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 Good morning, IPC. Let us pray.

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 Lord, you are the living God. Speak to us today.

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! Let us hear what only you have to say.

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! In Jesus' name, Amen.

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 Jesus says,

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 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

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 Love and obey.

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 These are a pair of words that we often associate with what we ought to do.

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 We ought to love one another.

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 We ought to love God.

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 And we ought to obey.

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 We ought to obey or keep God's commandments.

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 We ought to obey authorities and parents and so on.

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 But there is no commandment in this passage,

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 in the passage that we read in John 14.

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 There are no commandments.

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 Jesus is describing the disciples' action.

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 This is what he tells them.

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 He says,

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 The disciples are going to know the Spirit and live with him.

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 The disciples will see Christ even though the world does not.

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 They will live because Christ lives.

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 They will comprehend the unity of God and his people.

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 But there are no commandments.

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 And I think the focus of this passage is on love more than on commandments.

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 It's on our love for God and God's love for us.

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 If you love me, that's the possibility.

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 So what exactly then is required of a Christian when Christ says this?

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 If you love me.

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 Christian morality is really comprised of two parts.

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 Think of it as a floor and a ceiling.

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 On the floor of Christian morality, on the sort of foundational level,

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 we have things like a lot of the Ten Commandments,

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 which we read in here often.

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 Don't steal.

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 Don't murder.

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 Don't commit adultery.

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 And so on.

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 Yes, we will break these commandments sometimes in some ways.

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 But these are a foundational level of what we ought to do as Christians.

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 But these also have a ceiling.

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 What do I mean by a ceiling?

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 Well, don't commit adultery.

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 That's the floor.

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 Love your wife as Christ loved the church.

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 That's the ceiling.

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 Don't murder.

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 That's the floor.

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 But as we know, Jesus says,

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 I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be judged.

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 Do not steal.

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 Versus, blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

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 The rich young ruler comes to Jesus.

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 And what does he say?

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 What must I do?

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 To obtain eternal life.

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 Jesus says, well, you need to keep the commandments.

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 And he says, I've kept all the commandments from my youth.

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 There's one thing I require.

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 Give up all you have and follow me.

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 That is a ceiling.

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 And the same is true for loving God.

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 We must love God with all our heart, all our mind, and all of our strength.

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 As he who called you is holy, says Peter, you also be holy in all of your conduct.

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 Since it is written, you shall be holy for I am holy.

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 In short, be as holy as God.

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 Love him with everything you are.

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 That's not minimal Christian morality.

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 Do you remember what happens at the end of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?

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 Gene Wilder is sitting there with that usual kind of crazed look in his eye.

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 And he's sitting across from the boy, Charlie Bucket.

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 And they're in a sort of rocket ship or elevator sort of capsule thing.

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 And then it starts to go up and up and up and up until it eventually breaks through the glass ceiling.

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 And they somehow fly around looking at the town.

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 That's a wonderful picture of what we don't do as Christians.

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 We don't blast through the ceiling of God's demands.

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 Does anyone for more than maybe ten minutes have an intense affection for the Lord?

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 Is anyone ready to give up everything and follow him?

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 Ready to put your life on the line for Christ?

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 Maybe you are ready.

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 But most of us, most of the time, need to increase our love for God.

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 We need more affection for Christ.

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 We need courage to give up our own interests for the sake of his name.

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 This takes us back to Willy Wonka one more time.

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 We're a little more like the fizzy lifting drink.

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 Right?

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 Charlie Bucket and his grandpa drink the fizzy lifting drink.

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 And they start to float up to the top of the tunnel.

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 And they start to burp the fizzy drink.

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 And they start to slowly float back down.

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 Until finally they come to rest on the floor.

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 Popping up once in a while, mainly floating down to the ground.

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 We're just kind of content on the floor.

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 But we do love Christ.

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 That's not what I'm saying.

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 We do love Christ.

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 And it's possible, maybe in some way, that the rich young ruler did keep the commandments from his youth.

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 And it is true.

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 Christians love Jesus.

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 You are not indifferent about Christ.

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 But Jesus wants more of our love.

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 He wants us to increase our love for him.

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 He wants us to love him with all of our heart and mind and strength.

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 We're in John 14.

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 If your Bibles aren't open, go ahead and find John 14.

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 This occurs in what's called the Upper Room Discourse.

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 It's John chapters 13 to 17.

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 The Upper Room Discourse or the Farewell Discourse.

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 Now before this, Jesus has been going along on his ministry.

