Hello and welcome again
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to this program
"Books of the Book."
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My name is Deyvy Rodriquez
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and I am so happy
that you can take this time
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and open the Bible and
study the Word of God with us.
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We are studying
the Gospel of John
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and today we are in Chapter
13 and starting in verse 31.
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And by this time
Jesus has already
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washed the disciple's feet
and also Judas has left them.
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And with us is Dr. Jon
Paulien, he is a Bible scholar.
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And he is a brilliant scholar,
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especially in this
book, the Gospel of John.
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In fact he has
written three books
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on the Gospel of John that is.
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And Dr. Jon
Paulien, welcome again.
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And I say that you
are a brilliant scholar
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because I've been blessed
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with the studies
you see or you point out
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all these spiritual
lessons from the Gospel of John
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that otherwise I had not seen.
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And I want to thank you
again for being with us.
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You are the dean of Religion
at Loma Linda University.
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Yeah, we call it
the School of Religion.
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The School of Religion.
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I've been there
about six years. Six years.
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Before that you were at
Andrews, is that correct?
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Yes, I was in a New
Testament department
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at Andrews University for
something like 25 years. Okay.
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And tell us shortly
about your doctorate.
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Well, I actually went to Andrews
University for the doctorate
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and in the midst of that program
I was teaching some classes
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and I guess the
students were bit disruptive,
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so they decide to keep me.
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And by the way, Dr.
Paulien says that his,
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the favorite things
to do in his free time
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is study and
read, right? Some of it.
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When you get into it deeply,
you want to do more. All right.
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You said you
enjoy it rather than--
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That's right. That's right.
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Well, where are we here
in Chapter 13 and verses 31?
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Well, this is
again a transition point.
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Judas has gone out and sometimes
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there's a presence of a person
who can be kind of disruptive.
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People won't really speak
totally honestly sometimes
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while someone is there.
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When Judas leaves,
it seems to free Jesus
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to be really open
with His disciples
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at a level He hadn't before.
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And so the first discourse
of Jesus here starts in 13:31
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goes to the end of Chapter 14.
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And starting here
is what scholars called
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the farewell discourse of Jesus.
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He is saying
goodbye to His disciples.
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He knows that He
is going to the cross.
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He knows He is not going to
be with them for much longer
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and here He
gives some information
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that will prepare them for
how to live in His absence.
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So a major theme of
this farewell discourses,
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which goes all the way up
through 16 is the Holy Spirit
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because in a real sense,
the Holy Spirit replaces Jesus
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and does for the disciples
what Jesus Himself was gonna do.
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But there is a second theme here
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and that is in a real
sense the disciples themselves
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replace Jesus on this earth.
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So through the Holy Spirit,
the disciples are enabled
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to do the work that
Jesus had been doing
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on earth throughout the world.
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And Jesus even says,
it's better if I go away
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because I am only one
but through My disciples
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the world can be
impacted even more deeply
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and more
extensively than otherwise.
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So farewell
discourses are pretty common.
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In the Old Testament
you can think of Joshua,
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who gave a farewell
discourse, Jacob in Genesis 49,
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David in 1 Chronicles 28 and 29.
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You have a number of
people who give a farewell
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when they are about
to die or about to leave
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and Jesus picks up
on this and does it.
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Now the theme of
the first part is love
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and He picks up
really on Chapter 13:1.
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Why don't you read that again?
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"Now before the
feast of the Passover,
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when Jesus knew
that His hour had come
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that He should depart
from this world to the Father,
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having loved his own
who were in the world,
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He loved them to
the end." All right.
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So here Jesus
indicates that His focus now
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is going to be on the
love that He has for them
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and the whole foot
washing is all about that love.
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When you get to verse 31,
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the translation doesn't reflect
it but just read that verse.
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"So when he had
gone out, Jesus said,
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'Now the Son of
Man is glorified,
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and God is glorified in him.'"
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Its' clear that
translators didn't really know
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what to do with the Greek here,
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that's the same as true
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with the
translation I have in my hand.
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The Greek word is therefore.
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Judas leaves and then therefore.
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Therefore, you don't
start a new paragraph.
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You don't start a new
chapter with therefore.
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Clearly what
happens from verse 31 on
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is designed to explain to some
degree what happened before,
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the foot washing,
Judas leaving etcetera.
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Jesus, now, that Judas
is gone opens Himself up.
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You know, it's hard to
talk about spiritual things
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when somebody is around
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who is just
dismissive or disrespectful.
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Judas has gone, now Jesus goes
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heart to heart
with the disciples.
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I would suggest you read
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verses 31 to the
end of the chapter.
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It's one of the most famous
parts of all the four gospels.
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We will pick up on 32 then,
"If God is glorified in Him,
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God will also
glorify Him in Himself,
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and glorify Him immediately.
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Little children, I shall be
with you a little while longer.
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You will seek Me, and
I've said to the Jews,
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'Where I am
going, you cannot come,'
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so now I say to you.
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A new commandment I give
you, that you love one another,
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as I have loved you,
you also love one another.
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By this all will know
that you are My disciples,
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if you have
love for one another.
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Simon Peter said to Him,
'Lord, where are You going?'
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Jesus answered him,
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'Where I am going
you cannot follow Me now,
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but you shall
follow Me afterward.'
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Peter said to Him,
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'Lord, why can I
not follow You now?
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I will lay down my
life for Your sake.'
