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A New Commandment (Series – 2)

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.” John 13:34. This command from God has often been misunderstood. Some say that this is not a new command at all and that Jesus got it wrong. But if you read it carefully you will note that Jesus added “just as I have loved you“. In other words – the love of Jesus is the love that we are to emulate in every way, as a command and not just a good idea, or something to aim for. So to know what loving means then we need to study the life of Jesus Christ, and that is WHY we need to study the life of Jesus. That’s why reading the New Testament (especially the gospels) is so important. Jesus’ life was a living breathing personification of what it means to love one another. Everything that he did and said, every interaction that he had, was driven by perfect love, and Jesus modelled this love for us. His supreme act of love is recorded in 1 John…
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1 John 4:9-10