Reading: John 15:9-17
John 15:10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remains in his love. (vs 10, NIV).
Obey-remains in his love-joy may be complete
Command: Love one another. Servant-friend-master relationship-know master’s business; chose you to bear fruit-fruit that will last.
John 15:9-17
[9]I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love.
[10]If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
[11]“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
[12]My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.
[13]The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them.
[14]And you are my friends if you do what I command you.
[15]I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
[16]You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name.
[17]This, then, is what I command you: love one another.