Holy Spirit