Keeps...Loves

John 14:15.21 – “If you love me, keep my commands…Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

John 16:27 – No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

1 John 2:5-6 – But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.

Application:

• ·         Love for Christ and keeping His commands cannot be separated.
• ·         Love, like faith, cannot be separated from obedience.
• ·         Christ is explaining why the disciples can come directly to the Father in prayer: They have loved and trusted in Jesus, and in love God will hear their requests in Jesus’ name.
• ·         God’s love for the believer is made complete when it moves the believer to acts of obedience.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV