![]() ![]() How is it different? In the New Testament, the Lord’s commandments are not merely injunctions, requirements, and charges to us, but they are His words, which are spirit and life as a supply to us. The commandment that the Lord gave us in John 13:34 is the new commandment in the New Testament, which is different from the old commandments in the Old Testament. Then, He gave them a new commandment, that they love one another, even as He loved them by this shall all men know that they are the Lord’s disciples if they have love for one another (vv. 1), He charged them to do the same to one another in love (v. In John chapter 13, after the Lord Jesus washed His disciples’ feet to show them that He loved them to the uttermost (v. The Lord’s New Commandment that we Love one another Supplies us with Spirit and Life We need to help one another to enjoy the Lord more so that our love for Him and for one another would grow and be perfected. We cannot be individual believers by ourselves, having nothing to do with our fellow believers.Īs we are exiting this gloomy period of the pandemic, we may discover that our faith is weak, for we may not be so willing to be in person at the meetings of the church. We can’t say that we believe into the Lord but we don’t love the brothers we can’t say that we believe in Christ but we don’t want to be with the brothers and the sisters. The apostle John seemed to be testing the real believers when he said that, unless we love the brothers, we are not real believers.įaith is God infused into us to become our believing ability when we exercise our spirit of faith, we love the Lord and we love the brothers. If we are real believers, we love the brothers. We know that we passed out of death into life because we love the brothers (1 John 3:14). On one hand, Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us on the other hand, by faith in Him we receive His life, and by enjoying Christ in the divine dispensing, we love the Lord and the brothers. He loves us to the uttermost, and He carries out His consideration of each of us to reach us and dispense Himself into us. God doesn’t love us in a way that we think, that He feels so emotional about us and He would do everything for us to make us happy this is the natural, spoiled, fallen love of man. He loved us to the uttermost by coming to us in His humanity, laying aside His splendour and condescending to the extent that He was at our dirty feet, and He washed them.Īs we come to Him day by day, He keeps washing us He washes us with His blood from any sin that His light exposes and we confess, and He washes us with His life, His Spirit, and His living word from any defilement of the world. On His side, the Lord loved us so much that He gave Himself up for us He came to us in love, He died for us, and He is washing our feet continually as we come to Him to contact Him. The most excellent way for us to take in the church life for the building up of the Body is love we need to love one another and love the Lord. Love is the most excellent way to be anything or do anything for the organic building up of the church as the Body of Christ. This week in our morning revival we come to the topic of, The Lord’s New Commandment Given to Us – that we Love one another. After the Lord Jesus washed His disciples’ feet in John 13, He gave them a new commandment, which is to love one another even as He loved them real love is the issue of enjoying Christ in the divine dispensing. ![]()
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