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 And that portion concludes with him arriving into Jerusalem.

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 And then he meets with his disciples.

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 And they have this final lengthy meeting together.

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 And then after this section in chapter 18, it's basically Jesus' passion.

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 His death and then his resurrection and reappearance to his followers.

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 Our section, not chapter 14, but chapter 13, our section begins like this.

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 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father,

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 having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

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 What is about to occur is in itself an expression of Christ's love.

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 An expression of Christ's love for his disciples.

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 And you know this story.

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 He cleanses them physically.

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 This is when he washes their feet.

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 But he also cleanses them symbolically.

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 After he washes their feet, they're sitting around the table.

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 And for some light dinner table conversation, he says, one of you will betray me.

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 And Judas is exposed and Judas departs.

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 The disciples are cleansed in this symbolic way.

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 And then comes the news from Jesus himself.

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 I too must depart.

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 I am leaving and where I am going, you cannot come, he says.

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 What do these men need now?

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 Reassurance?

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 Comfort?

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 Comfort?

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 Instruction about how this is all going to work without Jesus?

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 Jesus goes on to tell them,

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 Believe in me.

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 Remember that my words are authoritative.

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 Ask anything in my name and it will be given.

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 This is chapter 14.

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 And then, in verse 15,

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 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

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 This is us.

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 It sounds like obedience will just happen.

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 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

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 Obedience will just happen so long as we love God.

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 And I think we actually understand this connection pretty well.

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 And the connection is this.

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 Love has great implications for how we behave.

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 Love has great implications for how we behave.

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 Take a mundane example.

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 If you love a sports team,

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 West Ham United, for example,

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 what do you do?

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 I know very little about football,

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 so I love just picking a random team.

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 I know for some of you,

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 we'll make or break this.

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 But West Ham United, for example,

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 if you love them,

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 what will you do?

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 Well, you might say,

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 I love West Ham,

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 but I never watch a match.

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 I never talk about them.

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 I'm not getting a jersey,

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 nothing with a logo.

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 I don't read up on the latest news about the players.

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 No.

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 No, you don't do that.

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 If you love West Ham,

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 you make sure that match night is free.

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 You talk about the team the next morning at work.

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 You might wear something with the logo,

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 and you surely read the news about them.

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 If you love West Ham,

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 you will do these things.

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 Now, I often hear people say

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 that we use the word love casually.

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 Right?

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 I love pizza.

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 I love my children.

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 I love God.

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 How can we use the same word

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 for all of those things?

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 There's a difference here,

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 which I'll talk about,

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 but there's also an important commonality.

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 Love has great implications

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 for how we behave.

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 Love has great implications

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 for how we behave.

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 It's a natural connection, actually,

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 to love and to obey.

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 What is supernatural

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 is to love God.

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 The question is,

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 how do we love him?

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 How do we love him?

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 And that's what our passage is about.

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 It's about love,

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 and it tells us three things about it.

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 How we love God,

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 when we love God,

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 and the implications of this love.

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 How we love God,

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 when we love God,

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 and the implications of this love.

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 First, how do we love God?

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 We love God

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 by the power of the Holy Spirit,

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 given by the Father,

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 thanks to the Son.

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 Look at verse 15.

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 If you love me,

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 you will keep my commandments,

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 and I will ask the Father,

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 and he will give you another helper

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 to be with you forever.

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 The word here for helper

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 probably means something

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 just like that,

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 someone who helps,

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 a comforter,

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 someone who comes alongside

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 and supports.

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 In general,

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 it's an associate.

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 Now,

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 it can mean something

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 very particular.

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 It can mean a sort of

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 judicial advocate,

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 in that kind of sense,

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 and maybe there's an interesting

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 illusion there,

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 that the Spirit would advocate

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 on our behalf,

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 as in a court setting.

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 But more immediately,

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 the Spirit helps

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 with something else.

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 What does the Spirit

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 help with?

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 We're on verse 17 now.

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 Jesus calls this helper

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 the Spirit of Truth,

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 whom the world cannot receive

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 because it neither sees him

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 nor knows him.

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 You know him,

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 for he dwells with you

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 and will be in you.

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 All of this talk about

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 believing in Jesus,

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 about being reassured

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 when he departs,

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 about having an incredible

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 connection with God.

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 Jesus says,

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 I will be in my Father,

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 you will be in me.

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 We will be one.

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 All this talk about

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 asking for things

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 in Jesus' name

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 and receiving them,

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 all of this is thanks

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 to the Spirit of Truth.

