Sixth Sunday of Easter Sermon – All you need is love

Jesus said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” Jesus spoke the words of God, whenever he was quoted in the Gospels. Therefore, Jesus said as God, “I you love God, you will keep His Commandments.” Jesus was asked by a Pharisee, when Jesus was being inspected as the Paschal Lamb to be found free of blemishes before his final Passover festival, “What is the greatest commandment?” What Jesus told that teacher Jesus also inferred to his disciples when he told them, “If you love me, you will do what I told that Pharisee the other day. Remember what I said?” The disciples were high on Seder wine, but they were still aware enough to answer Jesus. They were with him when the Sadducees and Pharisees came tugging on his wool, looking for flaws underneath. The disciples would have said, “You told the Pharisee that questioned you, “Love God with all your heart, and all you soul, and all your mind. Then you said to love your neighbor as yourself. You said that doing those two things would make all the rest come to be.” Jesus would have exclaimed, “Right you are! Very good, student! So, you get what I mean when I say ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments’!” The disciples would have remembered Jesus saying something stated right after everyone started their ‘drink till you drop’ Seder routine and would have asked, “You mean we need to add in the new commandment you gave us, ‘Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.  That commandment?” Again, Jesus would have marveled at the mental acumen of his disciples (minus Judas Iscariot).  They were not any more filled with the Holy Spirit at that point in their lives than any modern Christian is in the United States of America (the self-proclaimed leader of Christianity).  Still, what the disciples had then that is missing now is a desire to do what Jesus told them to do. The problem today is no one is left alive from that event. No American Christians were at that Jewish Passover meal, and they would not know Jesus if he walked up to them as they walked into the Walmart and began to tell them about the meaning of Scripture.  If Jesus did appear to them in unrecognizable form, they would probably use their cell phones to call 911.

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