Good morning. He who has My Commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him. Here we come back to this again: if you love Jesus – you will keep His commandments. It’s not what you say; it’s what you do. Lord, what has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world? Again it seems that the disciples are hearing only one thing. They still have not addressed the issue about keeping His commandments. But Jesus is not going to let the issue drop. If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He who does not love Me, does not keep My words. Jesus was actually being a logician there. Just because you say if A, then B, does not automatically mean that if not A, then not B is true. In other words, just because Jesus said, if you love Me, you will keep My word does not logically mean that if you do not love Me, then you will not keep My word is true, even though we all know that in reality it would be true. Unfortunately many times I’ve heard preachers make that same wrong conclusion on other verses. That is your logic lesson for today 😎 . And the word which you heard is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me. Jesus was always very careful to make sure that He said exactly what the Father told Him to. These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Many times we forget or confuse the things that people said to us. That’s why witnesses disagree. In this case, Jesus is saying that you will remember everything exactly the way I told you; in fact it was crucial that they did. Father thank You that we have Jesus’ exact words upon which we can build our lives. Make those words real in the reader’s life.

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