Friends

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These words of Jesus are very familiar.  He spoke them at the “last supper”, the meal he shared with his disciples the evening before his death.  But it wasn’t only a meal.  It was the final teaching he was leaving with them to sustain them when he was condemned and executed.  John devotes 5 full chapters to what he had to say that night.  In the middle, he records Jesus saying this: This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.  (John 15:12-15) Several things Jesus says here are remarkable.  What he says is enormously comforting, or course, as he intended.  But let’s not just take the superficial comfort and move on.  Let’s listen a little more carefully... Visit tidings.org for more insightful, Bible-based talks.

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