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Jesus answered him,
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'Will you lay down
your life for My sake?
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Most assuredly, I say to
you, the rooster shall not crow
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till you have
denied Me three times.'"
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Couple things dynamics
happening in this passage.
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First of all it's stating
a theme that's constantly
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throughout this
farewell discourse,
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that is Jesus is
saying, "I am going away,
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and where I am
going you cannot follow."
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He elaborates
that later on to say,
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"I am going away and where I
am going you can't follow now
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but you will follow later."
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So He is alluding here
that He is going to His death
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but in the broader sense,
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he is also
alluding to His ascension.
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After the death Jesus
comes back but not to stay.
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He comes back to
ascend to heaven.
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So He lets them
know, He is going away
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and disciples get
very depressed about this
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and you will see
the impact of that
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as we go through these chapters.
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The other theme of
the section is love
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and in verses 34
and 35 Jesus says,
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"A new command I give you,
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love one another
as I have loved you.
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So you must love one another."
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What's the key to
that kind of love?
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I think it was illustrated
in the foot washing service.
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The only way you can
have deep long lasting love
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is through daily,
hourly forgiveness.
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In my marriage, you know,
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we, two people living
together, working together,
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trying to
develop a relationship,
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we've been together 39 years.
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I can tell you
that the best times
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have been since
we truly grasp this
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that you can't be in
an intimate relationship
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year after, year after
year without forgiveness.
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We all say stuff, do stuff
that irritates the other person.
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If you focus on the irritations,
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the relationship
just grinds to halt.
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But if you have the self
sacrificing spirit of Jesus,
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one can go into
that relationship
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with the intent of
forgiveness. Everyday forgive.
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You know, we sometimes
let irritations pile up.
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You know, years of
them, decades of them
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and people get snippier
and snippier with each other.
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And then comes the time when
you realize I need to forgive,
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get that whole
load out of the way
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and then forgive everyday.
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You see the big
forgiveness is baptism,
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the little
forgiveness is foot washing.
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So foot washing represents
those daily little irritations
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that we need to just lay aside.
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And if we forgive them,
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then they can't get in
the way of the relationship
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and to just keep forgiving.
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And Jesus says in verse
35, "This is how men will know
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that you are My
disciples because of the love
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that you have for one another."
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A challenge I might
throw out to our viewers.
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The church where you attend,
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the religious
community that you are part of,
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is it known in the
community for its love
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or is it known for other things?
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Jesus says, "People
will know that you know Me
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by the love you
have for each other"
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because that love is a miracle.
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Genuine Jesus type love isn't
something you can manufacture.
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It isn't something you can
get up in the morning and say,
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I am going to love
today, you know, no.
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That genuine love is a
miracle whenever it happens
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and forgiveness,
true genuine forgiveness
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is a miracle
whenever it happens.
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And so Jesus points this out.
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The miracle that truly
demonstrates that God is real
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and that this
community is following Him,
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that miracle is the way
that they treat each other.
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And as we treat each
other that will be the miracle
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that secular people,
atheist, non-Christians
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that are out
there looking and say,
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"I've never seen that
before. That is amazing."
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But if they look at
a Christian community
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and see people that
are snipping at each other,
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see people that are acting
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just like anybody
in the world would act.
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They will look and say,
he's not doing anything,
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he's not changing anything.
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This isn't
significant, this isn't helpful.
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So he says by this everyone will
know that you are My disciples.
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You love one another
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because disciples do
what the Master does.
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They wash feet just
like the Master did.
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If you do what Jesus
did, people will say,
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that's
different, that's amazing.
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And forgiveness and love
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are very connected to
one another. Absolutely.
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I cannot love if I don't
have the spirit of forgiveness.
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If I am not
willing to forgive you,
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if I don't
forgive how can I allow
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that bitterness
in my heart to go
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and at the same
time wanting to love.
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And the gospel writer
of John in 1 John as well,
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he talk so much of
love, the God is love
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and that if we don't forgive--
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we can't forgive others how
can we love God. That's right.
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How can you love God
whom you've never seen,
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if you can't love
people that you can see?
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And the love that
Jesus is talking about
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is to love people when it hurts,
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to love people
when it's inconvenient,
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to love people even when
other people are mocking you.
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That kind of
love can't be taught.
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It's a miracle when it happens.
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And those who
wish to follow Jesus,
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given themselves to Him,
allow Him to transform them
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into that kind of love.
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Well, that sounds like a
wonderful discourse to give
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just before you
leave a farewell,
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as we say a
farewell discourse on love.
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And so where else is
Jesus taking the disciples
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as far as His discourse?
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Well, in Chapter 14, He
takes them in another direction.
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And He speaks
again to this idea,
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He is going away but
He is going to come back.
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John 14:1-3.
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"Let not your heart be troubled
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you believe in
God, believe also in me.
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In my Father's
house are many mansions
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if it were not so,
I would have told you.
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I go to prepare a place for you.
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And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
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I will come again,
and receive you to myself,
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that where I am,
there you may be also be."
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So the disciples are
alarmed that Jesus is going away
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but the first
comfort He gives them,
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He says, "Look, I am going away
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but there's a
purpose in my going away.
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I am going to be
preparing a place for you
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and you will join
me there later on."
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So the first point of comfort
is that when He goes away,
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they can be assured
that He will come back.
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So I think at this
point we should go to a break
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but let's come back to these
three verses when we return.
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