Collierville First Baptist Church

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So I want you to take your Bible today, and I want you to turn to John chapter 13, John chapter 13, and I want to speak to you on this subject, amazing love. This will complete our series Discovering Jesus. We started in chapter one, verse one and today we will end with chapter 13, verse 38. Lee Coker, the famed businessman, once asked legendary football coach, excuse me.

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I need to get one of those things that those hikers wear. You know.

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I've got I've got one.

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That I just weighed on their back, and they just suck it when they need it. So maybe I need that. So Lee Iacocca asked Vince Lombardi, the great football coach who coached the green Bay Packers, this question.

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What does it take to make a winning team? Lombardi said this. There are a lot of coaches with good ball clubs who know the fundamentals and have plenty of discipline, but still don't win the game. If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. You've got to love each other. Now this is a football coach saying this.

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Each player has to be thinking about the next guy and saying to himself, if I don't block that man, Paul Hornung is going to get his legs broken. I have to do my job well in order that he can do his well. And then somebody said, there's the difference between mediocrity and greatness is the feeling these guys have for each other.

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Now, ladies and gentlemen, if that's true for a football team, that is doubly true for the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That was a message that Jesus was driving home to his disciples in the upper room. Remember, Jesus is within hours, not days, not weeks, not months, but within hours of going to the cross of Calvary and offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins.

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If we were to put ourselves into the sandals of those disciples who were hearing Jesus there in the upper room that night, Jesus said, call them to deny themselves, take up their cross daily, and to follow him. Those guys have been following him for three years. They witness miracles and heard teaching that was unprecedented. They've been ridiculed and mocked by the religious establishment for following this maverick messiah.

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Everything they've known and believed was about to be tested, because Jesus said that he's going to leave them and they couldn't follow him where he's going at that time. Dreams and visions, their roles in the Kingdom of God, the kingdom of Messiah, evaporated before their very eyes. They were stunned and shocked, to say the least. Beginning in John 13 verse 31 and extending through the end of chapter 17, we're allowed to eavesdrop on the instructions.

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The final instructions that Jesus was giving to his disciples. It is clear that true disciples are to love the Lord. Loving him is most clearly demonstrated by obedience, not lip service. In John 1423 and 24, Jesus had said to his disciples, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.

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He who does not love me does not keep my words. And the word which you hear is not mine. But the father's who sent me in first John chapter two, verses 3 to 6. And John the Apostle wrote, he said this by this we know that we've come to know him if we keep his commandments. How do you know you're a believer?

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Do you know you're a believer because you joined a church? Because you were baptized? Because your name is on the membership roll of a church? Is that how you know you're a believer? Listen to the Bible says you know you're a believer because in your heart of hearts you want to obey Jesus. You want to obey the Word of God.

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The one who says in first John chapter two, verse four, the one who says, I've come to know him and does not keep his commandments is a liar. And the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word in him, the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in him, the one who says he abides in him, and also to walk in the same manner as he walked.

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So in these tender final moments with the Savior, his his disciples heard him issue a command, a command to love each other, a command to serve each other. What would they do with it? Hey, if you had to, if you had to gauge your obedience to Jesus and His commands and His word, where would you rate yourself? Now let me just be quick to say, nobody within the sound of my voice could rate themselves a ten.

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You're not a ten. You may be a seven. Eight you may be a six. You might be a five. I promise you this. It is God's will that every time we hear a command from our Lord in His Word, we are to obey it. We're to obey it. And you're going to hear one today. Now, last week we saw, excuse me.

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Two weeks ago, we saw Jesus get down on his knees and wash the feet of his disciples. And Jesus told them that he wanted them to serve each other the way he had served them. Now, in our mind, we would expect Jesus to say, listen, I want I've served you. I want you to serve me. That's not what he's saying.

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He said, I have served you. I want you to serve one another. And today we're coming to another one of those one another moments so prevalent in the gospel. Now, here's the truth I want you to lock and load in your heart and your soul in your mind. Are you ready? Love each other like Jesus loves you. You look around just a moment.

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You're in the body of Christ. You're in the church, and all around you are brothers and sisters in Christ, and you are to love each other the way Jesus loved you now can. Let's just be honest. Some folks who are in the church are hard to love, but that does not give us a right not to obey this commandment.

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We are to love even the hard to love as Jesus loved us. That's the truth that we're going to delve into today. Now, this kind of love. It's not the ordinary run of the mill love that we see so prevalent in our world today. Now we're talking about a special kind of love. We're talking about God's kind of love.

