Abide in Christ’s Love
John 15:10
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.
Jesus seems to be making a differences between His Father's commandments that Jesus kept and His commandments He wants us to keep.
I don't believe that Jesus is talking about us keeping the 10 commandments that the Father gave under the law, but His commandments that are under grace.
Jesus fulfilled the law by keeping the commandments that man could not but that Jesus did.
We are not children of the bond woman, but the free woman. We are not orphans, but sons.
I think that there are basically 5 commandments that Jesus gave us.
1. To believe on Him who was sent. (Jesus)
2. To love one another the way we have been loved. (not love your neighbor as you love yourself, but love the way Jesus and Father has loved you.)
3. To be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
4. To preach the Kingdom.
5 To make disciples.
Think about it, what is the devil fighting against?
Believing, loving, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God and making disciples (bringing people into Christ).
Food for thought.
Grace on your journey.
Doug
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Knowing the Three
2 Cor. 13:14 (1)The amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, (2) the extravagant love of God, (3) the intimate friendship of the Holy Spirit, be with all of you.
(1) When I think of the grace of Christ given to me, I realizes it not what I have to do, but what Jesus has already done. It is His ability to work redemption in every situation though me, another way to say it, Jesus giving me the things I need to do the work He has called me to do. So then it is not by my works, but His grace working in me.
Eph 4: 7 To each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.
(2) When I think of the extravagant love of the Father, it was His calling and choosing of me, it was because He first love me, it was all about what He wanted and He did, so that I could experience who He is.
1 John 4:7-11 Beloved , let us love one another, for love is from God: and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1John 3:16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 Let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. ( Put your stuff, where your mouth is, and then the world will know we are loving one another and will see the family and will want to be part of what they see, not what they hear us saying, but see us living.)
(3) When I think of having a friendship with the Holy Spirit, the first question that I ask. What is a friend?
Someone I can trust, enjoy being with, has my back, loves no matter what, brings the best out of me, believes in me, and likes being with me.
John14:26 The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you: My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
I know that there is lots more about the three, so put some thought and time in it. My prayer, is you enjoy getting to know the fullness of the three.
Blessings
Doug
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Have Faith in God
Have you ever been told to just have faith in God when you were in a hard place? Yea sure, not much help.
I have been thinking about that. I think we need to understand what have faith in God is all about.
1. We know that without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those that seek Him. (Heb 11:6)
2. We know that He has given each one of us faith. (Rom 12:3)
3. We live by faith ( Gal 2:20)
4. We walk by faith ( 2 Cor 5: 7)
I think sometimes we think it is all what we do or what we have done with faith, that makes things happen in our lives.
We forget that it is not about us, but all about the one who loved us and gave himself for us.
I think that when we are in a hard place, we need to just have faith in the not what we have to do, but in what He has done.
(believing in the person of the Father, the integrity and character of who He is, knowing that He will finish what He has begun in our lives)
It is easier for me to believe in His ability to be God than my ability to have faith to do.
I am glad that He is faithful, even when I am not.
John 15;16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name, He may give to you.
Eph 1:4 He close us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.
So the next time you hear, Have Faith in God. Have Faith in who He is and what He has already done.
Food for thought.
Grace on your journey.
Doug
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