Okay, this is Beth. Listen, what we live for at Living Proof is to serve people the Word

of God. We base our ministry on Hebrews 412 that tells us that the Word is alive and

active. We pray this message is going to serve you in some way today and that God is

going to speak through it. Thank you so much for giving us this privilege.

Look with me. John chapter 15, I want to read familiar verses 12 through 17. My command is this,

love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this than he laid down his life

for his friends. Now you'll recall with me last week's lesson, we looked at it from the perspective

of friendship with Christ. This week I promised you we would look at it from the perspective of love,

of how we live this thing out. Verse 14, you are my friends. If you do what I command, I no longer

call you servants because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called

you friends for everything that I learned from my father. I have made known to you. You did not

choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit. Fruit that will last,

then the father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Verse 17, he puts the letter book in

on it. This is my command, love each other. A few days ago, I opened up the front page of the

Houston Chronicle and on the bottom of it it says this, dietary advice at a glance, our do's and

our don'ts. And then it had a nice bowl of letters because I was going to see it's a new year,

all of us are concerned about maybe this is when we're going to really think this through, do

something a little bit different in our diet. So I begin to glance at it and what it says and a nice

bowl thought is exercise and load up on veggies. Well, I yawned and I folded it up and I put it

down. You know why? Because there was nothing new. It bugs me that health advice is the same as

it's always been. We're going to have to exercise and we're going to have to load up on some of our

veggies. How boring we've heard that. That's why we like new diets because we want new advice

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