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 That is how we love God,

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 by the power of the Spirit

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 given by the Father,

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 thanks to the Son.

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 The New Testament says

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 that everything about you

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 as a Christian

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 is new.

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 You have a new heart

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 to feel.

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 You have new eyes

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 to see.

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 New minds

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 to think.

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 In 1 Corinthians,

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 Paul says,

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 we have the mind

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 of Christ.

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 This is new life.

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 And this makes

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 the church the church.

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 The world does not

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 call God Father

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 or pray in Christ's name

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 or read the Bible

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 expecting to see

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 God himself

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 or know that this book

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 is the way that God

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 has spoken to me

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 and to us.

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 That's the Spirit's gift

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 of what we call

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 illumination.

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 That's how we know

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 the Bible is God's word.

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 It's a supernatural word

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 and a supernatural act

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 to recognize it.

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 for the same reason

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 the world does not

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 love God

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 because they have not

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 received His Spirit.

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 However,

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 if anyone is going

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 to love God

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 and anyone can

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 say that again,

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 if anyone is going

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 to love God

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 and anyone

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 can

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 love God,

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 then it's going

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 to be for the same

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 reason.

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 if you love God,

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 you have been given

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 the help

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 of the Holy Spirit.

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 God has regenerated

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 your heart

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 and given you

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 new life.

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 How's that

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 for help?

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 How do we love God?

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 By the power

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 of the Spirit

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 given by the Father

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 thanks to the Son.

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 When will we love God?

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 This is the second question.

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 When will we love God?

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 It's a bit of a strange

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 question.

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 It may sound strange,

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 but Jesus does make

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 a point of it.

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 We will love God

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 and particularly

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 increase our love

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 for God

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 when we see

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 the resurrected

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 Christ.

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 Verse 19,

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 Yet a little while

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 and the world

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 will see me

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 no more,

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 but you will see me.

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 Because I live,

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 you also will live.

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 In that day,

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 you will know

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 that I am in my Father

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 and you in me

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 and I in you.

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 In these lines,

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 I think Jesus is referring

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 about his resurrection

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 appearance.

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 I think he's referring

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 to his resurrection

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 appearance.

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 In that day,

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 I think that's

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 the particular day

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 for the disciples

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 that they're expecting

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 when they will know

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 that he is in my Father.

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 The general point

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 is that we love God

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 when we see Christ,

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 especially the Christ

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 of glory.

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 That's the general point.

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 When we see the Christ

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 of glory,

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 we will love God

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 and love him more.

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 It had a more

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 immediate meaning

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 for the disciples,

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 of course.

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 Jesus was physically

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 going to go away.

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 You will not see me.

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 You'll open your eyes.

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 I will not be around.

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 You'll come into my room.

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 I will not be there.

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 But then you will see me.

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 But for them

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 and for us,

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 a single principle holds.

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 And that single principle

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 is it is Christ first.

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 It is Christ first.

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 In the same way

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 that we love God

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 when we have the Holy Spirit,

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 so looking upon Christ

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 increases that love

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 for him.

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 I hope you're starting

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 to see that

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 everything about

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 if you love me,

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 you will keep my commandments

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 begins with God.

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 It begins with his love

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 for himself

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 within the persons

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 of the Trinity

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 and it begins

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 with his love

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 for us.

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 We love God

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 by the power

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 of the Holy Spirit.

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 We will love God

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 when we see

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 the glorified Christ.

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 We will love him more

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 when we look upon him.

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 Third,

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 what happens

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 with this love?

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 What are the implications

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 of this love?

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 Now,

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 we've got to look

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 around the chapter

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 a little bit

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 for this.

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 Verse 13.

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 When we love God,

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 God is glorified.

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 Whatever you ask

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 in my name,

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 this I will do

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 in order that

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 the Father may be glorified

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 in the Son.

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 When we ask for things

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 in Christ's name

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 for his sake,

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 because we love him

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 by the power

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 of the Holy Spirit,

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 then God gets glory.

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 hallowed be thy name

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 is what we pray.

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 That is what we pray for

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 and that is what we love for,

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 that God will be glorified.

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 Second,

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 verse 31.

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 When we love God,

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 the world will know more

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 about God's love.

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 Jesus says,

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 I do as the Father

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 has commanded me

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 so that the world

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 might know

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 that I love the Father.

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 Jesus' self-sacrifice

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 displays

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 in the greatest way

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 possible

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 that he loves the Father.

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 And that fact

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 cannot leave people

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 unaffected.

