The Fruit of the Spirit: Love One Another - Audio
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say if you participate, so it's always a joy to share with you guys whenever Tom asks. But first, before I start, many of you know my brother Steve Grimm, he comes out about every month, he lives in Oklahoma, and I told him because they watch this live stream every week, and whenever they see Randy on stage, there's cousin Randy, and so I told him, "Cainan, if you're watching, I'd give you a shout out. Thank you for watching from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and it's fun to have him livestreaming." So how many of you are Stony Brook kids? One, two, three, all right, I have my first questions for you guys. Tom wanted me to talk on love because he's going through the fruit of the spirit, so he just gave me the big one, and I'll let him. I'm kind of going to talk about love. I'm really going to talk about our theme verse at Stony Brook this year, and for those of you that don't know, I'm a long-term time member at Coast Bible Church, but I also happen to be the principal at Stony Brook Christian School, so I kind of wear multiple hats. People tease me that I live here, and it's almost true. But we have a theme, we have a theme verse every year, and our theme verse this year happens to be who wants the first Snickers? What's our... You got to come up and say it though. Oh, shoot, it's on the screen. All right. What's our theme verse this year? Oh, you can look. Cheese, okay. Alice, what's our theme verse this year? Okay, good. Thanks for being there for me. I was getting over here. Here you tried. All right. Have you guys memorized it yet? Yeah, okay. John 13, 34, and 35, "A new command I give you to love one another is I have loved you, so you must love one another by this. They will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another." So there's love in that verse, right? So this counts as talking about love. If you have your Bibles, I encourage you to open up to John 13, because this particular passage, these two verses are kind of towards the end of the chapter, but it's kind of odd how he just throws it in here. That chapter starts with Jesus washing the disciples' feet and really giving them an example of how to love one another by humbling himself and serving. He goes on, he's going to predict, he's going to predict Judas' betrayal that one of you are going to betray me, then he's going to talk about him having to leave and go away, and then he throws in, "Oh, by the way, I have a new command for you to love one another as I have loved you." Then right afterwards, he's going to talk about going away again. He's just going to say, "No, you can't go away. I'm going to come with you." He says, "Oh yeah, by the way, you're going to what?
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Love one another as I have loved you. Jesus set the example of loving others by humbling Himself and serving with a sacrificial, deep, never ending love. The world will know we are His disciples by our love for one another.