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Love of the Lord is shown through feeding His sheep
From the Mouth of the Lord
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5 So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of [b]Jonah, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I [c]love You.” He said to him, “Feed My lambs.”16 He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of [d]Jonah, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I [e]love You.” He said to him, “Tend My sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time,
From the Mouth of the Lord
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“Simon, son of [f]Jonah, do you [g]love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.”
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Bring ourselves and the people we serve in to a relationship with God.
The Commandment
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9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
The Commandment
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16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another. (John 15: 9-17)
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