Abide In My Love

"As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love." (1)

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." (2)

We need to understand more fully the value of the truths of the word of God and the danger of allowing our minds to be diverted from them by the enemy of our race. The infinite value of the sacrifice required for our redemption reveals the fact that sin is a tremendous evil and it is God's purpose to destroy the evil of sin from our universe. The life of Jesus was the perfect fulfillment of every precept of the law of God. "I have kept My Fathers commandments and abide in His love." (1)

In referring to the law of God in the Old Testament (3), a lawyer asked Jesus, " 'Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?' Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." (4) Here Jesus stated the essence of the Gospel. God's commands are based on the foundation of love and respect for one another.

And Jesus, who is the fulfillment of the law of God, restated it's principles for us. "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you." (5) "Love is the fulfillment of the law." (6)

Learning how to love others as Jesus has loved us is abiding in His love!

1. John 15:9, 10.
2. John 3:16, 17.
3. Exodus 20:2-17.
4. Matthew 22:36-40.
5. John 15:12.
6. Romans 13:10.