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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; What a wonderful vine that must be whose branches glorify God! Who ever heard of such a thing? The very branches do this, and they do it by bearing fruit. How this ought to excite us to desire to bear Christian graces, and to do Christian service, and to endure with resignation the Lord’s...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As the Father hath loved me,.... As his own Son, and as Mediator, from everlasting; and in time, in his state of humiliation, throughout the course of his obedience, and under all his sufferings; which he testified more than once by a voice from heaven; which he showed by concealing nothing from him as Mediator, by giving all things into his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. How wondrously Jesus loves those who are truly, his! As the Father loved him, so does he love us: that is, without beginning, without measure, without variation, without end. “Continue ye in my love;” that is, live in it, enjoy it, drink it in, be influenced by it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: Matchless, matchless word! The love of God the Father to the Son is the immeasurable measure of the love of Christ to his people,-without beginning, without end, without change, without bounds. As the Father loved Christ, so has Christ loved us. Joh_15:9. Continue ye in my love. Abide in it, live...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. As truly as the Father loves the Son, so truly does Jesus love us; nay, more than that, in the same manner as the Father loved the Son, — that is, without beginning, without cessation, without change, without end, without measure, — so does Jesus love us. There are many vast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: Oh, drink this nectar down! It is as when Cleopatra dissolved the pearl into a single draught; for here is the choicest pearl of truth that ever was dissolved into a single verse to be a delicious draught for his people to drink: “As the Father hath loved me,” — as surely as the Father hath loved...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Continue ye in my love. If ye keep any commandments, ye shall abide in my love; Note this point of the Lord’s discipline; — not that Christ ever casts away his people, but that he does take from them the sweet sense of his love, the realization of it, if they are disobedient to him, and keep not his commandments.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love,.... Not that their continuance in the heart's love and affection of Christ depended upon their observation of his commands; for as the keeping of them is not the cause or reason of the saints having an interest in the love of Christ, so it is not the cause or reason of their abiding in it; but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; “You shall live in the realization of my love if you live in obedience to me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. For, when Christ is not pleased with us, we are not likely to have joy in ourselves, Oh, that we may so live as to please Christ!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love. Ye shall know it; ye shall live in it; it shall be the atmosphere you breathe.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you. Christ would have his people happy; happy, however, with a holy joy, which is not, therefore, a dim and second-rate joy. It is the very joy of Christ, God’s people are to enjoy.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. When Christ cannot rejoice in us, you may rest assured that we cannot rejoice in ourselves; but when his grace so operates...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. I said just now that the doctrinal words of Christ were to be regarded by us. So, dearly-beloved, the precepts or commands of God must ever be regarded. It is an idle tale for men to talk of a mythical visionary love to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, That he might joy in us,— feel a sacred delight in thinking of us as he does when he sees us keeping his commandments, and treasuring up his words, and so living in his love, and being mighty in prayer.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These things have I spoken unto you,.... Concerning the vine and branches, his abiding in them, and they in him, their fruitfulness from him, and perseverance in him, his love to them, and theirs to him: that my joy might remain in you; meaning either that joy with which he joyed in and over them, as united to him, and which is of the same nature...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That my joy might remain in you. and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. Good children are truly happy when their parents are happy in them. When they, through the good teaching and example of their parents, bring honour and joy to their parents, then they are sure to be themselves joyful. Oh, that we might so live...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And that your joy might be full. If Christ is not pleased with us, we cannot be glad; and if he has no joy in us, we cannot have joy in him. These two things rise and fall together. When the father of the family looks with joy upon his boy, then the boy is happy; but when the father has no joy in his son, then be sure of this, the son has no joy...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This is my commandment, that ye love one another,.... Christ had been before speaking of his commandments; and he mentions this as the principal one, and to which all the rest may be reduced; for as the precepts of the second table of the moral law may be briefly comprehended in this one duty, love to our neighbour, so all the duties of...