Glorious Love

Transcript

All right. Well, if you would turn with me this morning to the Gospel according to John, chapter 13. The Gospel of John, chapter 13.

And when you found John 13, that great passage here that begins a series of chapters of Jesus speaking his last words to his disciples, when you found John 13:31, go ahead and stand with me for our Gospel reading this morning.

Remember, this is at the Last Supper. Even though John has a unique way of sharing the events of that night. This is at the Last Supper. And notice when Judas had gone out, Jesus said, now the Son of man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once.

Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me. And as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, where I am going, you cannot come. I give you a new commandment that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

And by this, everyone will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.

Lord, thank you for your holy word and your word that is for us and to us this morning. And so we pray, oh, God, that you would send your Holy Spirit to us, to quicken us, to make us alive, to give us eyes to see and ears to hear, so that we can obey you as you have commanded us to love one another. We pray in your name. Amen. And you can be seated.

Well, there's nothing really new about today's text that I know of. You know, it's one of those things. Sometimes you come to a text and you know automatically that, hey, this is some new material. Like, I don't know that most people would be familiar with that. But not today, necessarily.

I don't know of anybody in this room that has not heard that Christians are to love one another. Now, hearing it and doing it seems to be our issue. Right. That's a good place to say amen. By the way, I don't often ask for amens.

I was at a conference yesterday where they. Where, you know, people ask for amens and they liked them. And, you know, I like that every once in a while, you know, that's cool. So when I ask for one, it's like, yeah, let's give it. Because that's true.

And amen, you remember, just remains like, I agree with that. Right. And the problem in Christianity is, again, not one of knowledge, but of doing or action. That's where we often find in ourselves the hypocrisy or the double face, which is really what a hypocrite means, is two faced. You have one face here and another there.

You hear it and you say yes and you nod your head yes. Right on. Yeah. Love one another. That sounds great.

I would love it if everybody loved one another. Well, what about you, though? What about me? Where is it that we can actually point to to show that we have love one for another? Now, before we get to that point, Jesus does say really kind of three total things here.

Best I can read in these very short text this morning. And the first is this, that the Son of God, Son of man, sorry, is going to be glorified. And by him being glorified, God is going to be glorified. And in fact the Father is going to glorify him through himself. Which again, kind of sounds very trinitarian, doesn't it?

And it does because it is. And that's why we must be replete in our understanding of God as three persons with one God, one God in three persons. And there is a mutual, if you will, reciprocal glorification here that's happening as Jesus submits himself to the will of the Father that glorifies God. And in fact, the glory of God is most clearly seen in what Jesus is about to do. Remember, this is the last night with his disciples.

In fact, before he goes to the cross, before he is betrayed, before he is whipped and spat upon and slapped, before he suffers, this is the beginning. Jesus says, as soon as Judas walks out the door, Jesus says, now it is beginning. Now the Son of Man will be glorified. That term, glory, you know, glory. We probably have various images that come to mind when we say that term, glory.

One of which should be some sort of brilliance, right? We think of something being glorious and we see a lot of light. In other words, you wouldn't go, as I did one time to that cave and I don't know where it is, somewhere in north Alabama. And you go way down into it and they turn off the lights. It's total darkness.

You know, there's really nothing glorious about that. I would not have come out of that experience. You know what? That total darkness where you can't even see your hand in front of your face, that was glorious. No, no, no, no, no, no.

But that sunrise at the Grand Canyon that I went to while everybody else was sleeping, that was glorious. Let me tell you. That was a. That's what we could call a glorious morning, right? Because it has to do with light and brilliance.

Something that directs our attention up to clarity. Well, yeah, that's sort of what we're talking about here. Biblically, the word actually has to do with weight. The weight of glory. That's actually the Hebrew connotation.

One of the Hebrew connotations here is actually a weightiness. In other words, what I saw that morning, man, that sat on me, it moved me. Have you ever been somewhere, perhaps a very large waterfall? Niagara Falls was one of these places where it's just like. There's not much to say.

It was pretty glorious, really. To see this thing, it's like in person. I've seen it in pictures, but to see it in person, you know, the Parthenon, another place where I'd seen it on all kinds of things. But to see it in person, wow, man, that was glorious, right? When we catch a glimpse of God, it is going to always be glorious.

