Message Three is a short, but very sweet, word focusing on the absolutely incredible love that the Lord Jesus has for us, His disciples! The dear ones in the Philippines had just taken the Lord Table’s together, and apparently TAS was asked to give a short word (probably 10 to 15 minutes in length, at the most) after the Lord's Table.
The vast majority of TAS’s messages were not spoken in a tightly-organized, systematic, way. By nature, TAS was a bit of a “scatter-brain”. His speaking always seems to have come out of a deep, heartfelt, burden for his listeners, and his speaking contains many loosely-organized nuggets of spiritual wisdom gained from his time spent in the Word and from his experiences in the Lord. These nuggets are not spoken in a way that rigorously presents doctrine; rather, they are spoken in a stream of thought that is aimed at generating the greatest possible revealing of Christ, along with the greatest possible practical help to those listening (kind of like . . . the Bible!).
This message three is one of those messages where TAS closely followed a strict “outline”, probably due to the very tight time constraint. Using John 13:1 as his starting point, TAS presents seven aspects of the love that the Lord Jesus has towards all His disciples, as seen in John chapters 13 and 14. Some of these aspects really touch me deeply.
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"Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own that were in the world, He loved them unto the end - unto the uttermost." (John 13:1 ASV)
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