Brother, my ears are giving me
more trouble than usual, so if you can't hear me back there,
just give me a motion. I'll try to speak louder. Alright,
1 John 4. Our subject is, this is the love
of God. He says in verse 3, 1 John 5
verse 3 says, For this is the love of God. that we keep His commandments,
and His commandments are not grievous. When you read the love
of God, the love of God, it's talking about God's love for
us, not our love for God. You know, when we've looked before
how we saw the faith of Christ, which is Christ's faithfulness
rather than our faith in Christ. This is the love of God. This
is what the love of God accomplishes in us. We've been seeing as we
look at the love of God, we've seen in the last chapter that
God's love makes us love one another. And then we saw that
God's love takes away the fear of judgment, gives us boldness
for the Day of Judgment. And here he's teaching us that
God's love never fails to make us obedient to God's commandments. His love never fails to make
us obedient to God's commandments. Now first of all, the commandment,
the commandment that comes in power that makes us obey. The commandment is from God the
Father given through Christ His Son. Look there at verse 21,
1 John 4, 21. He says, and this commandment
have we from Him. This commandment have we from
Him. This is God the Father's command
given to His people through Christ Jesus the Lord. You remember
we saw that God told Moses, I will raise up a prophet like you from
among your brethren and Christ is that prophet. God told Moses,
I will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them
all that I shall command him." That was after God gave the law
at Mount Sinai. Remember, they saw the mountain
on fire and they ran back and said, Moses, you speak to God
for us. And God said, they've spoken
well. And he said, I'm going to raise
up a prophet like you, Moses, like unto you, and I'm going
to put my command in his mouth and he's going to speak my command.
And when Christ came, He said, I've not spoken of myself, but
the Father which sent me, He gave me a commandment. He gave
me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak.
And He said, and I know that His commandment is life everlasting. His commandment is life everlasting. So whatsoever I speak, therefore,
even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. So first off,
let's understand This is a commandment that the Father gives through
Christ. Through Christ. He's the one
that makes this effectual in us so that we obey His commandment.
Alright? What is the commandment? Look
at the second part of verse 21. He says that he who loveth God
loveth his brother also. Go back up to 1 John 3 and look
at verse 23. This is the law that God writes
on the heart of His people in the new birth. This is the law
right here that He writes on the heart of His people in the
new birth. He said in verse 23, this is His commandment that
we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love
one another as He gave us commandment. which worketh by love." Faith
in Christ, through faith in Christ, we've established the whole law
of God. The law we broke in the garden, our sins been taken away, all
the commandments given at Sinai, though we weren't under it, we
broke all those commandments. And He put all that sin away. He fulfilled everything in the
law for His people. Established the law, magnified
it, honored it. And through faith in Him, that
righteousness is ours. And we've established it. Fully
established it. That's why it says, Believe on
the name of His Son Jesus Christ. And then love. The motive of
the heart is love. We seek Christ's love for us
and it creates a love for Him and our motive is love. It's
not law, it's not legal, it's not threats, it's not terror
or torment, it's love. Faith which worketh by love,
that is the believer's rule of life. You'll have people tell
you the law is Sinai, the believer's rule of life. Listen to this,
Galatians 3.12, the law is not of faith. The law about Sinai
is not of faith. That was a covenant of works.
This do and you shall live. The law is not of faith. Listen
to this. In Jesus Christ neither circumcision
availeth anything nor uncircumcision. Your law keeping or your lack
of law keeping has nothing to do with this. Well, what is it
then? Faith which worketh by love. Faith which worketh by love.
Christ said, I know that my Father's commandment is life everlasting.
You remember what 2 Corinthians 3 told us? It said the law of
Sinai is the ministration of death. It's to minister death. It's to minister condemnation. And in case we don't know what
law he's talking about, he said that law that was written and
engraven in stones. That's the law of Sinai. But
this law we're talking about is life everlasting. That was
a covenant of works. This is a covenant of grace.