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Now, this love, I'm going to point out four things about this love. And I want you to remember these, and I want you to apply them as we walk through this, this love, this special kind of love. The number one, a sacrificial love. We're to love each other sacrificially. In John 13 verse 31 and 32, the Bible says, therefore when he had gone out, that's Judas.

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Remember Judas had been in the upper room with the disciples and with the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus had washed the feet of his betrayer. And Judas was filled with the darkness of the devil. And he walked out of the upper room, I could imagine, can't you, that Jesus must have breathed a sigh of relief when Judas Judas walked out.

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Therefore, when he had gone out, Jesus said, now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify Him in himself and will glorify him immediately. Now look, I've I've taught you this over the years. When you see a word repeated numerous times in a passage of Scripture, it's like the Holy Spirit is shining a spotlight on that word.

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And he wants us to understand what God is saying to us through that word. Now, the word we're looking at here is the word glory. And in one form or the other, it's used five times in two verses. Now, wouldn't you think that it would do us well to delve into that word and understand what the Holy Spirit might be saying to us through that word?

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This word, this word glory, simply means to recognize God for who he is and to honor him accordingly. That's what it means to glorify God. So Jesus said, now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. How can Jesus and the father be glorified through the scourging and through the cross that Jesus would have to bear?

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Because that's what we're we're up against, right now. Within hours, Jesus would be beaten to within an inch of his life. Within hours, he would be mocked mercilessly. Within hours, he would stand before, at a trial before the Jewish high priest and at a trial before Pilate, the Roman procurator. And he would be condemned to die.

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And they would take spikes, and they would drive these spikes through his wrist and through his feet, and he would be nailed to a cross. How in the world can God the Father and God the Son be glorified through the cross?

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I want you to get this this thought firmly fixed in your mind. The sacrifice of the Son of God on the cross is the most significant event that has ever occurred in the history of the human race.

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Let me say that again. The sacrifice of the Son of God on the cross of Calvary is the most significant event that has ever occurred in human history. It is the culmination of God's plan that was formed before before the world was even created. God's plan to redeem lost sinners worldwide.

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No wonder Paul said in the book of Galatians that he glories in the cross. He glories in the cross. Now Jesus used the present tense here. He said, now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. Now when he does this, he's referring to his own character and attributes as well as those of God the Father.

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Our Savior's death on the cross demonstrated both the father and the son's attributes demonstrated the grace of God. For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves it is a gift, a gift of of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. And I tell you, Jesus death on the cross demonstrated the justice of God, that God is both just and the justifier of those who believe in Jesus, and it demonstrates the love of God.

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Paul wrote in Romans chapter five, verse eight, But God demonstrated his love toward us in that while while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us and demonstrates the faithfulness of God. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Eternal life the son glorify the father, and the father glorified the son.

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But now notice Jesus also said in verse 32, If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify Him in himself and will glorify him immediately. That's that's future tense. You notice in verse 31 it's present tense. In verse 32, it's future tense. Now when Jesus used the future tense, he was pointing to the future glory that he would receive as a result of his resurrection from the dead and his his ascension back to heaven and his exaltation in heaven.

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Here's the fact, folks, we are to love each other just as Christ loved us. How did he love us? Well, he loved us sacrificially. You know what that means? It means we are to love each other sacrificially. Our the way we operate in the the local New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not us. First. That's the way the world is.

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It's others first and me last. We're to love others sacrificially. Hey, I've seen it. I've been in ministry for 40 years and I've seen it over and over again. I've seen Bible believers love other believers sacrificially. Now you know what that means. Hey, we don't agree on everything. We dress differently. We we have different haircut hairstyles. We, all we're we're different.

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But God loves diversity. And you know what? I have seen believers love other believers who are different than themselves. And that's exactly what it means to love sacrificially the way Jesus loved you. So as true believers, we're to love each other with God's kind of love. It's a sacrificial love. Number two, it's a caring love. It's a caring love.

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Look at verse 33, little children, I am with you a little while longer. I want you to imagine that you're Peter, James and John, and you hear Jesus, whom you've been following for three years, whom you love dearly. And he's saying to you, I'll only be with you a little while longer. You will seek me. And as I said to the Jews, now also say to you, where I'm going, you cannot come.

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Now take your Bible, flip back to John chapter eight and look at verse 21. This is what Jesus said to the religious leaders of his day who were in such opposition against him. He said to them, I go away and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. And where I am going, you cannot go.

