John 15:9-10 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. (10) If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
It is interesting ... time and time again I hear people, even so called religious people, criticize Christians over their teaching of the necessity of Obedience. But so often in the New Testament Jesus links obedience with Love ... as he does here.
Jesus states in verse 9 that the Father has loved him. And for that reason, Jesus has in turn loved us. Then he urges us to “continue in his love”. How do we continue in the love of Jesus? Verse 10. We MUST keep his commandments.
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love...
Notice the end of verse 10. If anybody questions the need of being strict with obedience, they only need to read verse 10. Jesus says that we should obey God the same way that he obeyed his Father’s Commands.
If Jesus is not to good, too important, too deistic to be obedient ... Neither are we!
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