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.

Let me walk today in the miracle of self-forgetfulness so that I don't express myself to others

in such a way to get them to love me back. It's miracle. Got so much of our own need wrapped

up in our loving. Number one, we believe is love. Number two, we demonstrate the love.

Number three, we lay down our lives in the loving. Number four, this is sometimes the

harder of the two. We lay down their lives in the loving. We lay down their lives in the

loving. Now remember, the whole concept of this portion of John chapter 15 is we are then

to do what he has done. As he is loved, we are to love. Now I want you to see something

he describes here. I just found this. I'm going to take you into concept now. Not such

tied theology as much as I want you to see an example and let's learn something by concept.

Look with me in verse 13 and 16. We already saw greater love has no one than this and he lay

down his life for his friends. And then it says in verse 16, you did not choose me, but

I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. All right.

There back at verse 13, everybody looking at verse 13, you see that phrase lay down.

That's one Greek word. And that one Greek word to them, that one Greek, and I'm talking

about the lexical form of the word, is exactly the same word being translate there. And again,

I'm giving you the lexical form in verse 16. You did not choose me, but I chose you and

laid you down to go and bear fruit. Now it does mean if you said, is that what it means?

It means appointed. It means both of those things. But the translators very wisely knew

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