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Do you see the difference here to these unbelievers who are in opposition to him? He said, you'll seek me, but you will not. You will not be able to find me, and you will die in your sin. And where I'm going, you cannot come but notice what he says here in our text 13, chapter 13. Verse 33, little children, I'm with you a little while you will seek me.

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And as I said to the Jews now also say to you, where I'm going, you cannot come. He didn't say they were dying their sins. Do you know why? It's because their sins have been forgiven. Because they have put their faith in trust in Jesus. Can I say a word to you? You may be in this room. You may be watching live stream, and.

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And you are carrying a burden of guilt because of things you've done in the past. Are our words that you said in the past, and it's eaten you alive. Can I tell you this? If you will turn from your sin and place your faith in Jesus, God will forgive you. He will forgive you. He will separate that sin from you.

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As far as the East is from the West. He will never condemn you for all of eternity because of sin, because Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty for your sins. You will seek me, as I said to the Jew. Now also say to you, where I'm going, you cannot come. It's interesting that Jesus referred to his disciples here as little children.

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This reference only occurs one time in the Gospel of John right here. It does not occur in the rest of the New Testament except the epistle. First John, and in first John. This term little children for believers occurs seven times seven times. It speaks of the tender feelings that Jesus had for those who believed in him, who had trusted him as Savior and Lord, and had followed him for three years.

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He called them little children. It's like a father loves and cares for his kids, and would spare nothing in order to meet the needs of his kids. First, Jesus tells these disciples and he'll be with him a little while longer. He's like a father getting his children ready for that moment when they want. They will not have a face to face relationship the way they've enjoyed for three years.

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But there will be a transition in their relationship with Jesus would now be a spiritual, faith based relationship, and the Lord explained to them that they couldn't follow him at that particular moment, but they would be reunited later. In John chapter one, verse 12, the Bible says, but as many as received him, that Jesus to them he gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in his name.

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You say, pastor, I would love to be a child of God. You can, wherever you are, whatever you've done, you can be a child of God, but you must believe in Jesus. You must put your faith and trust in Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior to become a child of God. Now listen in first Peter chapter five, verse six and seven, Peter wrote, therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you as a proper time, casting all your anxiety on him.

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Get there. Don't miss it, because he cares for you. Can I tell you something? The Son of God and God the Father and God the Holy Spirit loves you. They care for you. He will meet your deepest needs at the moment of your deepest trouble. In Psalm 5522, the Bible says, cast your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you.

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He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. Oh, can I tell you that the love of God is a caring love? He cares for you when you stand before the freshly dug grave of a spouse or a child or a grandparent, I'm telling you, the love of God is a caring love. He cares for you. He will meet your deepest needs.

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When everybody goes home, his presence will be real for you. He will give you his grace and his mercy and his peace. Why? Because he loves you and he cares for you. Listen here. Here's the truth. That we got a rivet to our. Here's the truth we've got to obey. Today. Are you ready? Remember, lip service doesn't work.

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We've got to obey this command. We've got to love each other. Just as Jesus loves us. You say, pastor, that's hard. That's hard. But you don't have to love in your own power. You have the Holy Spirit to help you love people who are hard to love. Listen, we're talking about a sacrificial love, a caring love. And thirdly, we're talking about a distinctive love.

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What is the distinctive mark of a true believer? If you're if you're looking to identify true believers, what what distinguishes them from those who are not believers? Well, you say, well, they love good preaching. No, that's not it. They love great worship music. That's not it. They love to read the Bible. That's not it. They love to pray.

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They love to be involved in a connect group. That's not it. You can do all of those things and all of those things are good things, by the way. You can do all of those things and still not be a born again believer. Still not be a child of God. What is the one Mark that distinguishes a believer from someone who is not a believer?

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Are you ready? Look at this text. John 1334 and 35 Jesus said, A new commandment I give to you. Remember, it's just 11 guys he's talking to here. He's not talking to a big crowd. He's talking to to 11 men who had formed the nucleus of church leadership that would cause the church to explode on the scene after the resurrection of Christ.

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And he says to them, A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Yes, Peter, that's for you, John. That's for you, James. That's for you, Nathaniel. That's for you. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. That you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples.

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If you have love for one another. The word love here is agape love. It's God's kind of love. It's unconditional love. Let me tell you, a husband ought to love his wife unconditionally and sacrificially. A wife ought to love her husband unconditionally and sacrificially. Children should love their parents unconditionally and sacrificially with agape. They love. The word love is used only 12 times in John chapter 1 to 12.

