What Does Jesus Command?

What Does Jesus Command?

Dave Riddle • 05/15/2022

Key Passage: John 15:12-17

John 15:12 (CSB): This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you.

• Love = agapaō - agape, immeasurable and unconditional love.

John 15:13 (CSB): No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends.

• He calls us friends when, in reality, we were His enemies.

  • Romans 5:8

John 15:14 (CSB): You are my friends if you do what I command you.

• Abraham: James 2:23

• Us! John 15:15 - no longer blindly obedient servants, but friends.

John 15:16 (CSB): You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. 

• Referring back to John 15:1-8

• He chose us!

“These things” I command you, that you love one another. John 15:17

• Possibly: All of His commands boil down to “love one another”.

• Or: the result of all of His commands is that we will love one another.

John 15:17 (CSB): “This is what I command you: Love one another.”

• Not optional.

  • Command, enjoin, an imperative

  • entolē = an order, command, charge, precept, injunction

Everything we do should be deepening our love for one another.