We're talking about Christ coming. When God chose His people, here's
why it's a covenant of grace. It's not God does something and
we do something. The covenant of grace, God does
it all. He does it all. God the Father,
when He chose His people and gave us to Christ, He trusted
Christ to do the whole work. Ephesians 1 says we're going
to be to the praise of His glory who first trusted Christ. That's
God the Father. He first trusted Christ. And
Christ came forth and He did all the work. He did everything
He promised and told us at the end of the work, it is finished.
I did it. It's finished. It's accomplished.
And because we're dead in sins, He comes to us and He brings
us under the gospel and the Spirit gives us life. And when He does
this, Christ gives us this command. He says, come unto me. all you
that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. He
says, take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and
lowly in heart. You shall find rest unto your
souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. And with
that commandment comes the power. When He commands, There's power
in that command. I could stand here and I could
tell you, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ. And I could say it and say it
and say it. And nothing is going to happen
in your heart. But when He speaks it, it comes in power and you
will obey. Everybody who hears His command,
you won't hear it audibly. You won't hear it audibly. You
may not even know you've heard it at first. But you're going
to find yourself believing everything that's being said. And whereas
the Scriptures used to be a jumbled up puzzle to you, you'll start
looking in the Scriptures and you'll say, there it is. It says
it right there. How did I never see that before?
And what's happened, Christ has spoken to you in power. And then
when He does this, brethren, He makes you behold how He loved
us first. That's when your heart starts
overflowing. You see what a sinner you are,
what a wretch you are, and yet you see He loved you first. You
didn't love Him first, He loved you first. And when you find
that out, when He reveals that to His child, your heart overflows
in love. Then you want to do something
for Him, anything for Him. And He gives you this light and
easy yoke. He says, a new commandment I give unto you, that you love
one another. as I've loved you, that you also
love one another. That's light and easy, isn't
it? Believe on me. You're righteous. You're accepted
of God. Everything's finished. Nothing
else to be done to part, to leave this earth and go and be with
the Lord right now. Now, while you're here, love
one another. Love one another. So that's the
command. Now thirdly, let's go back to
our text here and he says our obedience to his command is because
we've been born of God. He says in verse 1, Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. And everyone
that loveth him that begat. made us to be born again. Everyone
that loves Him that loveth Him also that is begotten of Him. Now we have no more to do with
the new birth than we had to do with our first birth. We have
nothing to do with this new birth. Ephesians 2 says we were dead
in sins, but God, He quickened us. He gave us life. We have
nothing to do with it. John 1 said, "...as many as received
Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even
to them that believe on His name, which were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
God." We have to be born of God. And faith is not of us. We don't
muster up faith. Some people will say, well, He
gives you life, But then you have to decide to believe or
reject Him. No. No. This comes in power. This command comes in power.
And He gives you the faith. Scripture says, by grace are
you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the
gift of God. It's not of works. lest any man
boast. If he left anything to us, we
would steal the glory that belongs to God. We would boast in ourselves
when we should be boasting only in the Lord. So, it's not of
us. The life He gives is of Him. The faith He gives, repentance
He gives, everything is of the Lord in this thing of salvation. And what John is declaring here,
do you believe God is sovereign? Do you believe He's sovereign
in salvation? You would be surprised, brethren, how many people, people
who say they believe He's sovereign in salvation, but by their actions
and by what they do prove they don't really believe that. They
don't really believe it. John's declaring here God is
sovereign in our salvation. He's declaring this is what God
works in all His people. Right here. He does not fail
to do this in all His people. Each and every one of His elect
shall be brought to believe on Christ. And when He made a new
nature in you, there's going to be love. There's going to
be love. Whosoever. See that? Whosoever. That means all of them. Whoever
it is that believes on Him. The reason He does it is He's
been born of God. That's the only way. He was born
of God. This is so of everybody that
truly believes on Him. The reason is they were born
of God. Christ said when He's given, when you've been born
of God, He said there is no doubt that we'll love Him. No doubt
about it. Remember He told the Pharisees,
if you were of God, if you were born of God, you would love Me. You would. No doubt about it,
because God successfully works this in His people. And everyone
that loveth Him, don't you like that? He says, whosoever believeth
that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone that loveth
Him. It seems like it should say,
and everyone that believeth Him. The first part says, whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. It looks like
it ought to say, and everyone that believeth him, that begat. But you see, John almost is interchanging
love and faith because they go together. In this life, love
and faith must be together. And they're always together.