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But when you move into chapter 13 to 21 is the word love is used 44 times, 44 times. Now what is the Holy Spirit trying to drive home to us? Well, it's a key word in Christ's farewell sermon to his disciples. But why did Jesus call this a new commandment? I thought we were commanded to love in the Old Testament.

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Well, we are in Deuteronomy chapter 656, verse five. This command we're told to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. And then in Leviticus 1918, we're called upon to love other people. So we're to love God, and we're to love people. So why did Jesus call this a new commandment? Well, it presented the highest standard of love.

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Never before in human history had anyone been able to say that you're to follow the example of the Son of God, because the Son of God had not been here prior to this moment? Believers must love one another even as Jesus loved them. That's the highest standard of all. Can you imagine the looks on Peter and James and John's face?

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Faces? Did they really understand? I'm not sure they understood it at this point, but I'll tell you on Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came, they began to understand what Jesus meant when he said this. Never before in human history had anyone who believed in God faced this daunting challenge to love other believers the way Christ loved them. In John chapter 15, verses 12 and 13, Jesus would say later on in this farewell sermon, this is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

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Greater love has this has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. Ephesians chapter five, verses one and two Paul wrote, therefore be imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for us, and offering in a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

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Walk in love, just as Christ also loved you. In his book the Mark of a Christian by Francis Schaefer.

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He listed two practical ways that Christians can love each other. And boy, does this apply in families. It applies in the church, he said. Number one, apologize to those whom you have wronged. Can you imagine what would happen in this church and in all churches if we wronged somebody? If we would go to them and say, I'm sorry, I should not have said that to you.

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I should not have done that. Would you please forgive me? I tell you, it would change everything. Maybe the Holy Spirit is laying on your heart right now, that you need to go to someone after this service, and you need to tell them that you're sorry that you have said something or done something that offended them. You know, Jesus said in the sermon on the Mount, if you've done anything to offend someone, leave your offering there and go make it right with them.

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And then come give your offering.

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There's somebody you need to apologize to. And then secondly, Francis Schaefer said, not only should we apologize to those whom we have wronged, but we need to forgive those who have hurt you. Forgive them in light of the eternal forgiveness that comes through the cross. Christians should be eager to forgive people who hurt them. Hey, there's a lot of wounded people in churches today at the Tennessee Baptist Convention, I talked with a pastor who had a fresh wound.

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I mean, it's fresh. There are people in his church, leaders in his church who've come against him. I'm tell you, this guy is a godly man. He loves the Bible. He preaches a word of God. He loves his people. He's a great shepherd for the flock. And yet this group wants to be the power source in the church.

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And and they've come against him and they've heard him deeply. They've heard his wife.

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Do you know what the world thinks when they see that? Here's what they think. There's a bunch of hypocrites in that church. And there are. You know, the greatest testimony that we have to a waiting, watching world is when we love each other, just like Christ loves us. He's a man. I'd love to see people get saved in our community.

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Well, love each other like Christ is loved. You.

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You say, I want to see my boss come to faith in Christ. You know what's interesting? Jesus and this new commandment didn't say that you were to love your unsaved boss. Now you should love him. But he zeroed in on the fact that your unsaved boss needs to see you loving other believers in the church, and maybe he will believe the gospel.

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Amen. But if you're a cantankerous Christian and you don't love people in the church and you're stirring up trouble in the church, you know what the Bible says. The Bible says you're being a hypocrite and you're hurting the cause of Christ, and you're robbing Christ of his glory.

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Forgive those who hurt you. That's hard to do, isn't it? It's hard to do. In Ephesians chapter four, verse 31 and 32, Paul wrote, let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you. Along with all malice. Look at verse 32, be kind to one another. Man, you can you imagine the difference it make in this church and in all churches?

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If we're just simply kind to each other, tenderhearted, as opposed to hard hearted, forgiving each other. Now listen. Don't miss it. Forgiving each other. Just as God in Christ Jesus has forgiven you, what right do we have to withhold forgiveness from anybody who hurt us? We have no right because God in Christ Jesus has forgiven us.

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I want you to get this thought fixed in your mind is so important. Love each other. Just like Jesus loves you. We're talking about the amazing love of God here. We're talking about a sacrificial love, a caring love, and we're talking about a distinctive love where people in Collierville can know that we're the real deal because we love each other, and they're ready to hear the gospel because we love each other and forth.

