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1 | pls. explain john 14:21 | John 14:21 | Gary4god | 162067 | ||
can someone please explain the meaning for the scripture on John 14:21 :"He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him." | ||||||
2 | pls. explain john 14:21 | John 14:21 | DocTrinsograce | 162068 | ||
Dear Gary4God, The internal evidences of God's work always have an external expression (John 3:8). The first step in obedience is believing that God has done what He said He has done (John 3:36). This is only possible after regeneration, a work done by the divine choice of God the Father, by the atonement of the Son, through the power of the Holy Spirit. A person who is regenerate is empowered to obey. That person will be and live an expression of love for God (Mark 12:29-31). Remember, true love of Jesus always produces a life of growing obedience (John 14:15). In Him, Doc |
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3 | What did Jesus mean, "obey My commands?" | John 14:21 | MJH | 162122 | ||
Doc, what does Jesus mean by "My commandments?" I hear this passage preached on, but the message usually consists of, "you need to obey God..." without saying what that means. If we love Jesus, and want to obey Him, then what did HE mean by this statement? What did a 1st century Rabbi, whoes "Bible" was only the Tanak (Old Testement) mean when he said to obey His commandments? MJH |
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4 | What did Jesus mean, "obey My commands?" | John 14:21 | Searcher56 | 162157 | ||
God's day to you, MJH ... His commnadments He was speaking about, were what he had spoken while on earth. If you study what He said, I think it was/ is tougher than the Tanak, which He fulflled, and weren't to be broken, either (Matt 5:17-20). Searcher | ||||||
5 | What did Jesus mean, "obey My commands?" | John 14:21 | DocTrinsograce | 162192 | ||
"Tougher?" Whew! How about "impossible!" Short of divine intervention, no one has the slightest chance of fulfilling any of it. | ||||||
6 | What did Jesus mean, "obey My commands?" | John 14:21 | lionheart | 162197 | ||
Doc, Maybe John 8:31 will shed a little light on John 14:21 here.(Jn 8:31 If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.(NIV) ) I think Searcher was on the right track with his post. Jesus fulfilled it we just gotta do our best to live it which we dont always do. Thats where verses like 1 Jn 1:9 become vitally important on a daily basis along with good healthy doses of repentance every day. If one is not doing this or has never done this then we need to go back and take a good a good look at things again. There is no way we can keep every jot and tittle,But I gotta believe that if the commitment I made to Jesus Christ when I asked Him to be my Lord and Savior was real then I gotta believe also that Jesus also knew that I would not always be up to the task. When Jesus said what he said he had just majorly called the pharisees on the carpet over thier hypocrasy and lip service. Jesus says in Matthew that we are the salt of the earth. Are we still salty or have we lost our saltyness? (I'm not saying are we still saved.) If are not salty we can confees our sin and repent. God has made provision for us to do that and he was trying to get others to do that also except they were not willing to go beyond legalism and lip service and thats the difference. When we look into our hearts and see whats truly there or in the case whats not there then one can begin to answer the question of what Jesus meant when he said obey My commands. I hope this makes this particular subject a little easier to understand. In Christ, lionheart |
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7 | What did Jesus mean, "obey My commands?" | John 14:21 | DocTrinsograce | 162201 | ||
"Now, although no man's heart is changed by moral suasion in itself, yet the way in which the Spirit works in his heart, as far as we can detect it, is instrumentally by a blessed persuasion of the mind. I say not that men are saved by moral suasion, or that this is the first cause, but I think it is frequently the visible means. As to the secret work, who knows how the Spirit works? 'The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but thou canst not tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit;' but yet, as far as we can see, the Spirit makes a revelation of truth to the soul, whereby it seeth things in a different light from what it ever did before, and then the will cheerfully bows that neck which once was stiff as iron, and wears the yoke which once it despised, and wears it gladly, cheerfully, and joyfully. Yet, mark, the will is not gone; the will is treated as it should be treated; man is not acted upon as a machine, he is not polished like a piece of marble; he is not planed and smoothed like a plank of deal; but his mind is acted upon by the Spirit of God, in a manner quite consistent with mental laws. Man is thus made a new creature in Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and his own will is blessedly and sweetly made to yield." --Charles H. Spurgeon | ||||||
8 | What did Jesus mean, "obey My commands?" | John 14:21 | lionheart | 162203 | ||
Doc, Sweet my brother,absolutly sweet. Good stuff,this will stick to ones spiritual ribs. Keep preaching it, lionheart |
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