glorydaz
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yup... Let’s read that one slowly together...
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another” John 13:34
Nice right? Love...love one another...but HOW?
Right question.
Oh look I bolded it for you...”AS I HAVE LOVED YOU” so does that mean we love one another just any old way? Or how the world loves itself? Or the Buddhists love each other? Or the muslims?
What type of love are we to love each other with? Yup the hint comes in the OT where that love was initially instructed and described and finally lived BY HIM in demonstrating and sealing the NT. So we are to love JUST AS HE LOVED US...
Now
does His love include a seventh day of rest? Yes...does yours?
does His love include only clean meats to eat? Yes...does yours?
Then you get sidetracked.
Jesus was talking to the disciples....who would be laying down their lives soon enough.
John 13:36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
So, when someone brings up foot washing, they need to realize Jesus was speaking to the DISCIPLES. Just as Jesus was speaking to the disciples concerning laying down their lives.