![]() Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you not as the world gives do I give to you. ![]() But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. He who does not love Me does not keep My words and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?” And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. I will not leave you orphans I will come to you. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever- the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. An authoritative prescription.“If you love Me, keep My commandments. Strong's 1785: An ordinance, injunction, command, law. Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Feminine 1st Person Plural To note by implication, to detain by extension, to withhold by extension, to withhold. Verb - Future Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for denotes the love of reason, esteem. Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Plural From ei and an a conditional particle in case that, provided, etc. the contrast between the general idea of the constant and continuous work of grace in human hearts, and the special manifestation in personal glory and Divine activity of the Holy Ghost on Pentecost. But we here come across that which often perplexes the student, viz. Τὰς ἐντολὰς τὰς ἐμάς, "the commandments which are peculiarly mine" (see Westcott on John 15:9), "as either adopted and reuttered by me, or as originating in my new relation to you." "Guard them as a sacred deposit, obey them as the only reasonable response you can make to authoritative command." It is somewhat startling to find the great promise that follows conditioned by loving obedience, seeing that love and obedience in any sinful man, love to Christ itself, are elsewhere made the work of the Holy Spirit. ![]() This great saying is enlarged on in the subsequent section - the relation of love to obedience, obedience producing love, and love suggesting obedience and supplying it with motive. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. "If you love me, you will obey my commandments. Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will do as I command. If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. “If you love Me, you will keep My commands. “If you love me, you will keep my commands. “If you love Me, you will keep and obey My commandments. ![]() “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. ![]()
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