New Command To Love

New Command To Love

Preacher Huijun - 20 November 2014

Repaying A Debt Of Love

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We often think it is hard to evangelise because we are inadequate in far too many areas. For example, we cannot talk as well as the preachers in the church, we are weak in faith and thus on what grounds we can tell others how strong Christ has been in our lives, and when we look at our actions, we find ourselves committing more mistakes in life than non-believers. Actually, evangelism starts from the right heart. The central of evangelism is a person, after receiving the love and grace of God, sees how much the others around her need this love and complete gospel of God too. The burden she has for others based on the truth she has heard and convicted of propels her to speak what God wants her to speak and testify what God wants her to testify in her current conditions. When one receives the conviction to evangelise, all her conditions are conditions God will use to manifest His glory, reaching out to the harassed and helpless people in the world who are chosen to respond to the love of God. Therefore, evangelism is not an enforced activity but natural product in children of God who strive to follow God in all their ways. With this, contrary to what people of the world think, all the time, effort and things she has sacrificed in evangelising will not feel like a loss but worthwhile devotion because she sees the overflowing love she receives from God gives rise to the need to repay the debt of love of God.

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Love is not a new topic for believers. Yet as we lead our lives, our definition of love, as God would have it, can be easily distorted, misunderstood, and instead of being a glorious tool for us to glorify God and love men, becomes experiences that is against our spirit. Let us reexamine what God means by His command to love.


Verses to Read: Jn 13:34-35, 1-5, 12-30


  • Command: “Love one another”
  • Promise: “Everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Our Flawed Love

  1. Love in our own capacity
  2. Our Perspectives
    1. Perspective of self
    2. Perspective of others

Love of Christ

  1. Humble Love
    – The humble love of Jesus will
    propel us to love more & beyond like Him.
  2. Love with a price
    – If we choose to love but are wronged in return, Jesus will look even more real and beautiful in our love.
  3. Love with Authority
    –  Jesus has the authority to command us not because He is God, but because He is Love.

How to Love One Another?

  1. Be loved by God first
    <1 Jn 4:19> We love because he
    first loved us.
    <1 Jn 4:11> Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
    <1 Jn 3:23> And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
  2.  Love like Jesus Christ (acts of love)
    – Give time
    – Guard our speech
  3. Intercession
    – Love purposefully, not blindly
    – Come out of the devil’s deceptions
    – Indeed loved by God in the process
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John is an ordained Deacon, who has been serving The Blessed Run Church. He is married to sister Rachel and they have two lovely sons, Noah and Jonah.

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