Wednesday, Oct. 30
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Love Jesus and Love Others
Love Jesus and Love Others
Jesus is preparing them for what life is going to be like without Him. What He is about to say is very important.
In this section of Scripture, Jesus tells them three primary things:
He is going away to prepare a place for them and will return.
They are to follow two primary commands: love God and love others.
He promises them to send the Holy Spirit.
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15 “If you love me, you will keep my commands.
Jesus does not separate love from obedience. He defines love by obedience.
When I got married, I told Heather this: If you love me obey my commands.
Jeanine also told me: If you love my daughter obey my commands.
The point is this. If you love someone…you want to please them. If Jesus is Lord, then it follows that to show Him love…you obey.
you don’t get to make up your own ideas about how to show Jesus love.
you don’t get to make up your own ideas about how Jesus love you.
The relationship is this:
Jesus is Lord and we are not.
He demonstrated His love for us in that H died for us while were were still yet sinners.
We demonstrate our love for Him by obeying Him.
21 The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
If we love Jesus (obey), the Father will love us.
Jesus will reveal Himself to us. (How? Glad you asked. Judas (not Iscariot) asked the same question.
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it you’re going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
24 The one who doesn’t love me will not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.
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So Jesus will reveal Himself by dwelling with the one who loves Him.
Do you feel distant from the Lord sometime…there is probably an obedience problem.
If you feel close the the Lord, but there is an obedience problem, your feelings are lying to you.
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28 You have heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
29 I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe.
Imagine the disciples’ state of mind as Jesus tells them that He is leaving them. They have lived with Jesus, traveled with Him, prayed with Him, served with Him, been taught by Him, everything up to this point WITH JESUS.
This would have been scary…but Jesus says that if they love Him, they will be happy that He is going to the Father.
He is speaking future things to them so that they will believe rightly when it happens.
Jesus wants them to rejoice when He leaves, not sulk. He wants them to get to work when He leaves, not be paralysed.
5 I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.
6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.
8 My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be my disciples.
9 “As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.
10 If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
11 “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
They are told to remain in Him and remain in His love.
So they are to LOVE HIM (remain in His love)
9 “As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.
10 If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
11 “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
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And they are to know His word (remain in His word)
This is Jesus’ formula for joy!
We sometimes shoot for small potatoes. We shoot for happiness, when Jesus has given us a formula for joy.
12 “This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you.
13 No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends.
Jesus now turns the love conversation from loving Him to loving each other.
The example Jesus gives them: Him. He is laying down His life for His friends.
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If you want to evaluate the love that is in the room for each other…we have a plumbline.
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
17 “This is what I command you: Love one another.
This is somewhat obscure, but I don’t want you to miss how all of the nuts and bolts of this work:
Our love for Jesus (obedience) produces a love for other believers.
The fruit that is produced from our love of Jesus is our love for others.
When we produce fruit, we have a reward…a blank check from Father…Well a blank check made out to Jesus.
So imagine writing out a check for anything:
100 baptisms this year…Jesus approved!
That other woman who is not my wife…Jesus approved!
Do you see the contrast between the two requests?
So this is the nuts and bolts of Jesus’ command to love God and others:
loving Jesus produces the fruit of loving others. This comes with a reward. We get to ask the Father for anything that is Jesus approved.
Because we need help loving God, God will send the Counselor or Advocate or Intercessor
Because we need help loving God, God will send the Counselor or Advocate or Intercessor
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commands.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.
17 He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be in you.
Contrast with what Peter says:
38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”
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Loving Jesus, keeping His commands begins with repentance.
God will respond to repentance by sending the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit will be with us forever.
25 “I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you.
26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.
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The HS will teach us all things and remind us of everything Jesus has told us.
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25 But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled: They hated me for no reason.
26 “When the Counselor comes, the one I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me.
26 “When the Counselor comes, the one I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me.
The HS will testify about Jesus.
7 Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.
8 When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment:
9 About sin, because they do not believe in me;
10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;
11 and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.
13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears. He will also declare to you what is to come.
14 He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
15 Everything the Father has is mine. This is why I told you that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.
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It is better for Jesus to go away and the HS to come.
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He will:
convict the world about sin, because they do not believe in Jesus.
convict the world about righteousness, because they will no longer be able to see Jesus.
convict the world about judgmenet, because Satan has been judged already.
How will he do this? Signs and wonders.
The HS will guide us to all truth.
He will speak future things.
He will glorify Jesus.
With the Spirit’s help we will love Jesus (obey). The fruit of that will be a love for others. The reward for that is a blank check, Jesus approved, for all who believe.