John 15:12–17

hey hey welcome to coffee and devotions this friday morning this where every weekday morning at 9 00 a.m and on the weekends when i get a spare moment from these guys you and i we get together we get into god's word and we grow in our love for the lord together and this year 2020 we'll make it through all the gospels well this morning we're at john chapter 15 verses 12 through 17. why don't we go ahead and have some coffee pray and get into god's word you guys want some tea before we start all right let's go ahead and have some coffee or tea oh your hair was in my face all right why don't we go ahead and start the reading at verse nine debra can you put your cup down and we'll we'll read together we'll just do verse by verse so deborah you'll do verse nine i'll do verse 10 nathan will do verse 11 and then we'll go back around until we get to 17. okay deborah verse nine yep go ahead as the father loved me i also have loved you abide in my love if you keep my commandments you will abide in my love just as i have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love these things i have spoken to you you may my that my joy may remain in you and that your joy may be full deborah can you read verse 12 this is my commandment that you love one another as i have loved you verse 13 greater love is no one than this than to lay down one's life for his friends nathan you are my friends if you do whatever i command you deborah verse 15 no longer i do i call you servants for a servant does not know what his master is doing but i've called you friends for all the things i heard from my father i have made known to you you did not choose me but i chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain that whatever you ask the father in my name he will give you these things recommend you that you love one another okay we need to ask ourselves first a what is this about b what is the best version and c what are we called to do in response to these words so what do you guys think this is about um jesus picks his death disciples okay so you think that this is jesus picking his disciples good what about you deborah what do you think this is about um jesus says that i've loved you so abide in my love okay good so jesus has loved them and they should abide in his love daniel what do you think this was about you too busy drinking your tea yeah that's what i thought okay well what is this about i think this is about what i think deborah and nathan are both on track right jesus loves his disciples and jesus wants them to love as he has loved has jesus washed the feet of his disciples yes yeah is jesus sending them the holy spirit yeah and jesus wants them to keep his commandments isn't this a beautiful passage that jesus says abide in my love and then he tells them if they keep his commandments and abide in his love and he says all these things that my joy may remain in you and that your joy may be full so what is this about this is about god giving us joy in jesus christ and us abiding in the love of jesus christ as we follow after him as we walk after him as we love as he loved and jesus how is jesus going to show the ultimate love what does he say in verse uh let's see he says it in verse 14 nope sorry verse 13. how is jesus going to show down his show his love deborah what's the verse 13. lay down his life for his friends yeah to lay down his life for his friends was jesus gonna do that yeah jesus was gonna do that what do you guys think is the best verse to summarize this you think verse 13 okay yeah i think that's a good one too i might underline that um i might also say verse nine abide in my or as the father loved me i also have loved you abide in my love we might underline either of those well lastly what do we need to ask ourselves we've done a we've done b what's the last thing calling what what do you think you should do in response to this what do you guys think um we should just love like this cause jesus loved us all right we should love others as jesus loved us what do you think how what does that look like in your life but what does loving look like okay so what should you do what's that be kind good what does loving some people look like to you debra to not be selfish oh good to not be selfish good dan dan what does loving look like for you uh [Music] oh good to not be fighting great what what does it look like in your life to love others as jesus loves are you willing to put aside your preferences and your desires and to serve others well why don't we go ahead and close in prayer let's pray guys lord we thank you so much for this day and we pray that you might let us love as jesus loved please father let us abide in jesus that we could do these good works that we might keep his commandment in jesus name we pray amen can you guys all say goodbye bye bye bye