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Feb 05, 2023

John - The One Thing (click for resources)

Passage: John 13:31-35

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: John: Come and See

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: love

Theme: Love makes the world go ‘round. Literally. God in his very nature is Love, which propels Him to be loving in everything that he does, even when it doesn’t seem like it. He has ultimately poured down this Love in the person of Jesus, who “loved us to the end.” And now, with our DNA changed back into the “Love Image” of God, we are called and enabled to Love Upward in Worship, Love Around in Community, Love Out in Service.

Theme: Love makes the world go ‘round. Literally. God in his very nature is Love, which propels Him to be loving in everything that he does, even when it doesn’t seem like it. He has ultimately poured down this Love in the person of Jesus, who “loved us to the end.” And now, with our DNA changed back into the “Love Image” of God, we are called and enabled to Love Upward in Worship, Love Around in Community, Love Out in Service.

 

CENTRAL PASSAGE: John 13:31-35
 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’  34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

 

 

SERMON DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

What are your favorite song lyrics about “Love”?
What are your favorite movie/tv clips about “Love”?

Talk about this quote: “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.” (Nat King Cole)

Try to define love

There are four classic types of love:
Agapeo - respect and reverence
Phileo - emotion and passion
Eros - Romantic
Storge - Family

But these 4 types are not cleanly separated. They overlap and run into one another all over the place. How do you see that?
(i.e. how does Storge and Phileo overlap? Agapeo and Eros?)

How can “loving one another” be a new commandment? God has already told us to do that a bunch of times.

What is the connection between the Ten Commandments and this “new commandment”?

Look at this John 21 conversation between Jesus and Peter -- see the intermingling of Phileo and Agapeo -- what do you see in there?

How is it that the driving force behind us loving others is the Lord loving us?

What do you think about this thought:

“We will only receive the amount of love that we think we deserve?”

“We will only give the amount of love we think we’ve been given”