LOVING the KING of kings (Ref. 39)
29 December 2017 (From the desk of Celia Joy Martins)
IN the WORDS of YAHSHUA MESSIAH:
John 14:15 "IF you [REALLY] LOVE Me, you WILL KEEP (OBEY) My COMMANDMENTS."
Yahshua's words above was spoken only hours before the greatest event - the greatest ACT OF LOVE in ALL HISTORY was about to take place. Messiah was about to LAY DOWN HIS VERY OWN LIFE for His "SHEEP" as in John 10:15 ("Even as [truly as] the Father knows Me and I also know the Father - I AM GIVING MY [VERY OWN] LIFE AND LAYING IT DOWN ON BEHALF of the SHEEP.")
Yahshua's words were extraordinary if we take in consideration that HE CAME for the "WORLD" so that ANYONE WHO BELIEVES in HIM WOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. (John 3:16), but MORE SPECIFICALLY HE CAME for the LOST SHEEP - those WHO BELONG to Him.
In John 14:22 "Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, Master, how is it that You will MANIFEST YOURSELF to US, and NOT to the WORLD?" onto which Yahshua answered him with "... if a person really loves Me, he WILL KEEP My word [obey My teaching] ..."
THE WORLD and the SHEEP:
Yahshua made it clear that there is a difference between the "WORLD" and the "SHEEP" - the "world" that hates Him and the "SHEEP" (His people) that LOVE Him and IF a person REALLY LOVES Him, he WILL KEEP HIS COMANDMENTS. LOVE PRECEDES and GIVES RISE to KEEPING His TEACHINGS (COMMANDMENTS.)
HIS SHEEP - in an INTIMATE LOVING RELATIONSHIP with Yah:
THIS LOVE that YAHSHUA was talking about - is a PERSONAL, INTIMATE, AFFECTIONATE, COMMITTED, LOVE that COMES from the FATHER - FLOWS FROM HIM - FROM His THRONEROOM - AND INTO His CHILDREN AS A GIFT of HIS SPIRIT - a LOVE that the WORLD CAN NOT RECEIVE for the WORLD has ANOTHER LOVE and the WORLD'S has ANOTHER 'FATHER' - the EVIL GENIUS PRINCE (Satan) himself - John 14:30; John 16:11.
John 14:21 "The PERSON who HAS My COMMANDS and KEEPS THEM is the ONE who [REALLY] LOVES Me; and WHOEVER [REALLY] LOVES Me will be LOVED by the FATHER, and I TOO WILL LOVE HIM and WILL SHOW (REVEAL, MANIFEST) Myself to him. [I WILL MAKE MYSELF be CLEARLY SEEN by him and MAKE Myself REAL to him].
John 14:23 "Yahshua answered, IF a person [REALLY] LOVES Me, HE WILL KEEP MY WORD [OBEY My TEACHING]; and My Father will LOVE him, and WE WILL COME to him and MAKE OUR HOME [abode, SPECIAL DWELLING PLACE] with him.
:24 Anyone WHO DOES NOT [REALLY] LOVE Me DOES NOT OBSERVE AND OBEY My teaching."
John 14:24b "... the TEACHING which you HEAR and HEED IS NOT Mine, but [COMES] from the FATHER Who SENT Me."
John 14:28-29 "You heard Me tell you, I AM GOING AWAY AND I AM COMING BACK to you. If you [REALLY] LOVED Me, you would have been glad, because I am going to the Father; for the Father is GREATER AND MIGHTIER than I am. And now I have told you this BEFORE IT OCCURS, so that WHEN IT DOES TAKE PLACE you MAY BELIEVE AND HAVE FAITH IN and RELY ON Me."
THE WORLD'S HAS an EVIL GENIUS PRINCE AS A RULER:
John 14:30-31 "I will not talk with you much more, for the PRINCE (EVIL GENIUS, RULER OF THE WORLD is COMING. And he has NO CLAIM on Me [... he has NO POWER OVER Me]. But [Satan IS COMING and] I do as the Father HAS COMMANDED Me, so that the WORLD MAY KNOW [be CONVINCED] that I LOVE the Father and that I DO ONLY WHAT the FATHER HAS INSTRUCTED Me to DO. [I ACT IN FULL AGREEMENT with HIS ORDERS.]"
John 15:10 "IF you KEEP My COMMANDMENTS [IF YOU CONTINUE to OBEY MY INSTRUCTIONS], YOU WILL ABIDE IN My LOVE and LIVE ON IN IT, just as I HAVE OBEYED My FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS AND LIVE ON IN HIS LOVE.
:16 You have NOT CHOSEN Me, but I HAVE CHOSEN YOU and I HAVE APPOINTED YOU [I HAVE PLANTED you] that YOU MIGHT GO AND BEAR FRUIT and KEEP ON BEARING, and that YOUR FRUIT MAY BE LASTING [that it MAY REMAIN, ABIDE] ...
:18 IF THE WORLD HATES YOU, know that it HATED Me BEFORE it HATED you.
:19 If you belong to the world, the WORLD WOULD TREAT you WITH AFFECTION and WOULD LOVE YOU AS ITS OWN. But BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT OF THE WORLD [no LONGER ONE WITH IT] but I HAVE CHOSEN (SELECTED) you OUT of the world, the world HATES (detests) you."
Thank You YAHSHUA for MANIFESTING the NAME of the FATHER and REVEALING Him to us. (John 17:6) Thank You for REVEALING YOURSELF to US so that we MAY KNOW YOU AND WALK WITH YOU and BE IN AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP with YOU - our wonderful KING (John 14:21). Thank You Messiah for COMPLETING the WORK that the Father has given You here on earth (John 17:4) for DISCLOSING to US the MEANING of ETERNAL LIFE that COMES through KNOWING and RECOGNIZING YAHWEH as the FATHER and YOU our WONDERFUL REDEEMER as the SON and for GIVING US YOUR SPIRIT - the SPIRIT OF ALL TRUTH. Help us then O Abba to OBEY AND KEEP YOUR WORD - YOUR COMMANDMENTS - and STAY on the PATH of TRUTH. In Yahshua's name. Amen.