John 15:12-15 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.
We are clearly being challenged to see that Jesus will know if we love him when he sees if we obey his commandments. What is it that he commanded? He tells them and us that he has shared with us all that the Father said to him. He is telling us to act according to what he has taught, for example in the sermon on the mount. He sent out the twelve and later the seventy two with instructions like, heal the sick, cast out demons and proclaim that the kingdom of God has come near.
In the great commission Jesus said,“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” I hear in those words a clear statement that Jesus will believe that we love him, when we obey everything that he commands. To how many people have I brought healing or helped to eliminate evil or proclaimed that the kingdom of God is near. I fact all we have to do is help them welcome the kingdom that is right in front of them in Jesus. Accept Christ as their savior and the kingdom id theirs. Well Jesus, do believe I love you?
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