Summary
Even if you don't want to do as Jesus commands, even if you don't want to deal with Jesus, you don't have that option. You look at the world religions and you study, and Jesus is there, and they may not want to be friends with Jesus, and they may claim he is not the son of God, but they still have to deal with Jesus. Jesus says, I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. Jesus has made known to you everything He has heard from the Father, everything that you need to know from God about God, about how He views you, feels about you, loves you, has been made known to you through His Word. Jesus has chosen you as His own friend and stands there with you as your advocate walks with you this side of heaven through His holy spirit as your mentor deals with you regularly in a kind and concerning manner and anytime we try to all a rift in the relationship it is mended through the grace and the love and the mercy that we have in our friend Jesus. We are called into this one body with Christ at the head to be in communion with one another in a loving relationship with one another and by His grace and by His spirit He empowers us so that in His command to love one another as He has loved us it is not a burden but it is a shared joy that we are allowed the opportunity to serve our brothers and sisters in need to love our neighbor who has not yet known the love of Jesus Christ and just serve the Lord by serving one another and loving one another by putting the other ahead of the self the if of our relationship with Jesus the if of the friendship that has been answered the if as a conditional has been eliminated because Jesus loves you Jesus claims you and Jesus has sealed you in His spirit offering you choosing you and claiming you as His friend now and forever
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- "If" 10-27-24 — If you would please open your Bibles to the Gospel of John 15th chapter, if you're using a Pew edition of the Bible that can be found on page 96 in the New Testament. We're in the Gospel of John…