Love is not some kind of emotional impulse.

It's not some kind of feeling.

It's not some kind of earthly attraction.

Love is simply meeting someone's need to the point of self-sacrifice.

It is humiliating oneself for an expression that meets a need.

Welcome to Grace to You, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

At the height of their popularity, the Beatles headlined the first ever live international satellite broadcast.

It was a television show called Our World.

The show's producers asked John Lennon to write a song that could be understood in any culture.

All you need is love was the result.

And as the Beatles manager said, the song can't be misinterpreted. It's a clear message saying that love is everything. Well, discussions about love certainly permeate our culture,

and as you'll hear today, there is a lot of misinterpretation of what genuine love is and how to

practice it, to clear up the confusion, follow along as

John MacArthur continues his current series, The Pillars of Christian Character. And with today's

lesson, here's John. Let's go to John 13. And this is one of those great passages. It is a profound insight into this most needful

of spiritual motives, love, this most essential of spiritual attitudes which our Lord addresses

here. Let's start in verse one. Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing

that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this

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

or to the limit, to the max, to perfection.

Jesus is on the edge right now of a very, very terrible experience.

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