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A New Commandment - A Father's Day Message

Jun 14, 2015

Passage:John 13:34-35

Preacher: Rick Blackwell

Detail:

A New Commandment

A Father’s Day Message

John 13:34-35 ESV

(34)  A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

(35)  By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

  1. Love One Another –

This phrase alone would be rather confusing.

  1. Just As I Have Loved You –

Mark 12:30-31 ESV

(30)  And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'

(31)  The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

1 John 4:16 ESV

(16)  So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV

(25)  Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

John 3:16 ESV

(16)  "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 15:13 ESV

(13)  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV

(4)  Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

(5)  or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

(6)  it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

(7)  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

(8)  Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

  1. So Love One Another –

Thanks Again!

I've sent bouquets for Mother's Day,

For Father's Day, a shirt and card.

While they came from the heart,

They all fell short of saying how special you both are.

It wasn't ' til I was up and gone,

Married with a couple of kids of my own,

Doing what mamas and daddies do,

That I realized what I must have put you through.

So thanks again for the love in the cradle,

And all of the changes that kept me dry.

And thanks again for the love at our table,

And tannin' my bottom when I told you a lie.

For takin' me fishin' and flyin' my kites,

And tuckin' me in, yes, night after night:

To my beautiful life-long friends,

Hey, Mom and Daddy thanks again.

I'm still a young man, least I think I am,

But I'm watchin' my own hair turn gray.

And your call last Sunday brought to mind,

That I owe you a debt I can never repay.

So thanks again for worryin' and waitin',

When I started datin' on weekend nights.

And thanks again for the help with my homework,

And sittin' up with me till I got it right.

Your car for the prom, your letters in 'Nam,

But most of all, Daddy, for marryin' Mom:

To my beautiful life long friends,

Hey, Mom and Daddy thanks again.

To my beautiful life long friends,

Hey, Mom and Daddy thanks again.