Title: John 13:31-38 / New Commandment
Contents
John 11:31-38 / “I give you a new commandment, love one another!”
* Jesus, with the way of the cross at the forefront, / told his disciples that his path was the path of glory
& I'm with you like this now / but after a while I'm leaving for a place you can't follow
& “Now you love each other! Love one another as I have loved you!”
& says
* Through today's text, "What kind of person Jesus is... What are the lessons he gives me..."
& Let's think about it.
* As our proverb says, “When a tiger dies, he leaves his skin / When a man dies, he leaves his name” /
& I believe / in fact, people don't leave names / when they die. Person!!
* In this world, the truly successful / are those who live and love people.
- A man who made a lot of money, / not a man of high power // by loving people.
& “A person who truly loves life / has a co-worker who can share everything!” /
& “People with crowns left behind through me” // These are the true successors.
* In that sense, / our Lord / really lived a “successful life.”
Verse 33!
* Our Lord's greatest concern is “people”.
- So, Jesus loved his disciples very much.
- The disciples had many “weak points” / even though they knew they would “betray themselves”
& knowing that he would run away, denying him three times // loved him to the end.
* In the text you just read / what did Jesus call his disciples?
& “Little ones!” - “Little children”
- If you read this in the original text, "My children!" / “My children!”
* And what do you say?
- “My children! / I'm with you now, / but in a little while, I'll go where you've been looking and can't find it! / So a must for you! I have something to say"
- Also, in verses 34-35, are you referring to the “new commandment”?
* Previously, I saw a young mother who died of cancer first in a documentary on t.v.
- The young mother / leaving her beloved little son to her father / as she passed away...
& caring for his son / saw him cry tears of great pain.
- Rather than his own pain and suffering suffering from cancer / Seeing his son left behind... His heart aches!!
* This is the heart of our Jesus in today's text.
- Because I loved you so much / (More than the pain you will suffer after a while) /
& (My children! calling) / Seeing the disciples left behind, he felt even more heartbroken.
** While meditating today / I have to show “the heart of the Lord and the love of the Lord”.
<Application> Every time I meditate on “the heart of Jesus’ love” / Because I see no such love at all in me
& I feel infinitely ashamed. <Sometimes I want to run away>
- So, I pray today.
& "Lord! I have no love. I'm always ashamed when it comes to love. Lord give me love”
2. What was the message that Jesus, who was in pain to love, / to the remaining disciples / left as a will?
Verses 34-35
* “I give you a new commandment / You love one another!! / Love one another as I have loved you!”
- Everyone! Are you living in obedience to these words?
** We love one another, but how should we love each other?
- “Love one another as Jesus loved us!” I am speaking.
<Today's meditation point - to meditate all day...>
1) Jesus loved his disciples / without self-interest.
* Jesus loved his disciples / but he didn't expect anything from them or that he loved them.
- We, too, / love each other... //
& “What can this person do for me? / What does it benefit me?”
& you shouldn't ask this.
- Rather, “What can I do for this person? / What can I give you?”
& you have to ask.
2) Second, Jesus loved his disciples / with great trust.
* Even though Jesus knew all too well that the disciples had many weaknesses and weaknesses...
& Do you trust them? / Trust me.
<Our Korean baseball made it to the WBC finals / Manager Kim In-sik's baseball is usually called - [Baseball of Faith]. / It is strange to see players released from other teams enter a new heyday when Hanwha arrives again - because the coach believes in the player's abilities, waits for him, and gives encouragement and praise...>
- We too must love ourselves / with trust.
- Do not doubt my co-worker. /
- Even if it is, trust me / trust me until the end.
<I don't know anything else / I'm pretty good at this. - Everyone around gives me the source for that person. They're all negative sources. / They tell you to be careful. // However, once I become my co-worker, I believe in myself no matter what. You trust the words of the person around you more than the words of the people around you. Trust me... / Trust me even if I lack ability. The hat part was done because I thought I had to cover it. = “Everyone! that person! Please believe me!!”>
3. Jesus loved his disciples / but he loved them “with compassion.”
* To be compassionate = to share the heart.
- Jesus loved his disciples / but he always loved them with the same feelings and heart.
** When the disciples grieved, Jesus grieved with them, and when they rejoiced, he rejoiced with them.
<It's empathy, but? / = You are very empathetic>
- We love each other a little bit, but please show empathy.
<You have to live a life that is more overbearing than usual.>
4. Jesus loved his disciples / but he loved them with patience.
- How ignorant / were the disciples weak in their faith?
- The disciples' ignorance and unbelief / must have made our Lord's heart very sad.
** But / Jesus spoke again and again, / until they realized the truth.
& I say it over and over again. / You've been waiting, and you've been patient.
- We too must love each other / with patience.
- You must not give up easily / be easily determined / and draw a line easily.
3. Verses 37-38
- Jesus said, "Soon I will go to a place that you cannot follow."
- Peter asks? - "Where are you going, Jesus?
- "You can't follow me now / but you will follow me next time"
- “No, what do you mean? / I can give my life for you.”
& “I will give my life / to follow and obey”
- "no. You will deny me three times before the rooster crows.”
* Many people / as they meditate on these words... // “Don’t be too sure!”
& “My motivation should not take precedence” so apply / and testify of the Word.
* By the way, as I meditated on these words / today, God made me meditate from a different angle
- Although Peter / did not live as he said and failed
& I am envious of your passion to follow and serve the Lord with your life.
- Peter / “Jesus! I will give my life to follow you.”
& Jesus said, “You pathetic bastard! / You're the one who will deny me three times in a minute! / You pathetic bastard!”
& Did you hear those words with that in mind? will do.
** In my view / although the Lord knew that Peter would deny him three times because of his weakness.
& “Lord, I will risk my life to follow you.” At that time, / I think my heart was very happy.
- When I was going to pioneer / young leaders came to me and said they would follow me.
<Sang-eun, Seong-eun, and Ok Seon-in are not the then leaders, but the next middle leaders.>
** So, I dried it.
- “What I’ve poured out so far / If you guys follow me… everything will be ruined.”
- By the way, / although I didn't follow you, / you don't know how grateful I was to say that.
- Although Peter was weak now / and fell and failed...
& but as his confession / eventually God through the process of training...
& You risked your life to make you a leader, right?
<Application> Do I have the same passion and confession as Peter today?