I guess it is in my DNA to be opposed to the idea of Royalty. In this case, they are the most excellent, most wonderful guests one could host Royalty that makes it feel like old home week on the one hand and their fearful, holy, awesome inspiring presence on the other. We can join with Judas in his question, “How you gonna do that?” Jesus lays it out, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” When someone moves into your home, you know it. And Jesus will love us and manifest himself to us. When we love Jesus, we are loved by the Father. This is a fantastic picture of Divine/human fellowship. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me.”Īnd he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Being the third person of the Trinity, he has always been in fellowship with the Father and the Son, but when we fall in love with Jesus and then obey Jesus, the Holy Spirit fills us and draws us into that beautiful Trinitarian fellowship of God. He enters into our fellowship with Jesus and the Father. He is our helper, our counselor, our advocate. The Spirit is promised to those who love and obey Jesus. It is not a religious duty to be fulfilled and then receive the reward of the presence and power of the Spirit. “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” Proper obedience flows out of a heart of love for Jesus. Then what is the relationship between obedience and the presence and power of the Holy Spirit in our lives? But obedience is essential to a Spirit-filled life. Our obedience to Jesus does not earn the joy of walking in the Spirit. Regardless of which camp you may find yourself in, it is clear to me that walking in the power and love of the Holy Spirit involves two key elements, love, and obedience. This issue of how we relate to the Holy Spirit can make fellowship between believers difficult. For this camp, there is the initial indwelling of the Holy Spirit when one is born again (this is identical to the first camp above), and after being born again, one seeks the “infilling” or “baptism in the Holy Spirit.” Depending again on the Christian camp one lives in, this may be evidenced by speaking in tongues, or it may not. In that sense, every believer is “Spirit-filled.” On the other end of the spectrum are those who believe that being filled with the Holy Spirit is a second special work of grace that happens after one has been born again. For some, it simply means that a person has been born-again, and the Holy Spirit lives within them. Terms like “Spirit-filled” or “to be filled with the Spirit” are hot terms among Christians of various stripes. Obedience to Jesus is required if one wants to live a life filled with the Holy Spirit. … 21 And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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