Beloved : Love to the End - Good Friday - John 19:16b-30

Love is hard to find in this world. Love of a man for his friend. Love in families. Love in relationships that withstands anything. True love is hard to come by. Rather, we often as sinful people, end up loving and serving ourselves or loving things that we place above others. Jesus calls us to love and serve and care for others. We pray by the power of the Holy Spirit, we would love a fraction of the way he has loved us. Jesus loved us to the end. He loved his disciples as he dined with them, washed their feet, and even prepared to be betrayed by one of them. He loved his mother as he was dragged to the cross. He loved even those who put him to the cross. Through all of this, he showed his love for you. A love that was willing to completely give up everything, for you and I. Jesus loved to the end, by gifting us his promises, serving us, and dying for us on the cross.