Living the Fruitful Life - Remain in His Love
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 of Nazareth, speaking to His disciples, 1st century
John 15:9-10 in The Tree of Life Version
[This is the 4th lesson in this series]
In the previous lesson, we have talked about why we need to abide in Christ.
Abiding in (or remaining with) Christ also involves abiding in His love.
Love Begets Love
God is love. The Father loves the Son. And the Son loves us. We love them and others.
This is what it means to remain in God's love. The ones we love, we keep their commands. And it's not that God's commands are complicated. They aren't. We have talked about them multiple times. It is embedded in the excerpt above and it's essence.
God's commands are not even commands, they are merely natural offshoots of His love (like a new branch sprouting out of a tree). They are the proper response, the only response.
A new branch sprouting out of a tree
Love
God's commands are simply to love Him and to love others. Just as Jesus showed us how.
Christians will be known as Christians through the love of Christ that is in them and that naturally flows out from them.
God's love came down from heaven, and we celebrate this on Christmas day. God's love was made complete when Christ died for us and rose from the grave to save us from our sins.
Christians will be known as Christians through the love of Christ that is in them and that naturally flows out from them.
God's love came down from heaven, and we celebrate this on Christmas day. God's love was made complete when Christ died for us and rose from the grave to save us from our sins.
Matthew 1:21 in the Amplified Bible Edition
She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus [the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior], for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God].
Our work is to tell others about Christ Jesus and to love them like Christ did. It isn't easy but it isn't impossible either. The same love we received from God is the same love we give out. And yes, only when we abide in His love.
She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus [the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior], for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God].
Our work is to tell others about Christ Jesus and to love them like Christ did. It isn't easy but it isn't impossible either. The same love we received from God is the same love we give out. And yes, only when we abide in His love.
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