So that we know we're not looking at God when we are not directed up in some weighty sort of clear way to God. I mean, this. If we're just bored to death, you're not dealing with God there. Something's wrong when we deal with God, when we even catch a glimpse of him, perhaps in worship or in a moment of prayer, or somebody praying over you, and you're just flooded with this weight of a presence. That's the glory of God.

And it's what we all want. We want to see as maybe a. It's a medieval term that really became important, beatitude, God as pure happiness, pure felicity, the highest good, the highest happiness that we are meant to enjoy, right? As one of the catechisms says, as we are to enjoy God forever. Right?

And so what Jesus is doing here, I think, is saying, listen, my glory, though, is not going and watching a sunset as beautiful as that is. You know where my glory is most seen is in the stripes that I'm going to have for you that heal you. As Isaiah predicted, the kind of glory that I want you to really focus on, that it glorifies God is suffering for the sake of the Father, not my will, but thine, that glorifies God. So we often think of pomp, but before the pomp, before resurrection, there has to be a death. And of course, for us, what that looks like is the ego must die.

It's what Dietrich Bonhoeffer said.

When the Lord bids a person come and follow me, he bids them to come and die. Because before we can resurrect to new life, we must put the deeds of the body, or the sinful nature to death.

We must be, as Paul said, crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. You see, there is no shared glory, shared nature with God, unless we die to ourselves. And this is why he says to us, you must take up your cross daily. You see, the cross becomes the focal point for Christianity because this is where Jesus himself, right here on the last night, says, now I will be glorified.

Not in those miracles where people were like, ooh, ah. But rather when they could say nothing because they thought all hope was lost. He says, that's when I'm glorified, is when I'm on the cross and they've done all of what they've done to me. And you know what words come out of his mouth, his dying last words? Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

That is glory, Jesus says, which means some of us who are called to certain types of suffering are called to glorify God in those sufferings. Not to suffer stupidly in the sense that it leads to nothing, but rather suffer on purpose with the Master.

He's called you to walk with him. And even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, he is with us. And he, God, who is immutable, unchangeable, because he takes on a human nature. Remember, two natures, one person, two natures, human nature, divine nature, one in Christ. Because of that, Jesus, Jesus is emotional.

God is emotional. He has the emotions. He weeps, for instance, he cries. And on the cross we hear him say and identify with many of us when he says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? We've all felt forsaken.

The human nature feels forsaken. But you know that he's quoting from Psalm 22, which ends in glory, actually. So even though we have this and he identifies with us, he never loses sight of the Father and his will and what this will accomplish, which even today is a sign of salvation, a sign of self giving love, a sign of sacrificial love. Have you ever noticed that, that the movies that move us the most, I mean, those ones that you're even trying not to tear up on because you don't want your kids to see you crying? Perhaps me, but you do.

And you're like, oh, I'm such a moving. What is it? Sacrificial love. A hundred percent of the time it's sacrificial self sacrificing self giving love. Never.

Someone who gains the whole world and says, look what I did, I was successful. But rather gives of themselves in sacrificial ways that mimic or image Christ. When you think about all the great movies, right, I don't want to list any, because you might not find them great when I do, you know, but there's some sort of sacrifice there, and that's what moves us, and it moves us to love. In fact, love is infectious like that. And here's what Paul will say in Second Corinthians 3:18.

And we all, with unveiled faces beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into. Into the same image from one degree of glory to another.

For this comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. So in other words, the Holy Spirit comes to move us from one glory to another, so that when we get a vision of God and he's working something in us, and then that is actually becomes habit for us or virtue for us. Now we believe, now we love, then he's on to the next one. What about hope?

We move from glory to glory until we see him face to face. The Beatitude himself, happiness Himself, goodness himself. And of course, the next thing that Jesus does. Here, little children. I'm going where you can't go.

Yeah. What does he mean by this? He's the pioneer. No one can do what he's about to do because he's mediating between God and man in his own person. And the way he does this is through his two natures, the divine nature and the human nature, so that the human nature now is joined to the Divine inextricably and forever.

Which means there's a human in heaven. There's a human at the very heart of the Holy Trinity, who is Father, Son, and Spirit. The Spirit did not become man. The Father did not take on emotions like Jesus did, but it glorified the Father that the Son did. And now the Son draws us all to himself into the very life of God.

