Love in the Bible is described as both personal (between persons) and also selfless (desiring the best for others). God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” Love is both what God is and what he has done God always acts in love. 1 John 4:8 “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love, v16 says “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. Let us begin by looking at why love is so important and the core through which obedience flows out.Ĭhristian theology stresses the importance of love because God has revealed that he is love.
Jesus is trying to get a very important point across to his disciples, and to anyone who loves him. In view of the whole chapter what does it mean, that “whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me.” In fact in John 14, there are multiple references within this chapter that keeps re-iterating this very point of love and obedience. Jesus explains to them, that the reason He told them what was to come is so that they would believe when it happened. If they kept the word of God, then He, the Father and the Holy Spirit would abide with them and teach them all things. Jesus tells His disciples that He would not leave them comfortless. The final phase of the chapter is a promise for the future. Included in this instruction, He speaks to the the disciples about this very important message and reading that we are focusing on today, that if they love Him, they will keep His commandments and He would ask His Father to send a comforter to them. Jesus tells His disciples that if they asked anything in His name he would do it for them. Then the next phase of the chapter moves to Jesus instructing His disciples. So this chapter begins by Jesus comforting His disciples.
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His heart is full of sorrow for His disciples over His departure. With all this in view, Christ does not think of Himself or the comfort He requires, but He gives comfort to the disciples. Notice at this point in time, the scene is being set for Gethsemane, the denial, the mock trial, the scouring and the cross. Christ tells His disciple “let not your hearts be troubled” (John 14:1). This chapter begins by Jesus comforting the disciples and their troubled hearts. To set the scene around this verse, we must read John 14.
And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” John 14:21 “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me.
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