How do you release heaven's blessing by loving,

sacrifices, unselfishly, humbly, without any thought of personal gain,

personal fulfillment, personal satisfaction, but completely committed to the sheer well-being,

joy, satisfaction, fulfillment, and necessity of somebody else. I. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. What does it mean when

scripture tells you to love one another? That you help your wife clean up a

messy house or that you let the other car take the parking spot even though you were there

first or that you take your kids to the park even when you have a lot of work to do.

Those acts of service are all wonderful, but the question is, how do those commonplace examples

of showing preference for others match up with the radical love the Bible describes?

The bottom line, are you fully reflecting the love of Christ in those acts of service?

Well, those questions are at the heart of John MacArthur's message today.

Part of a compelling study called Love No Matter What.

And here's John with the lesson.

I want you to turn to John Chapter 13 and we're going to look at the opening verses of this chapter.

John 13, we call it the humility of love, and that is exactly what it is about.

We're on Thursday night... and that is exactly what it is about.

We're on Thursday night of his final week

before his death and resurrection.

He will be arrested early in the morning,

really in the darkness of the middle of the night. He will

undergo a false trial in the wee hours of Friday. He will be executed on Friday. He will

die as the true Lamb of God, the Passover Lamb. This is Thursday night the night before.

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