08-12-2018 – Exemplifying the Love of Christ

The following is the bulletin insert:

08-12-2018

Exemplifying the Love of Christ

John 13: 1-17

Galatians 3:26-29, “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.” Read John 13:1... Jesus “loved His own to the end.”
God loves sinners (cf. John 3:16), but His love for His own (Ephesians 3:19) “surpasses knowledge” (Romans 8:35, 38), “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 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.”
Read John 13:2... God used an pagan to kill His Son. Read John 13:3-11... Jesus, God’s Son (John 1:1-3, 14, 18), came from heaven to show us the Father.
Peter understood later:
1Peter 2:24, “He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.” 1Peter 3:18, For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit”
1Corinthians 6:11, “you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.”
1Peter 3:21, “not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
2Corinthians 5:21, “[God] made Him [Jesus] who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
1John 1:7, “the blood of Jesus [God’s] Son cleanses us from all sin.”
Read John 13:12-17... Jesus has washed the disciples feet (including Judas), as a lowly slave, shouldn’t they follow His example of humble servitude?
Mark 10:43-45, “whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant; and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
After washing their feet, He said (Luke 22:27), “who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves.”
Psalm 119:1, “How blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.”
Mark 3:33, 35, “Who are My mother and My brothers?” ”Whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother.”
Luke 11:28, “blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”
Philippians 2:5-8, “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
1John 2:6, “the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.”
John 13:35, “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Mark 12:30-31, ”You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength’ [and] ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”