But listen to this, everyone that loveth him that begat loveth
him also that's begotten of him. Everyone. Everyone that's born
of God, everyone that's been given this love of God, everyone
that's begotten of him loves their brethren that are begotten
of him. John is so dogmatic about this. He said there in verse
20, If a man say, I love God and hateth his brother, he's
a liar. It's just that simple. For he that loveth not his brother
whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Loving your brother is the easier part because you can see them.
That doesn't take faith to love your brethren. You see Him. It takes faith to love God. You don't see Him. But everyone that loveth Him
that begat loveth Him also that's begotten of Him. Now try to get
a hold of what Josh is saying here. Think about this. Look
at the believer sitting next to you. That is a child of God. Think about that. Some of you sitting here have
children here. You know, I wouldn't do anything
to your children. You know why? I love you. I love you, so I love your children.
I'm not going to hurt your children, do anything to your children.
Those are your children. Well, every believer sitting
here is a child of God, born of God, a child of God. And if we love God, if we've
been born of God, and we love God, we will love His children. That's just so. We will love
His children. And charity, that love that is
of God, never faileth. It never faileth. I don't understand why folks
that don't want to be with brethren here Why do they want to go to
heaven? That's all that's going to be
is being with brethren. Constantly. All the time. God's
people love now and we're going to love forever. This is never
going to end. It never faileth. Never. That's why I go back over to
1 John 2. This is why John declared this
so dogmatically. Look at verse 19. They went out
from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us,
they would, no doubt, have continued with us. But they went out, that
they might be made manifest, but they were not all of us.
You know how many people, you know, since 1985 that I've had
any spiritual sense about me, Do you know how many people I've
seen come and go? It's been a lot of them. A lot
of them. People that acted so zealous
and like the gospel was the greatest thing they'd ever heard and they're
just going to always be there and then one day they just leave.
But you know what else I've seen? There's a whole bunch of them.
Thank God plants and they never go anywhere. I know some brethren
that they were younger back in the early 2000s and they go to
every conference. I'd see them at every conference.
I went down to Marvin's last year. I hadn't seen them in a
while. I went down to Marvin's last
year. There they are sitting on the gospel. They've just gotten
too many infirmities to be able to travel but they're still sitting
there listening to the gospel. There's no doubt. He said, no
doubt they're going to continue. Now how do we know that we love
the children of God? Look at 1 John 5.2. By this we know that we love
the children of God. Now what would you think is going
to come next? Now look what he said. When we
love God and keep His commandments. That's how we know we love the
children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.
Now some might put on a show of love, but it not be the love
of God. He's saying, you know, some might
have natural love or they might show love for personal gain or
some other vain reasons. Eventually, usually it ceases
because they just can't keep up the show. Or something else
comes along that is more profitable for them and they go after that,
you know, they can't keep up the charade. But in those that
God has first loved, wherever God has first loved, and He's
birthed you again, and He's put a love in your heart. Wherever
He's done that, He makes us really love Him.
Really love Him. I know we don't speak about our
love, but the Scriptures do, and we do love Him. We do love
Him. Now, we're not talking about
the quality of His love and the quantity of His love, but we
love Him. If we didn't have sinful flesh,
there would be perfect love for Him. We'd have perfect love for
Him. But we do love Him. And when you love Him, you truly
desire to please Him. When you love somebody, you want
to please them. And when you love God, when He's
given you a love and you love God, you want to please Him by
doing whatever He tells you to do. That's just so. That's just what He does. It makes you want to obey Him.
It's not to obtain a righteousness. That's not what he's saying.
Our motivation is because Christ has made us righteous and He's
made us holy. He's made us see what great love
He's loved us with. That's what motivates us. That's
what he's talking about. By this we know that we love
the children of God when we love God and keep His commandments.
