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John 13:31-35
Excerpted from: Love's Basic Definition

So understand this! The love of God is going to involve a cost to the individual who does the act—whatever it might be. We might say, then, that this 'costliness' is its vital, or essential, part. Now, it is not the only one. There is another one that has to be fit into this, if the love of God is going to really be there.

Even as God is manifested by what He does, His children will also be manifested by what they do, because they will be doing acts that are similar. Maybe not in scope, maybe not in size, but in kind—in terms of they will be things that will be done for the benefit of others; acts that will cost them something.

We also find from this series of verses that what the Father did and what the Son did, most specifically, what the Son did here in John 13, is going to be the standard against which all acts of love are to be measured. I am not thinking here of what Jesus specifically did in that period of time right after this episode in John 13 took place—that is, the crucifixion. I am talking about Jesus' entire life being the example, the standard, against which all acts of love are going to be measured.

John 13:34-35
Excerpted from: Serving the Brethren Through Prayer

I think this may be one of the most powerful statements in the Bible. It says, "By this we will know that you are My disciples, if you have love one for another." Have you ever wondered if you have God's Spirit? If you are living this way, one way to judge that very quickly: Do you love the brethren? We carry a very unique, divinely-ordained responsibility in the church of God. And these verses stress the importance of loving one another. And our love for one another is the very proof that we are disciples of Christ, the proof that we are being disciples, followers of Christ. And if we do not love one another, dare I say, are we really and truly Christians at all?

John 13:34-35
Excerpted from: Reconciliation and the Day of Atonement

God is showing through the church that all the prejudices against God and man can be dissolved and overcome through Christ. "New" here implies freshness, rather than from point of time. It is part of that different perspective. Love is merely the exercising of God's Word. Doing what He says to do is new for a convert because it means operating from the perspective of cooperation rather than competition.

Articles
No Greater Love
The Nature of God— What's Love Got To Do With It?

Essays
Evaluating the Price of Redemption
Friends of the Friendless (Part One)
The Absence of Love
What Makes a True Disciple? (Part One)
What Makes a True Disciple? (Part Two)

Sermons
John (Part 21)
Our Closest Neighbors
Man's Greatest Challenge (Part 4)
Is the United States a Christian Nation? (Part 7)
The Priesthood of God (Part 6)
Delusions of Perfection
The Foundation of the World
We Stick Together
We Stick Together
Rock of Salvation or of Offense?
Entrusted with Godly Holiness
Troubling the Household of God
Thank You for Finishing What You Start!
You Are My Friends!
God's Perseverance With His Saints (Part Three)
Antidote For Disunity!
Abraham's Sacrifice (Part Three): Hope Demonstrated
Strategies for Interfacing with Babylon Without Becoming Assimilated (Part Three)
All Sifted Like Wheat (Part Three)
All Sifted Like Wheat (Part Three)
All Sifted Like Wheat (Part Two)
All Sifted Like Wheat
Jesus and the Feast (Part Two): Belief in the Spirit
Jesus and the Feast (Part Two): Belief in the Spirit
Go Forward
These Things We Know
Producing Fruit
Love
Don't Stand Still!
By This Shall All Men Know You
Hebrews 12 and 13: Advice for the End Time
It Takes a Church
Simplifying Life (Part Three): Managing Human and Spiritual Relationships

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