Hold up your hand if you didn't bring a Bible. The ushers have extra, they'll be glad to let you use one.

And let's turn to a couple of openings. Let's go to John, the 13th chapter, and then we'll be going over to 1st John.

John 13 and 34

Jesus gave us

the New Testament

commandment

I don't know of anything more important

than this in the whole word of God

Jesus said

John 1334 he said a new commandment I give unto you that you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

He tells us to love one another. He tells us who

to love. He's talking about each other

your fellow Christian. Doesn't mean

you can't love people on the outside, but

the New Testament command is specifically

for you and I to love each other.

And

to love each other a certain way as he has loved us.

So we'd have to find that out how he has and does love us, wouldn't we,

in order to love each other the same way.

And the good news is that if you've been born again,

that very same love that he loved us with is in us. That's the part of being born again. Romans 5 says the love of God has

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