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John 15:9–11 NKJV

“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 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. “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

Main Idea: Complete joy comes from a complete relationship with God.

Key Question: Is your joy incomplete today?

1. Complete love leads to complete obedience. (v. 9)

John 15:9 NKJV

“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

1 John 4:19 NKJV

We love Him because He first loved us.

John 14:15 NKJV

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.

2. Complete obedience leads to complete love. (v. 10)

John 15:10 NKJV

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.

John 14:21 NKJV

He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

Deuteronomy 10:12 NKJV

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Morris: Obedience here is relational fidelity, not legalism.

3. Complete love and obedience lead to complete joy. (v. 11)

John 15:11 NKJV

“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

John 17:13 NKJV

But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

1 John 1:4 NKJV

And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.

Greek: plērōthē (“filled to the brim, completed”)