Do you show that you are Jesus' friend? (John 15:14-15)
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 20 March 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
John 15:114-15 - You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friends and welcome back to the Morning Mindset. Have you ever thought of your |
| 0:07.8 | Christian faith this way that what you believe will translate into the way you live, so |
| 0:14.3 | in a way belief is life? And so it matters what we believe. We can't just really nearly |
| 0:21.6 | pick anything out there and make it a thing that we're going to hope in and put our trust |
| 0:27.7 | in. It has to be factual, it has to be true, and it has to be based on what God says is true. |
| 0:34.2 | Today as we dig into John 15, we're going to look at something that Jesus reveals in a |
| 0:40.2 | conversation with his disciples about what it means to be a friend of Jesus. Do you like that |
| 0:47.4 | thought? Do you have the warm fuzzies when you hear that idea of being a friend with Jesus? |
| 0:53.3 | Well, it's true and it can be true, but Jesus puts some qualifiers on what it means to be his |
| 0:59.6 | friend. Let's look at it in John 15 verses 14 and 15. Now Jesus has just given his disciples a |
| 1:08.2 | command and it's one of the few commands direct commands that Jesus labels that way and gives |
| 1:13.9 | to his followers while he's on the planet. He says, this is my commandment that you love one |
| 1:19.0 | another as I have loved you. Okay, that's the command. And he goes on in verse 14 and he says, |
| 1:26.2 | you are my friends if you do what I command you. So Jesus is saying, if you love one another, |
| 1:34.9 | the way that I've loved you, then I consider you my friends. And my friends I want to be a friend |
| 1:41.7 | of Jesus. How about you? I want him to say, well done, good and faithful servant. Well done, |
| 1:47.0 | my friend when I see him face to face. I don't want to shirk away an embarrassment or with |
| 1:53.7 | with a lack of any fruit to show in my life. I want to demonstrate through my life that indeed I |
| 2:01.2 | love Jesus in that he is my friend and that I am a friend to him. But Jesus goes on in verse 15 |
| 2:07.8 | and he speaks to his disciples saying no longer do I call you servants for servant does not know |
| 2:15.1 | what his master is doing. But I have called you friends for all that I've heard from my father |
| 2:22.6 | I have made known to you. Now think that through for a moment. Jesus is saying as my 12 followers |
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