THE ADVENT TRUTH
September 4th
So many try to twist John 14:15 into meaning anything except what Jesus plainly said: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” They’ll argue that He wasn’t referring to the Ten Commandments but only to “His teachings.” But ask yourself: What commandments did Jesus have apart from His Father’s law? He Himself said, “I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love” (John 15:10). He didn’t come to erase or replace God’s law, but to magnify it and show its true spiritual depth (Isaiah 42:21).
When people claim Jesus wasn’t referring to the Ten Commandments, they run into a huge problem: the New Testament repeatedly links love to obedience to God’s law. John, the very writer of this Gospel, clarifies in his epistle: “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous” (1 John 5:3). Paul says, “Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God” (1 Corinthians 7:19). Revelation points to the saints who “keep the commandments of God, and have the faith of Jesus” (Revelation 14:12).
Which commandments are these? Jesus summed them up as love to God and love to man (Matthew 22:37–40), but those two principles rest squarely on the Ten Commandments: the first four showing love to God, the last six showing love to neighbor. Remove the Ten Commandments, and those principles lose their foundation.
Even Christ’s words in Matthew 5 leave no doubt: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law… Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law” (Matthew 5:17–18). Heaven and earth are still here. God’s law still stands.
So when Jesus says, “If ye love me, keep my commandments,” He is calling us back to covenant loyalty, to show love not with empty words, but with obedience. Love without obedience is sentiment. Obedience without love is legalism. But love that obeys—that is true Christianity.
The real question is: do you love Jesus enough to obey Him—or do you love your excuses more?
September 4th
So many try to twist John 14:15 into meaning anything except what Jesus plainly said: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” They’ll argue that He wasn’t referring to the Ten Commandments but only to “His teachings.” But ask yourself: What commandments did Jesus have apart from His Father’s law? He Himself said, “I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love” (John 15:10). He didn’t come to erase or replace God’s law, but to magnify it and show its true spiritual depth (Isaiah 42:21).
When people claim Jesus wasn’t referring to the Ten Commandments, they run into a huge problem: the New Testament repeatedly links love to obedience to God’s law. John, the very writer of this Gospel, clarifies in his epistle: “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous” (1 John 5:3). Paul says, “Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God” (1 Corinthians 7:19). Revelation points to the saints who “keep the commandments of God, and have the faith of Jesus” (Revelation 14:12).
Which commandments are these? Jesus summed them up as love to God and love to man (Matthew 22:37–40), but those two principles rest squarely on the Ten Commandments: the first four showing love to God, the last six showing love to neighbor. Remove the Ten Commandments, and those principles lose their foundation.
Even Christ’s words in Matthew 5 leave no doubt: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law… Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law” (Matthew 5:17–18). Heaven and earth are still here. God’s law still stands.
So when Jesus says, “If ye love me, keep my commandments,” He is calling us back to covenant loyalty, to show love not with empty words, but with obedience. Love without obedience is sentiment. Obedience without love is legalism. But love that obeys—that is true Christianity.
The real question is: do you love Jesus enough to obey Him—or do you love your excuses more?
THE ADVENT TRUTH
September 4th
So many try to twist John 14:15 into meaning anything except what Jesus plainly said: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” They’ll argue that He wasn’t referring to the Ten Commandments but only to “His teachings.” But ask yourself: What commandments did Jesus have apart from His Father’s law? He Himself said, “I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love” (John 15:10). He didn’t come to erase or replace God’s law, but to magnify it and show its true spiritual depth (Isaiah 42:21).
When people claim Jesus wasn’t referring to the Ten Commandments, they run into a huge problem: the New Testament repeatedly links love to obedience to God’s law. John, the very writer of this Gospel, clarifies in his epistle: “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous” (1 John 5:3). Paul says, “Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God” (1 Corinthians 7:19). Revelation points to the saints who “keep the commandments of God, and have the faith of Jesus” (Revelation 14:12).
Which commandments are these? Jesus summed them up as love to God and love to man (Matthew 22:37–40), but those two principles rest squarely on the Ten Commandments: the first four showing love to God, the last six showing love to neighbor. Remove the Ten Commandments, and those principles lose their foundation.
Even Christ’s words in Matthew 5 leave no doubt: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law… Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law” (Matthew 5:17–18). Heaven and earth are still here. God’s law still stands.
So when Jesus says, “If ye love me, keep my commandments,” He is calling us back to covenant loyalty, to show love not with empty words, but with obedience. Love without obedience is sentiment. Obedience without love is legalism. But love that obeys—that is true Christianity.
The real question is: do you love Jesus enough to obey Him—or do you love your excuses more?
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