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00:00Pretty soon we will not have many children that are all too grown up now, let's bring
00:09them on up.
00:10The guests come on in here, I reserve the right to, or you reserve the right to please
00:15change the temperature of the vacuum.
00:17Come on up here, join me by the table.
00:20This here is what we know as the communion table, right?
00:26We have the bread, we have the wine for the juice in our case, right?
00:32I want you to first off tell me, what is love?
00:39That's a very philosophical, heavy kind of question, right?
00:44What is love?
00:45Let's start with Jewel and Baldwin.
00:47What is love?
00:48Just try to describe love.
00:51When you care about someone.
00:53When you care about someone, very good.
00:55When you want to hug them.
00:59When you want to hug them, that's right.
01:01Yes, sometimes we all just need to hug them.
01:03How about?
01:04When you have to love someone.
01:06When you have to love, okay, yeah.
01:08Putting the word in the definition, that's correct.
01:10When you, you say you have to love someone.
01:12So, like, you must love that, or?
01:16Yeah.
01:17Yeah, you must love it.
01:18Kenzie, you're holding it real quick for me.
01:20What is love?
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01:27I'm sorry.
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01:29What's love?
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01:31You always get strident when it's like.
01:33Oh, you're thinking, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
01:36I'm sorry.
01:37Yes, sorry.
01:38It's a song.
01:40What is love?
01:41What is love?
01:42What is love?
01:43What are two words?
01:44Anything?
01:45No?
01:46Okay, that's fine.
01:47Well, let me help you guys.
01:49So, that's actually good.
01:50At least you're honest enough to say that you don't know.
01:51But we have a verse that Peter Perra will put on the screen.
01:53I'm sorry.
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02:10The verse that Peter Perra will put on the screen.
02:12Maybe this will help us.
02:13Some of you already mentioned this.
02:15Let's read it together.
02:16This is how we know what love is.
02:20Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
02:24And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
02:291 John 3.16 in the New International Version.
02:34I probably could have started out by asking you if you could recite for me.
02:38John 3.16.
02:40But this is another verse that has a John 3.16.
02:43Exactly.
02:44It's 1 John 3.16.
02:46And this tells us how we know what love is.
02:51All very good definitions.
02:53Even though, you know, in Kenzie's case, maybe she didn't have the words to express it.
02:57But this right here simplifies it for us.
03:00When someone asks you what love is, we can simply say that love is Jesus Christ laying down his life for us.
03:08How did he lay down his life for us?
03:10What was it that Jesus did?
03:11Did he lay down his life for us?
03:18What did he do?
03:19Go ahead.
03:20I know you know the answer.
03:21He died on the cross.
03:22Yes!
03:23On the cross, right there.
03:24It's that symbol that we all know and love as Christians.
03:28He died for us.
03:29Now, before that, though, he also lived the sinless life in our place.
03:33But that's another subject for another time.
03:35The point here, though, is that Jesus showed us.
03:39He demonstrated for us.
03:41He showed us exactly what love is and not just telling us this is the definition of love.
03:48So he showed it for us.
03:49And also, this right here, which is why I am here, this is also part of Jesus' demonstration of his love for us.
03:57Before he even went on the cross, like Lionel said, Jesus took the bread, gave thanks.
04:02He took the wine and gave thanks.
04:04He gave it to his disciples and said, eat this, drink this.
04:08And as often as you do both of those things, you do it in remembrance of Jesus and what he did for us.
04:14Do you want to go back to the verse again?
04:16Because there's one thing that it says here that I think is important for us to understand.
04:20It doesn't only say that Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
04:24But what is that last sentence?
04:26And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
04:32Now, that may not mean, of course, that we're going to also die on the cross like Jesus did for us.
04:37But it does mean that we sacrifice.
04:40I think, Jewel, you had the correct definition earlier.
04:45We show it by the way we live, by the way we sacrifice brothers.
04:50Okay, let's pray before we dismiss you for your Bible studies.
04:54And before that, let us give thanks to Teacher Miles.
04:59Teacher Miles, let's give her a hand.
05:02So, let's pray.
05:03Hold your hands, bow your hands, bow your hands, bow your hands, bow your hands to follow me and say,
05:08Father God, thank you for sending Jesus, your son, who showed us how to love.
05:20Because you, our Lord, our God, are love.
05:26Help me to love others as you love me.
05:31In Jesus' name.
05:33Amen.