You see, that's why our typical evangelical sort of gospel is so deficient. To think we're just forgiven. You know, what is a Christian? Oh, it's just a sinner that's forgiven. God help us.

No, he's wanting to draw us into his very life to share in his glory. In other words, he's not a God. That's just. Yes, I'm glory and y' all are all just garbage. No, he wants to share everything with us.

And you know what? On the cross, how much did he give? A quarter? Half? 3, 4?

99%? No, he gave all.

And in return, we give not a half, not a quarter, not three fourths. But we give all, because that's what love does. That's what love wants.

Well, notice Jesus here gives. And we celebrate this specifically on Maundy Thursday, which that term, Maundy, means mandate, right? Mandate Thursday, which he gives a new mandate here because it's coming from the word of God himself. It's already in the Old Testament to love God and to love your neighbor, we know that. But now it's coming from Jesus, who is both God and man and one person.

It's coming from his very lips. And so he says, I'm giving you the beginning of the church, the disciples, the 12 apostles here, minus one, now that one has left. He says, I'm giving you a new commandment, and that is to love one another. Now, notice that this is not a suggestion. This is not a new suggestion from Jesus.

Hey, you should love one another. And you're like, oh, yeah, you know, that, that is. That probably would make the most sense. But rather he phrases it in the strongest terminology possible. I command you to love one another.

And by doing that, you'll show the whole world what Christians are like.

It's not a suggestion, but a command. And we find in the Old Testament, 613 commands, there's quite a few of them. And the Pharisees, you'll remember, prided themselves on the fact that they actually checked off all 613. They checked them all off. And some of us, like, like some of us wish that was Christianity.

We wish. You wish that instead of doing what we do, which is more mystical and relational and habitual, each week, each day, you wish. I get it. Especially some of us, more analytical, engineer minded, it's like, just give me the list, man. I'll check it off, we'll be done.

Yeah, Anybody. You like that? But have you noticed that your spouse doesn't work like that, do they? Your kids don't work like that, do they? Why?

Because persons are never static.

Never. If you don't see me for 10 years and you see me again, I'm not the same person you saw 10 years ago, and nor are you. We can't stop this growth, this growth or decline of the human person toward the glory of God. And so the Pharisees, they were able to do all of the behavioral checklist that the Old Testament gives, but they missed what undergirds the law, which is love, which you can do all the things, but if you don't love. What does Paul say in First Corinthians 13?

It's nothing. He doesn't even say, you know, that's actually pretty good to be a good person according to behavioral law. Like, that's actually good. And some of us pat ourselves if we're honest on the back to say, you know what? Look at those people on the news, man.

What a bunch of idiots. Like, I would never do something like that. Therefore I am good and I'm okay. Because you know what? Doing a lot better than those who are sitting in the prison.

But if we don't love, it means nothing. Not even a little bit, nothing. We're a clanging symbol because love is what our behavior should be expressed from. And yeah, sometimes, of course, we want to behave correctly. But if we hate the lawgiver, then you never make it to heaven because guess who's in heaven?

The Lawgiver. In the freedom of the spirit, there is no law for love and good works because the possibilities are endless.

Well, Jesus. Well, sorry, in the Old Testament we get 10. So you get 613 down to 10, it's like, all right, then these 10. Focus on these. And these are eternal.

Like, in other words, a lot of the 613, some of those are religious that fall off, such as animal sacrifice, which is so good, you know, because some of you be highly offended if we sacrificed animals in here. Okay.

Some of them were civil laws that dealt with oxen. Right. You seen one of those going down the street recently? Probably not. Okay, so a lot of the 613, but the Ten Commandments, they don't fall off.

They are eternal and they are for us to obey. And of course, as you know, some deal primarily with our relationship with God, others primarily with our relationship with the other people. Okay. Which means that's why Jesus, when asked, actually boils it down even further. 613 to 10 to now, what's the greatest commandment?

To love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. In other words, Jesus says, you know, here's the greatest one, but the greatest one is also kind of a double step, a two step, if you will. Because you can't love God if you don't love others.

And in fact, James, the one who sort of gives us a nice swift punch often he will say, how can you love, how can you not love your brother who you've. Who you've seen? But then say you love God who you've not seen.