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And finally, this amazing love is a lasting love. It's a lasting love. Now let's get this straight. Jesus knew before it ever happened he knew that the disciples in the upper room when push came to shove. And there in the Garden of Gethsemane, and just a matter of a few hours and the the authorities would come with their lanterns and with their weapons and and they would come to arrest Jesus.

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He knew that these disciples would run for the hills. He knew they would flee. And you know something else? He knew that Peter would deny him three times. Jesus knew that. But look at this interaction between Jesus and Peter, verses 36 to 38. Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? It's like Peter checked out and missed an important part of Jesus message.

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He's going back to where Jesus are talking about departing. Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus answered, where I go, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later. He's going to pay. Peter's in heaven. Trust me. And Peter said to him, Lord, why can I not follow you right now? Listen to this boast.

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This is pride. This is pride talking. Peter said, Lord, I will lay down my life for you.

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And Jesus answered, Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, A rooster will not crow until you deny me three times.

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I'll tell you, even with the disciples abandoning Jesus when he needed the most, even when Peter denied him three times, Jesus still loved them. Look at verse one of chapter 13. Look how this chapter begins now before the feast of the Passover. Jesus, knowing that is our had come, that he was going to the cross, and that he would depart out of this world to the father.

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Having looked here, having loved his own. Who were in the world? Look at this. He loved them to the end. You know what that means? He loved them eternally. He loved Peter when he did not in three times in acts of the resurrection, Jesus reached out to Peter. Remember? Peter became a great apostle, a leader of the church.

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I tell you, this amazing love of God.

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Is a lasting love. So here's our challenge as a church. We're challenged with a new commandment to love each other. Like Jesus loves us. Now the question is, will we obey this new commandment?

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Now look, you can talk a good game. Jesus is not looking for your talk. He's looking for your walk. Jesus is looking to see if you will obey this new commandment. You say, well, that don't apply to me. Oh, it does apply if you're a believer and it applies to you, you can't get out of it. It applies to you.

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God's kind of love is a sacrificial love, a caring love, a distinctive love, and a lasting love. Isn't that the kind of love you want? You may be here today. You say, pastor, nobody loves me like that. I'm looking for someone to love me and I'm gonna take. Carnival is full of people who are looking for somebody that will love them.

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I know somebody. His name is Jesus. And he will love you and forgive you and change you and give you the gift of eternal life and a brand new destiny with him forever. If you will only repent of your sin and place your faith in him. And I invite you to do that this morning.

00;41;51;05 - 00;42;18;18
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But I'm going to say a word again to believers. I want to ask you two questions. Is there someone in this church? In your family that you need to apologize to? You've hurt them. Will you apologize to them?

00;42;18;20 - 00;42;27;29
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And secondly. Is there somebody that you need to forgive?

00;42;28;02 - 00;42;37;25
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Is there somebody? You need to forgive.

00;42;37;27 - 00;42;58;08
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Hey, this is a it's a tender moment. I'm telling you, the spirit of the living God will bless any church. That chooses to walk in obedience to what we've looked at today.

00;42;58;11 - 00;43;24;11
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He'll bless you if you apologize to somebody you've hurt. Hey, I've apologized to people that I've run before. And it's like they don't receive it. That's okay. That's doing them. Lord, I've got to do what the Lord wants me. I've got to obey Jesus.

00;43;24;14 - 00;43;53;26
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I have I forgave a man one time for doing something that was so hurtful, and he never even admitted that he did it. He just walked off. You know what? I felt free. I felt free because I did what Jesus told me to do. Hey, would you bow your heads for just a moment? Ask our staff and our worship team to come.

00;43;53;29 - 00;44;25;01
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It's very important. I'm going to ask you to do something for me today. Please don't get up and walk out during this time. Please. Let's give the Holy Spirit a chance to work in our hearts. Some of you who are believers need to come to this altar, and you need to ask the Lord to help you to apologize to somebody that the Holy Spirit laid on your heart.

00;44;25;04 - 00;44;33;08
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Or you need to come to this altar and ask the Lord to help you, to forgive somebody who hurt you.

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Why? But because you want to obey this new commandment.

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And some of you in this room have been looking for love in all the wrong places. And I'm telling you, nobody can love you the way God loves you, the way Christ loves you. Believe in him. Trust him. Come to one of our staff members. Tell them that you want to be saved and trust Jesus today. Come to the altar.

00;45;14;24 - 00;45;27;26
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Let the Spirit of God don't work in your heart. Father, in the name of Jesus, have your way in our hearts. In Christ's name, Amen. Let's stand and worship and you come.