Bible Studies
John 14:15-21 - By Our Love
Key Verses: (NRSV)
- 15: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments." - Being like Christ and doing as He would have us do is an act of love.
- 16-17: "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. You know Him, because He abides with you, and He will be in you." - We do not need to search for the Holy Spirit in our lives; we don't even have to be pray for God to fill us with His Spirit. He is already there, abiding, living within, guiding, and walking beside us.
- 20: "On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you." - Calming their Upper Room fears, Jesus tells His disciples to have no fear. He is not leaving them "orphaned."
21: "They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them." - Keeping Christ's commandments is not a rite of passage or trial of worthiness. If we love Christ, then we will love as He commanded. Our actions are a byproduct of our belief in Christ and His love reveals the wonders of God living within us.
- Do you love Christ?
Promise of the Gospel:
The manner in which we live our lives should be as a direct response to Christ's love for us. We are loved so we should love. This instruction of love is not a directive from above, written on stone tablets or faxed and emailed with God's signature. It is simply this: because we are loved, we shall love.
"We are one in the Spirit; we are one in the Lord. We are one in the Spirit; we are one in the Lord. And we pray that all unity may one day be restored. And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love, Yes they'll know we are Christians by our love."1
1"They will know we are Christians," ©1992 Lorenz Publishing Company - David Paxton and Peter Scholtes
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