Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore, with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. – Jeremiah 31:3

…having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end. – John 13:1

Jesus loved His people with a foresight of what they would be. Love is blind, they say, but not the Savior’s love. He knew that “His own” would fall in Adam; He knew that as they lived personally each one would become a sinner; He understood that they would be hard to reclaim and difficult to retain, even after they had been reclaimed; He saw every sin that they would commit in the glass of the future, for from His prescient eye nothing can be hidden. And yet He loved His own over the head of all their sins, and their revoltings, and their shortcomings. Hence, we see that He bears towards them an affection which cannot be changed, for nothing can occur which He has not foreseen, nothing therefore which has not already been taken into calculation in the matter of His choice. No new circumstance can shed unexpected light upon the case. No startling and unforeseen event can become an argument for a change. Hence Jesus’ love is full of immutability. There are no ups and downs in the love of Christ towards His people. On their highest Tabors He loves them, but equally as well in their Gethsemanes. When they wander like lost sheep His great love goes after them, and when they come back with broken hearts His great love restores them. By day, by night, in sickness, in sorrow, in poverty, in famine, in prison, in the hour of death, that silver stream of love ripples at their side, never stayed, never diminished. Forever is the sea of divine grace at its flood; this sun never sets; this fountain never pauses. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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…He loved them unto the end. – John 13:1

The Master displayed His love to His disciples throughout His life by the way in which He sought to comfort them when He foresaw that they would be cast down; especially was this true at the period before His passion-when one would have thought He might have sought for comfort, He was busy distributing it. Those choice words which have flown like a dove into many a mourner’s window bearing the olive branch of peace, were the fond utterances of a thoughtful heart. “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions.” Many such bottles of oil and wine did He apply to the wounds of His disciples. He would not have them suffer any kind of spiritual turmoil. “In the world ye shall have tribulation” said He, “but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” His peace He distributed right liberally and left it as His last legacy: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth give I unto you.” In the private life of every one of those chosen men, there must have been incidents of matchless tenderness; but they are not recorded, because if all were written which Jesus did, even the world itself would not contain the things, which should have been written. Enough is written to let us see that no tenderness of mothers, or care of friends, could match the ever, generous forethought of the Friend of man. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end. – John 13:1

Our Savior’s faithfulness towards the chosen band whom He had elected into His fellowship was most remarkable. He had selected persons who must have been but poor companions for one of so gigantic a mind and so large a heart. He must have been greatly shocked at their worldliness. They groveled in the dust when He mounted to the stars. He was thinking of the baptism wherewith He was to be baptized, and He was straitened until it was accomplished, but they were disputing which among them should be the greatest. He was ready to deny Himself that He might do His Father’s will, and meanwhile they were asking to sit on His right hand and on His left hand in His kingdom.

Worse than the fact of their natural worldliness perhaps, was the apparent impossibility of lifting them out of that low condition; for though never a man spake as He spake, how little did they understand! And though He took them aside and said to them, “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God,” yet after many plain teachings He was compelled to say to one of the best of them, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip?” They were dull scholars. There is no teacher here who could have had patience with such heavy intellects, but our Lord and Master’s love remained evermore at flood-tide, notwithstanding their incorrigible stupidity. His love was stronger than their unbelief and ignorance. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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“Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end.”-John 13:1

“Having loved His own.” Those four words are a brief but complete summary of the Savior’s conduct towards His disciples. He always loved them. There was never a single action or word which was contrary to the rule of love. He loved them with a love of pity when He saw them in their lost estate, and He called them out of it to be His disciples; touched with a feeling of their infirmities He loved them with a tender and prudent affection, and sought to train and educate them, that after His departure they might be good soldiers of His cross. Even when He rebuked them, He loved them. He subjected them to many trials: for His sake they renounced all that they had; they shared His daily cross-bearing and hourly persecution but love reigned supreme and undiminished through it all. On Tabor or in Gethsemane He loved His own; alone or in the crowd His heart was true to them; in life and in death His affection failed not. He “loved His own which were in the world.” It is a multum in parvo, a condensed life of Christ, a miniature of Jesus the Lover of souls. As you read the wonderful story of the four evangelists, you see how true it is that Jesus loved His own. Let me cast in by way of interjection, this sentence, that when you come to read your own life’s story in the light of the New Jerusalem, you will find it to be true also concerning your Lord and yourself: if you are indeed the Lord’s own, He at all times deals lovingly with you, and never acts in unkindness or wrath. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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