Listen to what Christ said. John 14, 21. He said, He that
hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. Whoever has my commandments and
keeps them, he it is that loveth me. He said, If a man love me,
he will keep my words. He said, If he that loveth me
not, he keepeth not my sayings. John said, ìBy this we know that
we love the children of God when we love God and keep His commandments.î
And God our Savior said, ìThis is my commandment.î Here it is,
ìThat you love one another as I have loved you.î ìGreater love
hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.î
Heís saying this, ìGreater love hath no man than Christ.î who
laid down His life for His friends. And He said, You are My friends,
if you do whatsoever I command you. You're going to prove you've
been elected by God, you're going to prove you've been redeemed
by God, you're going to prove you've been born of God, you're
going to prove you've been kept by God, you're going to prove
that God's put His love in you if you keep His commandments. He said, by this we know that
we love the children of God when we really love God and we really
want to keep His commandments. Now here's what he's saying.
This is the short, the simple version of that. He's saying
love is only true when it's of God and when the motivation of
the heart is Christ's love for us. That's what he's saying.
When you really love God and that's the motive of your heart
is love. That's when you really love your
brethren. You see, a person could do all the same things that a
believer does outwardly in an expression of love toward brethren. They could do the same exact
thing. One of them is doing it because he's trying to indebt
God, he's trying to earn a righteousness and put on a show and make you
think something that's not so. He's not loving the brethren.
The other one is doing it solely because the motive of his heart
is love. He loves God and he wants to
keep his commandment. God said that one is loving his
brethren. You get what he is saying? Alright,
here is the last thing. The love of God always accomplishes
obedience in all His people. It always does. He says there
in verse 3, all this is so because this is the love of God that
we keep His commandments and His commandments are not grievous.
He first loved us. You look back up there, verse
19. We love Him because He first
loved us. He first loved us and thereby
we love Him. God's love is perfected in us,
thereby we love one another. And Christ said, as we keep His
commandments, when you love Him, when He's put this love in your
heart now, He says, you're going to keep My commandments. And
He said, and as you keep My commandments, My Father now will come to you
and will abide in you and I'll manifest Myself to you in the
Gospel and in other ways. I'll manifest Myself to you.
And what's that going to make you do? Love Him and love your
brethren. You see, He's saying this is
a unity thing. It's a bond that's unbreakable. When He first loves you and puts
love in you, you're going to love Him and you're going to
desire to keep His commandments. And as you do, He says, I'm going
to manifest myself to you and that's going to make you love
Him more and make you love your brethren more. Now, what is included
in Christ's commandment to love our brethren? And when he does
this, let me say this too, when he does this, the commandment
is not grievous anymore. What does that mean, grievous? You young people here, you don't
really want to come here. I know that. You don't want to
come here. Your mom and dad makes you come
and you come, but really and truly if you had your way, you
wouldn't be here. It's grievous to you. I know. It used to be grievous to me
too. I didn't want to go either. But now I want to go. I want
to be in the house of the Lord now. That's what he's talking
about. Now these things that Christ
says do, they're not grievous at all. At one time, I heard
the preacher say, believe on Christ, and that was grievous
to me. I couldn't believe on him. I didn't want to believe
on him. Now, no problem at all. I want to believe on him. I pray,
Lord, help me believe on you more. What's included in Christ's
commandment to love our brethren? Well, when you're reading the
Bible, and all of these commands that you come across in the epistles,
in the New Testament, That's all Christ's commandments. Everything
it says there is Christ's commandments to us. That's the rule we're
under. And every bit of it is just for our good. That's all
it is. And if we love Him, this is what
He's saying, if the love of God is in us, we want to obey Him. That's our desire to do whatever
He says in this book. I want to show you a few examples.
Go to Ephesians 4. Now, we love one another in our
union together as the church of God under the gospel of Christ. This is the context of loving
one another. In our union together as the
church of God under the gospel of Christ. And the reason that
this is it is because this is the means God has ordained to
save His people. When He says He pleased God to
save His people, it doesn't mean just that first hour when He
gives you faith and brings you to confess Him and all that.
