{"id":3492,"date":"2020-04-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2020-04-17T08:32:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:32:55","slug":"eight-sayings-of-jesus-after-resurrection-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southsidealive.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/eight-sayings-of-jesus-after-resurrection-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Sayings of Jesus After Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong> Our New Life In Christ &#8211; The Love Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, our devotional thoughts will be a celebration of our new life in Christ. To do this, we are looking at eight sayings of Jesus after His resurrection. Each of these sayings explains one blessed aspect of our new life with Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> 5. The Love Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some time later, Jesus appears to His disciples early one morning and serves them breakfast. Following that breakfast, we see one of the most famous discourses in the Bible between Jesus and Peter.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>John 21:15\u201317 (ESV)<br>15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, \u201cSimon, son of John, do you love me more than these?\u201d He said to him, \u201cYes, Lord; you know that I love you.\u201d He said to him, \u201cFeed my lambs.\u201d 16 He said to him a second time, \u201cSimon, son of John, do you love me?\u201d He said to him, \u201cYes, Lord; you know that I love you.\u201d He said to him, \u201cTend my sheep.\u201d 17 He said to him the third time, \u201cSimon, son of John, do you love me?\u201d Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, \u201cDo you love me?\u201d and he said to him, \u201cLord, you know everything; you know that I love you.\u201d Jesus said to him, \u201cFeed my sheep.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Most scholars believe that Jesus was reaffirming Peter by asking him three times, \u201cDo you love me?\u201d as a counter to Peter having denied Jesus three times. While this is probably accurate, it is not the point I want to make today.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Look carefully\u2026<br \/>John 21:15-17,<br \/>&#8220;Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?&#8230; Feed My lambs.<br \/>.. Simon, son of John, do you love Me? \u2026Tend My sheep.<br \/>.. Simon, son of John, do you love Me?&#8230; Feed My sheep.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Here is what I want us to see today. The only appropriate motivation for ministering to others is our love for Jesus. And in our ministering to others, they should experience our love for them.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>When Jesus was asked what was the most important commandment, He responding by saying, Mark 12:30\u201331 (ESV)<br \/>30 \u201c\u2026you 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.\u2019 31 The second is this: \u2018You shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019 There is no other commandment greater than these.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The question was, \u201cWhich was the greatest commandment\u201d (Singular). And, Jesus links two commandments into being one together. The point is, this LOVE LIFE that we have been given requires us to express our love for Jesus by ministering love to others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our New Life In Christ &#8211; The Love Life This week, our devotional thoughts will be a celebration of our new life in Christ. To do this, we are looking at eight sayings of Jesus after His resurrection. Each of these sayings explains one blessed aspect of our new life with Christ. 5. 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