189:: Love for Christ MOTIVATES obedience (John 14:15) || The Morning Mindset Daily Christian Devotional
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 6 July 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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📜 TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: John 14: 15
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning my live build change family. This is Carrie Green and it is time for the morning mindset. Once again, and I hope by now you understand and you believe in the need the very |
| 0:16.7 | desperate need each of us has to get our minds set right at the beginning of each day. You know I've said it before and I still believe |
| 0:26.0 | it that overnight we leak while we're sleep. We leak things like positivity and faith and encouragement and truth and it is our |
| 0:37.6 | responsibility every morning to refill our minds with those things so that we can live the day in the light of that |
| 0:44.8 | truth that God has said is true about us and true about him. So we've been doing that |
| 0:50.4 | most recently here in John Chapter 14 and we made it all the way |
| 0:54.8 | to verse number 15 and Jesus makes a very interesting statement here and it's so interesting it's probably the only thing we're going to |
| 1:05.5 | be able to talk about today here's what he says he says if you love me you will |
| 1:11.6 | keep my commandments. Now I think it's important that we keep the order of |
| 1:17.6 | this sentence in its proper place. He's not saying if you keep my commandments then you will be loving me. That's not what he's saying. |
| 1:28.0 | See the first thing is that we love him. If you love me, if you love me, love comes first. |
| 1:37.0 | It's our devotion to Christ, our admiration for him, |
| 1:42.0 | our delight in him, that motivates our obedience. |
| 1:47.0 | You see it's not the other way around. A lot of people think that if they perform well for Jesus if they do the right things if they keep the rules |
| 1:57.3 | so to speak or do what the leadership at their church says they should do as a quote unquote |
| 2:02.0 | good Christian then they will receive something |
| 2:06.6 | from Jesus and they will truly prove that they love him. |
| 2:11.5 | But Jesus is not saying that. |
| 2:15.0 | Jesus is saying, love, genuine love for him produces obedience. |
| 2:21.0 | You see, obedience flows out of it. It's not a begrudging thing and it's not a list of rules or regulations or criteria that we have to adhere to. There's no have to about it. There is only want to about it. |
| 2:37.6 | Because we love Jesus. You see if we in human relationships were to say to someone who we are in an intimate relationship with, say it's a spouse, if we were to say to them, |
| 2:51.0 | I'm doing this good thing for you because it's my duty. You see that's |
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