1. Having Loved His Own Having Loved, He Loved
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Having Loved His Own Having Loved, He Loved

2. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own This is not for everyone
It was done in the upper room to encourage and to instruct the disciples
Shows God’s sovereign grace in choosing His own
Sovereignty of Jesus’ time to go to the Father
Sovereignty of Jesus providing for those in the world that He has chosen, drawn, and called

3. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own Who are Christ’s own?
Those given to Christ by the Father – 6:37-39, 44

4. John 6:37-39, 44 (NASB)
37  All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.
38  For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
39  This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day
44  No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.

5. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own Who are Christ’s own?
Those given to Christ by the Father – 6:37-39, 44
Those for whom Christ is about to die – 10:11,

6. John 10:11, (NASB)
11  “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
14  I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,
15  even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

7. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own Who are Christ’s own?
Those given to Christ by the Father – 6:37-39, 44
Those for whom Christ is about to die – 10:11,
Those born of God – 1:13

8. John 1:13 (NASB)
13  who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

9. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own Who are Christ’s own?
Those given to Christ by the Father – 6:37-39, 44
Those for whom Christ is about to die – 10:11,
Those born of God – 1:13
Those given eternal life and security – 10:28-29

10. John 10: (NASB)
28  and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand

11. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own Who are Christ’s own?
Those given to Christ by the Father – 6:37-39, 44
Those for whom Christ is about to die – 10:11,
Those born of God – 1:13
Those given eternal life and security – 10:28-29
Those who have been drawn – 6:44
Those who have been called – 10:2-4
Those who have heard His voice – 10:2-4

12. John 10:2-4 (NASB)
2  But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.
3  To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
4  When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

13. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own Who is the world?
Most important concept in John’s Gospel
kosmos – literally means world (cosmopolitan)
Originally, “an ornament,” beautiful itself – cosmetic
In time, applied to the universe or world – 1:9-10

14. John 1:9-10 (NASB)
9  There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

15. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own Who is the world?
Most important concept in John’s Gospel
kosmos – literally means world (cosmopolitan)
Originally, “an ornament,” beautiful itself – cosmetic
In time, applied to the universe or world – 1:9-10
Therefore, it included the people of the world
“The human race” collectively – John 3:16-17; John 2:2; John 4:42; 1 John 4:14

16. John 3:16-17 (NASB) 1 John 2:2 (NASB)
16  “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
17  For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
1 John 2:2 (NASB)
2  and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

17. John 4:42 (NASB) 1 John 4:14 (NASB)
42  and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.”
1 John 4:14 (NASB)
14  We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

18. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own Who is the world?
Last use refers to the world of human beings but who are in rebellion to God (world system)
World system includes the values, pleasures, pastimes, and aspirations
The world that does not know God! 1 John 3:1

19. 1 John 3:1 (NASB)
1  See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

20. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own Who is the world?
Last use refers to the world of human beings but who are in rebellion to God (world system)
World system includes the values, pleasures, pastimes, and aspirations
The world that does not know God! 1 John 3:1
The world that rejected Jesus! John 1:10-11

21. John 1: (NASB)
10  He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.
11  He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.

22. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own Who is the world?
Last use refers to the world of human beings but who are in rebellion to God (world system)
World system includes the values, pleasures, pastimes, and aspirations
The world that does not know God! 1 John 3:1
The world that rejected Jesus! John 1:10-11
The world that hates Jesus’ followers! John 15:18-21

23. John 15: (NASB)
18  “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
19  If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
20  Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
21  But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

24. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own Who is the world?
Last use refers to the world of human beings but who are in rebellion to God (world system)
World system includes the values, pleasures, pastimes, and aspirations
The world that does not know God! 1 John 3:1
The world that rejected Jesus! John 1:10-11
The world that hates Jesus’ followers! John 15:18-21
John 17:14

25. John 17:4 (NASB)
4  I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

26. A Summary of Word “the World”
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A Summary of Word “the World”
Refers to the created world that God has given to Christians to cherish, protect, and enjoy
Refers to the world that Christians have been given to love and to evangelize
Refers to the set of values, pleasures, etc. that Christians are to reject and to order their lives of grace against

27. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved His Own
God has done some things for all men (unsaved)
God has done all things for some men (saved)
Jesus loves those who are His own
Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us (heaven)
Jesus told us He was going to send a replacement
Jesus commissions us to a special work
Jesus intercedes or prays for us
Jesus invites us to pray for one another and the Kingdom

28. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved, He Loved
God loves without reason – Romans 5:6-8; John 4:10

29. Romans 5:6-8 (NASB)
6  For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7  For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.
8  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

30. 1 John 4:10 (NASB)
10  In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins

31. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved, He Loved
God loves without reason – Romans 5:6-8; John 4:10
God loves without variation and without end
Having loved – God’s past performance
He showed – Jesus’ present performance in what He was doing and was about to do (aorist)
God’s love is seen in that He created us and He created us with a spiritual emptiness which gives us purpose and meaning

32. True Love John 13:1
“Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.” Augustine

33. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved, He Loved
God loves without reason – Romans 5:6-8; John 4:10
God loves without variation and without end
Having loved – God’s past performance
He showed – Jesus’ present performance in what He was doing and was about to do (aorist)
God’s love is seen in that He created us and He created us with a spiritual emptiness which gives us purpose and meaning
God’s love is seen in that He calls and regenerates
God’s love is seen in the death of His only Son

34. True Love John 13:1 Having Loved, He Loved
“The full extent” or “unto the end” of what?
The end of Jesus’ earthly life – others, not Himself
To the end of their lives – sustains us forever
To the very end of ends or without end, forever
Greek word is telos – perfection

35. Three results of knowing the kind of love God has for us in Jesus
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Application
Three results of knowing the kind of love God has for us in Jesus
Love God more and more each day!
Love others (neighbor) who know Christ, encouraging and strengthening each other
Love others (neighbor) who do not know Christ by being like Christ to them

36. Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all
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Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all