Mac begins with a prayer, expressing gratitude for the opportunity to gather and feast on God's Word and Spirit, emphasizing the importance of feeding on Christ as the bread of life. The focus of his message is on the key to recovery—loving one another as Jesus loved us. He highlights the significance of understanding Jesus' life, motivation, and heart, beyond familiar stories, recognizing His divine authority as Lord and His humanity as the Son of Man. Mac underscores that Jesus' love was motivated by the purpose of revealing the Father's love and bringing salvation to the world, demonstrated through His life, death, and resurrection. He reviews Jesus' ministry, from His incarnation—born in humility, living a hidden life, serving faithfully, and enduring rejection—to His public ministry marked by rejection, miracles, and ultimate sacrifice at Calvary. Mac emphasizes that Jesus' love was purposeful, constant, and unconditional, extending even to Judas and His enemies, exemplified in His patience, kindness, humility, and self-control. He calls believers to emulate this love, which is not superficial but rooted in the Spirit, and to pursue a fullness of knowing Christ’s love that surpasses human understanding. The message concludes with a call for believers to respond to Jesus’ love, allowing it to transform their lives and manifest in unity and love among His people, reflecting His testimony to the world. Mac prays for a renewed revelation of Christ’s love, a deeper experience of His purpose, and a longing for His return, so His bride may be made ready, and His kingdom come on earth as in heaven.
33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;