In other words, it's impossible to love God if you don't love others, just as it's impossible to have to have forgiveness if you don't forgive others.

Now, English is, has been said to be like, it's a good language for the most part. And a lot of times we don't even have to talk about the Greek. But with love, we do, don't we? Because our one definition of love encapsulates a lot, when in fact the Greek definition, there were more than four, but primarily three in the New Testament that are going to be vital for us to understand. And many people have said these before.

As I said, nothing here is new. But just allow me to remind you of the three here, one is Eros. You know, this is where we get erotic love from. Typically understood to be sexual love. Eros is, is the idea that I want you.

I want to possess you in some way exclusively. And of course, when I met Jessica, this is exactly what I wanted to do. I felt Eros very strongly in my life, which is why I put a ring on it. And we just. We're about to celebrate 21 years of erotic love, if you could put it that way, right?

That's been quite fruitful for us and we've enjoyed it.

I mean, the kids part. Guys, come on.

We all know what Eros is. And we also all know when it's gone wrong. And it's painful, when it goes wrong, when it's been abused, when we've made it something simple, when it's not.

Eros is actually protected in the Bible for marriage alone.

Now, the second word is phileo or philei, which is. Which is brotherly love, right? Friendship. Okay, so this one is not I want to possess my friend in some way as exclusively, but rather I want to spend time with them. Of course, you can't spend your time with a thousand people.

So you have to make decisions on who's going to be your friend. And we all should make those decisions. You can't be friends with everybody. That's just a point blank of life. Not even Jesus, right?

He didn't call 14,000 disciples, he called 12. And even within that 12, he had three. And even within that three, he. He had one that was his best friend, who is John, the writer of today's text. And so phileo has to do with friendship and man, the need for friendship.

Today we need friends. Like we need to recover friendship. Like that's, that's a whole nother sermon I can't even get into. But then that final word, and you know it, is agape, right? In his verbal form, agapao.

So agape is maybe best summarized by Thomas Aquinas, who Says it's to will the good of the other. Notice. Not to possess. Because that can be selfish, you know, like Jessica and I can be selfish about who we give ourselves to. Like you're not going over there, you know, you're not doing that.

Like we're not going to talk to that person. Okay, you need to cut that relationship. And it's like, okay, yeah, definitely, because I want you and you, she wants me, which is a great thing. But it can become a selfish sort of love. All right, well, same thing with friendship, right?

We enjoy spending time with our friend. Like it's something I like to do, you know, it's not something I have to do. I want to do that.

But agape is not based on feelings or even on what we get from is simply put to will the good of the other as other just for the sake that they're another human being.

It's the broadest, most all encompassing understanding of love. And it shook the ancient world. No one had ever seen or heard about that kind of love. And we see it in our text from, from Peter, where, where immediately don't think of them and us, but of us.

Yes, to will the good of the other is to be self giving toward another person.

And this is the kind of love that God has. Of course, this is why we say agape is God's kind of love. And in fact, none of us can love like God without God. That is to say, if he has not shed abroad in our hearts the love of God by the Holy Spirit, then we won't practice agape love. It won't happen.

But if he has given you his spirit, then you have found yourself at times in places where you did not think you could love and you chose to love and you didn't think you would be able to forgive and you forgave. You didn't think you could be patient with that person, but you found patience. Because it wasn't just you working in there, it was God's spirit as well. That's what it means to walk in love. It's his love.

It's a shared love just as much as it's a shared love holiness.

But it takes in order to will the good of the other. It takes not my will, but thine. It's a death, just as Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane. Lord, take this cup from me, but not my will, but thine. That is the beginning of agape love.

That's the kind of love that will change the world. Even hardened Rome was changed because the early Christians received this agape love and disseminated it out to those who didn't deserve it. It's one thing to love those who deserve it. It's a whole nother ball game that witnesses to the sort of glory that Jesus is talking about here, when we love those who don't deserve it.

And this is the hard part, is we can hear this and it makes sense to us. And of course it does, because it's true and it's right. But it's got to be lived out somewhere. This is where I want to come down with this. It's going to be a hard pill for all of us to swallow, but we must order love in our life.

Just to simply say that you love everybody doesn't mean a whole lot, because unless you actually love these people, maybe the people beside you, maybe it's the people in this room, maybe it's the people at work or in your family that's hard to love.