It means every day from then on. to the end. This is how he's
saving us through the preaching of the word. This is how he's
going to call out his lost sheep through this word. This is the
context in which we love one another. It doesn't mean that
when we go out of here we don't love each other. It means you
are the church of God, not this building. And we're together,
we love each other. When we're apart, we love each
other. When we meet at one another's
house, whatever. This is the context of it though,
as his church, as his body together. Now, after praying, you remember
at the end of Ephesians 3, he prayed that God would root and
ground them in love. He prayed that they might behold
the love of Christ that passes knowledge and be filled with
the fullness of God. Now listen to what he says, why
he said that. Ephesians 4.1, knowing God to do exceeding abundantly
above all that we ask or think. He says, I therefore, the prisoner
of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation
wherewith you're called, with all lowliness and meekness, with
longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. All those things
he just mentioned, that's the spirit, that's the heart of love.
That's how we love, right there, in lowliness and meekness, with
long-suffering. You suffer long. It means what
it says. It's not something that's necessarily
pleasant with your brother. You're suffering, but you suffer
long. You bear with him. You forbear
with him. in love. Listen, charity suffereth
long, charity is kind, charity envieth not, charity vaulteth
not itself, is not puffed up. All these things are in the heart.
You get that? It doesn't behave itself unseemly. That's outward. It seeketh not
her own. It's not selfish. That's inward.
It's not easily provoked. Thinketh no evil. rejoiceth not
in iniquity, but rejoiceth in truth, beareth all things, believeth
all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things, charity
never faileth. See, that's what he's saying
here. He didn't give that long a list of things, but he just
said there in Ephesians 4. And you remember Christ, how
forbearing and how long-suffering He was with the apostles. They
walked with Him all that time, and they didn't really know what
He was going to do on the cross. They were saved. He had saved
them. He had called them. But they didn't really understand
what He was going to do on the cross. They still thought, even
after He was resurrected, they still thought He was going to
restore the kingdom to Israel in this earth. But did Christ
lose His patience with them and say, well, if you don't believe
this fact, you're lost. No. He said, there's many things
I have to say to you, but you can't bear them now. But when
the Spirit's come, He'll lead you into all truth. He'll glorify
me. You see, what we learn by that
looking at Christ, what we learn is faith must be involved with
our love for one another. You have to believe Christ and
trust your brethren to Christ to teach them and edify them
and build them up and make them to stand and keep them standing
and keep them planting. You can't love them otherwise.
We can't love one another unless we trust in one another to Christ.
When a man loses his patience and, you know, gets offended
about something and forsakes the brethren and forsakes the
gospel, you don't believe God's suffering. If you believe God's
sovereign, trust Him to teach your brother and be long-suffering
with him and forbear with him. And this is what we're called
to do. And this is what God's people do. If faith and love
are intertwined, look here at verse 3. Endeavoring to keep
the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Why? Because we're
one. There's one body and one Spirit,
even as you're called in one hope. of your calling, one Lord,
one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above
all and through all and in you all. My brother and I are members
of the same body. And he said, that I can't say
to the hand, I have no need of you. Or again, the head to the
feet, I have no need of you. I said, no, but those members
of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary. That means every one of you together
are necessary. I can't say, you know, because
I'm the pastor, this would make me a better illustration. What
if one day I just said, well, I'm just not necessary. I won't
go. Well, it's the same for you. We're all necessary because we're
one. You wouldn't just lop off some
part of your body, would you? Say, well, I don't need that.
We're necessary. Look here. But unto every one
of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of
Christ. There's another reason we can't be anything but long-suffering. Because if any of us has grace,
it's because Christ gave it to us and He only gives you the
measure He's pleased to give. I can't expect a babe in Christ
to act like a mature believer because Christ hasn't given him
that grace yet. Look on right here. Where are
we using this grace? Look at verse 11. He gave some
apostles and prophets and evangelists and some pastors and teachers
for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the minister,
for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come in
the unity, the unity, the unity of the faith and of the knowledge
of the Son of God to Christ's body's complete He said, Behold
how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together
in unity. It's the unity of the faith. And God chose this means in wisdom
for the safety of His people. Look at verse 14. That we henceforth
be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with
every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness
whereby they lie and wait to see. This is for our protection. But speaking the truth in love,
we may grow up into Him in all things which is the head, even
Christ." Now watch this sovereign work that Christ accomplishes.
