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John 14:15
Excerpted from: Passover (Part 1)He [God] stuck His neck out. It is almost as if there is no guarantee of 'a return.' But He was willing to sacrifice Himself in the hope that our response to the demonstration of His love, through His Son, would fill us with such a sense of obligation and admiration that we, in turn, would dedicate our lives in obedience to Him.
That is so plain. That is how we demonstrate love to God - to submit to Him through His commands.
He is just rearranging the words here. And really He means all of His words. Not just a couple. Not just a few.
Do you see the difference between the way it is in that translation and the way it is in most of our English translations? He is showing that the keeping of God's commandments is an on-going, continuous, process. It is not something that we just do every once in a while. But, rather, it is a way of life with us.
It is a process. It has a beginning. It has an end. And it is actively moving toward that end.
What we have just read there is the whole meaning of life for a Christian. If we are loving Christ, we will be keeping His commandments, and they are from the Father.
I think that we understand that there is a pseudo-Christianity out there - which uses the name of Jesus Christ, but refuses to do His will.
John 14:15
Excerpted from: Faith (Part Five)I know that all of us feel this responsibility and at times it really weighs heavily on us because we feel that we should be doing better, and maybe we should be doing better, and our conscience is responding to the proddings of the Holy Spirit, and we are grieving it. But we also need to understand that these things like faith and love and repentance are gifts of God by means of Him giving us His Spirit, and the very fact that He has given these things to us has empowered us to use it. Now listen carefully what I say. Notice this statement by Jesus back in John 14:15.
I wonder whether you caught a very frequently overlooked aspect of what Jesus said. We frequently quote I John 5:3 and say that love is the keeping of the law.
See, love is the keeping of the law. We remember this verse and we carry the concept of love perhaps no farther. But there is a more precise and accurate approach that clearly establishes (look at that verse while I say this to you now), that the love exists before the keeping of the commandments. Do you see that there? The keeping of the commandments is the response of what is already there. If you already love Me, keep My commandments.
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Excerpted from: Passover (Part 10)Abide means to continue in, live in, in the sense of being part of a process. Love is defined as keeping the commandments of God. John 14:15: "If you love Me, keep My commandments." I John 5:3: "For this is the love of God, [Here comes the definition], that you keep His commandments." This is the definition of love. That is very basic to the Christian way of life, to understand that the keeping of the commandments is love. If we are going to live, or abide, or continue in the love of God, we are going to keep on keeping His commandments and not the traditions of men. That is the way Jesus lived.
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Excerpted from: Loving Christ and Revelation 2:1-7I believe that it was no accident, no coincidence at all, that Christ placed the message to Ephesus first in order, and that its subject is love in context with overcoming. Remember what Christ said in John 14:15: "If you love Me, keep My commandments." It takes the love of God to keep the commandments in the spirit, in their intent, and it is love working and active when they are kept. I John 5:3 says: "This is the love of God, that you keep His commandments." So when we keep His commandments we are expressing love. It is working. It is in action.
John 14:15
Excerpted from: Love and Works"Keep" means "do My commandments." Now here is an important key. The love of God, according to Romans 5:5, is shed abroad in our hearts by His Holy Spirit.
"If you love Me, keep the commandments." If we have His Spirit, the love is there. Did you hear me? If we have His Spirit, the love is there. It might be viewed or seen as the making of a deposit in a bank to draw on. God gives us His Spirit; He deposits His love in us in order that it might be drawn upon. It is for our use. It is a gift. However, it takes work to use it.
John 14:15
Excerpted from: The Sin of Self-DeceptionThere is nothing hard about that—to know, to understand. Do you love God? You can demonstrate that love by just doing what He says. There is nothing hard about that. It might be hard to do, but it is not hard to understand.
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