Loving Jesus:

John 14:15-17 “...If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you...”

What happens when people love Jesus?

• They keep His commandments.
• The Father gives the Helper.

Who doesn’t get the Helper? Why not?

• The world cannot receive the Spirit.
• The world can’t see or know the Spirit.

John 14:18-21 “...I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him...”

Who loves Jesus?

• Whoever has His commandments and keeps them.

What are the commandments of Jesus?

• In general, all that He said during His earthly ministry.

• Matthew 22:37-40 “...And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets...”

• John 13:34-35 “...A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another...”

What are the benefits of loving Jesus?

• Being loved by the Father.
• Having Jesus manifested.

How are we to love one another?

• “...just as I have loved you...”
• We are to love as Jesus loved.

John 14:23-24 “...Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me...”

How does Jesus manifest Himself to those who keep His word?

• The Father and Son come and dwell with them.

What does failure to keep the words of Jesus indicate?

• That a person does not love Jesus.

John 14:25-26 “...These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you...”

Who is the Helper, and what is He sent to accomplish?

• The Holy Spirit whom the Father sends.
• He teaches all things.
• He brings to remembrance those things that have been taught.

John 14:27-31 “...Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here...”

How does the peace given by Jesus differ from the peace given by the world?

• The world is full of trouble, and the world’s peace requires all trouble to cease.
• Jesus offers peace in the midst of trouble, in the depths of one’s heart.

What trouble were the disciples about to face?

• The loss of their teacher.

What did Jesus expect of them?

• That they would remember what He said and believe.

What did Jesus say about the ‘ruler of this world’?

• He had no claim on Jesus, but Jesus intended to do as the Father commanded.

What do you have to say about the ‘ruler of this world’?

Does he have a claim on you? Are you intent on doing as the Father commands?