From whom, from Christ, the whole body is fitly joined together
and compacted. God said, I'm going to plant
my people and they're going to dwell in a place of their own
and move no more. He said, those that be planted
in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of our
God. In every local church where he has his people, he plants
you fitly, framed together and compacted so you can't move and
part at all. Look back there, he says, verse
16, And every joint supplies what's needed, that means every
member, according to Christ's effectual working in the measure
of every part. According to Christ's effectually
working in you, and you, and you, and you, and you. Everybody
supplies what everybody needs because Christ is working in
us all. And what's the result? He makes
increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. And so you know what he tells
us? He said, let us draw near with a true heart, full assurance.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith because he is faithful
that promise. That means we are going to do
all this depending entirely upon God. And he says, and let us
not forsake Let us consider one another to provoke unto love
and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together
as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another so much
the more as you see the day approaching. Because if we sin willfully after
we've heard this gospel and we go out and part with Christ,
part with His people, there's no more offering, there's no
more sacrifice for sin. Just a fearful looking for of
judgment. I can't hold fast my profession. I can't consider you. I can't
provoke you to love and good works. I can't exhort you if
I disobey Christ and sin willfully and forsake assembling together
with you. I can't do that, any of that, if I'm not here with
you. Imagine if everybody, every believer
said, well, I don't have to be there. They won't miss me. I'm
just going to go. There wouldn't be anybody. John said in that first chapter,
he's given us the fellowship with the saints, fellowship with
the Father, fellowship with the Son, and we walk in light. We
walk together, right here together. Go to 1 Thessalonians 5. I'm
going to read you one more thing and I'll be done. In the second
chapter, you remember he said, don't forsake this gospel for
the world, don't love the world. He's saying to us, don't forsake
your brethren, don't forsake Christ for the world. He's saying,
don't arrange assembling together with your brethren and the things
that are needful in the church, don't arrange that around your
life in the world. Arrange whatever is going on
in the world around this. Don't ever look for a place to
work and then go, well, now we'll see if there's a church there.
That's not giving Christ the preeminent. Find a church and
then say, now we'll see if there's a job there. You see, some people
in this world have never done that. They never had it in that
order. It's always been living for the world and then just giving
God the scraps. Look at this, 1 John 5, 8. I'm
just going to read a good bit of this, but it tells you what
these things are. What's involved in loving brethren?
Let us who are of the day be sober, verse 8, putting on the
breastplate of faith and love. This covers the heart, faith
and love. And for a helmet, the hope of
salvation. For God has not appointed us
to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ who
died for us that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together
with Him. Wherefore, here's love, comfort
yourselves together. and edify one another, even as
also you do. And we beseech you, brethren,
to know them which labor among you, and are over you in the
Lord, and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly, and
love for their work's sake, and be at peace among yourselves.
That's talking about pastors. And he says, now we exhort you,
brethren, warn them that are unruly, warn them, Comfort the
feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient toward all men, see
that none render evil for evil unto any man, but ever follow
that which is good, both among yourselves and to all men. Rejoice
evermore, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks for
this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench
not the spirit, despise not prophesying, preaching, prove all things,
hold fast that which is good, abstain from all appearance of
evil. That means if it appears to have
just a little bit of untruth in it, abstain from it. Whatever the message is you hear
and it sounds just awful little bit, abstain from it. That's
what he's talking about. And the very God of peace sanctify
you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit, soul, and body
be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it. That's what he's talking about.
You go through the New Testament, read the epistles, everything
they said, they got it directly from Christ. You can read John
and then go back over and read John's gospel and everything
he's writing, he got it from Christ. And if we love Him, we
want to keep His commandments. And that's what His love creates
in His people. Amen.