The Love of Jesus

016 The Love of Jesus

John 13:1

June 28, 2015

Colossians 3:12-14

“So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.”

Compassion – feeding 5,000

Kindness – Woman at the well

Humility – Incarnation

Gentleness – Arrest

Patience – Delayed 2nd Coming

TONIGHT LOVE

#1 UNWAVERING LOVE

John 13:1a

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father,

Hebrews 9:11-14

“But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

John 15:13

"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”

1 John 4:10

“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

John 3:16

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”

#2 UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

John 13:1b

having loved His own who were in the world,

John 13:8

“Peter said to Him, "Never shall You wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."

Romans 5:8

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 3:10-18

“as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE; THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD; ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE." "THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING," "THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS"; "WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS"; "THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD, DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS, AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN." "THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES."

1 John 4:19

“We love, because He first loved us.”

Generous Love

·        John 14:2 – “I go to prepare a place for you”

·        John 14:3 – “I will come again and receive you to Myself”

·        John 14:13 – “Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it”

·        John 14:27 – “Peace I leave with you”

·        John 15:11 – “These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.”

·        John 16:7 – “I will send Him to you” (Helper)

#3 UNENDING LOVE

John 13:1c

He loved them to the end.

Romans 8:37-39

“But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

TURN TO: John 17:11-26

APPLICATION

John 13:34-35

"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, if you have love for one another."