“If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love” —John 15:10 Obedience and love are not the same. One is the reason and one is the result. One can be defined merely by action while the other requires affection. One is relational, the other […]
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” —John 14:15 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love.” —John 15:9-10 The key to sanctification is loving Christ. […]
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5) As branches, our purpose is to glorify our Vine. We exist to (1) […]
The chief necessity of the Christian is to abide in Christ. It is our one vital obsession. Everything else in the Christian life is of secondary consequence. The whole of John 15 is designed to glorify the true Vine. Not ‘a’ vine, or even ‘the’ vine, […]
We live in the day of the unprecedented instant. The world has never known instant like we do. We have Google (which in a search for “instant” renders “About 1,610,000,000 results” in 0.24 seconds). We have mobile phones, digital photography, instant messaging, texting, and broadband Internet […]