IF Equal Love

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John 14:15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Beloved of the Lord. Jesus promises every, believer; comfort from five supernatural blessings that the world does not enjoy: (1) a supernatural Helper (Joh_14:16-17); (2) a supernatural life (Joh_14:18-19); (3) a supernatural union (Joh_14:20-25), (4) a supernatural Teacher (Joh_14:26); and (5) a supernatural peace (Joh_14:27-31). Now the key to all of this is Joh_14:15 which tells that these supernatural promises are for those who love Jesus Christ. Please notices that Jesus said “If you love me, He tells us very plainly what we should do, but he never takes means to make us do it. The IF presupposes that we will keep Jesus' words because we love him. The IF also presupposes that if we don’t keep his words, we don’t love him. (Chew on that for a Minute) Listen we obey Jesus out of a oneness of spirit and out of a relationship. In this text, Jesus is talking about discipleship, because he started John 14: 15 with the word IF. If any man will be my disciple, let him deny himself, in order words let every disciple give up his right to himself to me. Beloved the Lord does not give us rules, He makes His standard very clear and if our relationship with Jesus is that of love, we will do what He says without any hesitation. If we hesitate, it is because we love someone or something else more than Jesus, and whatever it is, it's in war with Jesus for our love.

There is a story of a woman who had a husband who kept a list. This list contained twenty-five things he wanted her to do, to be a good wife to him. Every day he took out the list and checked off the things that she completed. Cooking-check! Cleaning-check! Care of the kids-check! At the end of the day, he would let her know how she scored – twenty-three out of twenty-five. Twenty-one out of twenty and so on and so on. This woman was unhappy. She was unhappy because she didn’t get married to be caged to a checklist. the things, she did as a wife were very important and they were necessary. But she had higher hopes for her marriage relationship. After many years, the husband died. The woman felt a weight lifted from her shoulders because she had been for years she had been working for a list. She had been doing her duty and disliking every minute of it, even though the duties themselves were not bad. Two years later, this same woman fell in love with a new guy-a guy who had no lists. He told this woman that all he wanted to do was to love her. He wanted her (to wake up in the morning) knowing that he loved her. In the middle of the day, he wanted to be able to (call and remind her) that he loved her. At night, before they went to bed, he wanted to reassure her that he loved her. He wanted his love for her to be her every wakening thought of her day. He wanted her to know his love, not his lists.

One day she was cleaning the house and saw a piece of paper on a desk. It was the list from the first husband. She began to giggle when she realized that everything written down, all twenty-five duties, were happening naturally in her new marriage. Everything she had hated doing out of the requir

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