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 The presentation

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 of Christ's self-sacrifice

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 moves with power

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 into the world.

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 And our love for God

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 in the same way

00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:57.960
 adds fuel

00:18:57.960 --> 00:18:59.000
 to this fire.

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 Our response

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 to the crucified

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 and resurrected Christ

00:19:03.259 --> 00:19:04.759
 as fuel

00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:05.339
 to the fire

00:19:05.339 --> 00:19:06.339
 of God's love

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 so that the world

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 might know

00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:10.019
 about God's love.

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 Lastly,

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 verse 21.

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 He who loves me

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 will be loved

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 by my Father

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 and I will love him

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 and manifest myself

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 to him.

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 More love for God

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 means more love

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 from God.

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 And more love

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 from God

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 means more love

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 for God.

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 Now you may be

00:19:37.139 --> 00:19:38.039
 getting a little nervous,

00:19:38.139 --> 00:19:38.299
 right?

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 More love from God

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 as if we love God

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 more and he loves us,

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 he loves us more.

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 I don't think that's

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 exactly what's going on.

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 Perhaps it's something

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 about the manifestation

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 of God's love

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 appears more clearly

00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:50.099
 to us

00:19:50.099 --> 00:19:50.960
 when we love God.

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 But in either case,

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 the relationship

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 is reciprocal.

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 it's very clear

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 that God loves us

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 first.

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 But we increase

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 our love for God

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 and we know more

00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:02.000
 of God's love

00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:03.080
 through that same

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 process.

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 God is glorified

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 when we love him.

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 The world

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 will know more

00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:12.539
 about God's love

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 as we love him.

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 And our understanding

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 of God's love itself

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 will be increased

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 as we love him.

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 The greatest type

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 of love

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 is the love

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 that will die

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 for the beloved.

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 It says,

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 I will give up

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 my life

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 so that you

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 might have life.

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 This is where

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 the different types

00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:37.079
 of love

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 become important,

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 right?

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 Love for pizza,

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 for a football team,

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 for children,

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 and for God.

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 I was at a dinner

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 on Thursday night

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 with some teenage boys

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 and the boy

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 sitting across from me

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 was 17 years old.

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 We were talking

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 about how we get

00:20:55.919 --> 00:20:56.759
 teenage boys

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 to, you know,

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 attend little events,

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 get-togethers.

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 Let's have a movie night.

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 Why is no one

00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:03.819
 coming to the movie night?

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 Well, you need

00:21:04.939 --> 00:21:05.699
 some food there,

00:21:05.779 --> 00:21:06.000
 right?

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 And this is exactly

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 what this guy said.

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 I kid you not,

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 these are his exact words.

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 I'd do anything

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 for three hours

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 if there was pizza there.

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 I'd do anything

00:21:19.199 --> 00:21:19.939
 for three hours

00:21:19.939 --> 00:21:20.839
 if there was pizza there.

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 But we don't

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 die for pizza.

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 He might do anything

00:21:27.259 --> 00:21:27.879
 for three hours,

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 but we don't die

00:21:29.740 --> 00:21:30.099
 for pizza.

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 We don't die for dominoes

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 because we love pizza.

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 We don't give up

00:21:34.399 --> 00:21:35.099
 our own life

00:21:35.099 --> 00:21:35.619
 for the sake

00:21:35.619 --> 00:21:36.460
 of a football team.

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 But we would die

00:21:39.259 --> 00:21:39.899
 for the people

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 that we love.

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 And Jesus

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 dies for us

00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:46.099
 because the Father

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 loves us.

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 and told Jesus

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 this is what

00:21:51.259 --> 00:21:51.779
 we're going to do

00:21:51.779 --> 00:21:52.259
 for the world.

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 For God so loved

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 the world

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 that he gave

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 his only begotten son

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 that whosoever

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 believes in him

00:22:00.899 --> 00:22:02.539
 might have

00:22:02.539 --> 00:22:04.079
 everlasting life.

00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:07.519
 you might think

00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:08.359
 I can't love God.

00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:10.879
 Of course you can't.

00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:14.579
 But you tell God

00:22:14.579 --> 00:22:15.299
 you want to love him

00:22:15.299 --> 00:22:17.319
 and you ask him

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 for the help

00:22:17.619 --> 00:22:18.339
 of the Holy Spirit

00:22:18.339 --> 00:22:20.299
 since that's the only way

00:22:20.299 --> 00:22:21.019
 you can love him.

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 Let's pray.

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