Brothers and sisters, unless we actually love one another, we aren't his disciples if we don't.

Now, look, we can. We can, you know, watch the news and we see people hurting, and in some sense, you know, we were never really ever designed to know everything that was going on in the world. You ever stop and just thought about that? Like, you literally live your life online just worrying about the problems of the world. Couldn't you?

I mean, every day I turn on my phone, you know, I'm like, wow, that's awful. That's terrible. And our bleeding hearts, and we just. It goes out. I mean, but at some point, we're almost numb to it.

And, you know, what if we only think these things and we only feel these things? That is not enough. We have to love the people in front of us. Have you ever just considered and, like, looked at the person who God has given to you, maybe to work with, or your parents, even if they're difficult, or your spouse or your children, or the people in this very room, like this community Harvest Point.

Do you love one another? And, like, if so, then where is it? Because love, the kind of love that he shows us is seen. It's action. It's not thought.

It's not just hearing, it's doing.

You know, if there's a. There's a philosophical sort of conundrum that's often offered that's, I think, helpful here. If all of our kids went swimming, all right, in the ocean, let's say, and they all were drowning at the same time because of some riptide or whatever, who do you go save? You say, well, I go save all of them. Well, that's a nice thought, isn't it?

But you know what? You can't do that. So who you going to save? Perhaps the closest one to the shore. Maybe.

But here's the order of love. If you don't go after your kid, no one else will.

Because everybody in this room, if we're all parents and our kids out there drowning, we're going for them. And that's rightly ordered.

Now, once I rescue my kid, I'm back out there, right? Of course, the point is this. God has given you some people, just like Jesus chose. I'm choosing you. Like you choose to do life with the.

These people. You chose to work there. You chose to have kids, then love one another. Don't be loving these. This is the epitome of what I think people leave the church over is you're one way, one place and another, another place.

And your kids see it, they pick up on it. Dad acted like this in public, but in private, he didn't actually care. That's a dangerous, dangerous thing.

You see, my point is this. God has already given you people to love.

Are you loving them? You say, yeah, but I need to love those people. They're like, I get it. But he's given the people to you.

You know, John Wesley used to have this, like, thing he called love feast. Can we pull that up? Jackson, you ever heard of this? Like, you actually had to have a ticket to get in.

Good. Other one. Yep. This was. This was a ticket to get into the love feast.

Now, of course, the love feast goes all the way back to the early church where they had love feasts, which is Holy Communion. They gather around the table. It was literally the way we worship even to this day. Right. Is the table is center.

Okay. But in early Methodism, one of the ways you had to be accountable to a small group of people, and if you didn't actually love them and check in on them, you weren't allowed to. The more public worship. Holy communion. In other words, not today, not this quarter.

And it was actually quarterly given out. So it was like, yeah, not this whole quarter. You won't be able to partake of the Lord's Supper. Now, you can come to church and stuff like that, but you. At the point of the supper, you can't come in.

Everybody's got to go out that doesn't have a ticket. You say, dang, that's pretty. It's pretty exclusive. Yeah, it might be. But his point Was this.

You say you love everybody, but show me in this group, what's your group? Who's your 12? Let's just start there. Let's not try to save the whole world, because that's Jesus business, but let's save our little world around us and make it a better place, you know, I tried to think of, like, illustrations to move us to love, and I just. I'm not good at it at all.

But one of them that moves me every single year when it comes up is my lowest day. And it's coming up soon, actually. First of June. I'll be at youth camp this time, which would be great, but it was my lowest day. And on that lowest day, man, I had someone.

You know, there was a lot of things that happened, okay, we can't get into them, and some of it's very, very private. But I felt like people have betrayed me, you know, and when I hear Jesus getting betrayed, the scripture specifically acts like betrayal is a big deal. And if you've ever been betrayed, it is a big deal. I never thought it would be a big deal because, you know, like, seem like a tough guy right now when it comes to betrayal, man. Like, you put your trust in somebody that you thought was.

Had your goodwill in mind, and then they don't.

I felt betrayed. And I got home, and I didn't feel like I could even go home and get out of my truck. So I started to leave, and three men in this church just happened to show up at that very moment. And they actually just pulled me out of the truck and held me as I. As I wept and thought my whole world was over, really.

And then my wife, you know, stood. Stood beside me in, like. The way I look at it is I had been shot, so to speak, you know, with a hard time. And I was on the ground, and she's, like, standing there over me with a shotgun, like, come and get him. I dare you.

You know, that's the image I kind of have in my mind of how she stood watch over me, even though I certainly don't deserve it. And I probably deserve betrayal, you know, to be honest with you. I mean, I'm not the sharpest tool in God's drawer, for sure, but they were there, man. And, you know, loving one another sometimes just means, like, being there. It just means showing up.

And, like, there's some really simple ways to do it, like just coming to worship consistently, like, that's an easy one seems. But it seems to be getting more difficult, not only here at Harvest Point, but Around America. And it really shouldn't be. I'll just be honest. It really shouldn't be.

That's an easy thing to do, is show up for one another.

Because I'm going to tell you, when there's hardly anybody in here, it's not as encouraging as when there's a lot of people in here that you know, and we need to hold one another accountable to these things. You know, we're not going to a ticket system.

Sounds too complicated to me.

But I'll tell you what we need. A vision of God that then compels us to commit ourselves one to another. Even when it's hard. Maybe especially when it's hard.

So who do you love? Like, where's your love ordered? How is it ordered? These are things that. That only you can answer.

I don't know. I can't see your heart. But God can. And it really matters. It really does.

And Jesus says, listen, they'll know you are mine. They'll know you're my disciples. If you have love for one another, what does that look like for you? Like, what's your. You can't save the whole world.

So let's. Let's get real specific with God and be like, lord, who am I called to love? And a good place to start is just the people who are in the room. You know, be real honest with the people in the room.

So, Father, not my will, but thine. Thank you, Lord, for the people in my life who have just been there. They just show up over and over again for me, and I don't deserve it at all.

And Lord, I have totally botched loving one another so many times. And even recently, my love has grown cold. Help. Oh, God, help. Let us see a vision of you that draws us to love one another.

Show us what that means in ways that change these little kids that were right in front of us, Lord, that change teenagers who are being bombarded by all kinds of voices, all kinds of images of what they should or shouldn't be doing. Lord, information overload. Would you help us adults in the room clarify for them?

And Lord, I love my people at Madison Village. And even at that conference yesterday, there's just some older folks there that what they called are in the sunset of their life. Lord, we need those people. It's good for us all to be in the same room rather than bifurcating into this group and that group. Lord, there's something beautiful about your body.

Just as the psalm said, old and young across the nations. There is no this, them and us. It's us. Lord, you draw all humanity to yourself.

But instead of us being some kind of impossible citizen of the world, let us be grounded where you've placed us and pour out our lives to those you've put right in front of us. Lord, let us not avoid them or keep driving, but rather, look them in the eyes. Look them in the face. There's something about the face, that of a person, that just centers us on who they are.

Lord, let us not dart our eyes a different direction from those who need your love right in front of us. Teach us what that means. Call us even now in a moment like this, where we're just. We're just trying to listen to you make this a house of prayer. Lord, you've already convicted my heart of not loving one another somehow.

We get so busy. I get so busy, and we're doing your just. I mean, this is what happened to the Pharisees, is they got so busy keeping your law that they missed what is the foundation of the law, which is love. Lord, forgive us. Where we failed you, there's people that are hurting right here in this room like I was.

And you sent some precious friends and my wife, literally the whole panoply of the love words we talked about today.

And you sent your love into my heart, and that was by the Holy Spirit, something man cannot do. Lord, let us spend ourselves on you, because you gave all.

I wonder if you would just be honest with the Lord for just a second.

And if you feel like. If you feel deficient as I do with loving my kids, as I'm sending one off, I see all my deficiencies.

Or maybe it's your spouse. You actually have not willed their good in your life. You put on a show. God help us.

Maybe it's your neighbor, perhaps literal neighbor, I don't know.

Co worker.

You started out well, as Paul says in one of his letters, but now what's happened? You lost love. Lose love. We lose everything. Lord, help us regain your love.

We need your agape love.

Holy Spirit, move among us.

Baptize us as Peter. Peter knows. Wow. They got baptized by the Holy Spirit. Yes, yes.

May. May we be identified, Lord, as baptized Christians for sure, but also baptized in your Holy Spirit and love. We pray in your name. Amen. Let's all stand.

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