If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
Your righteousness must flow through every command like blood through veins, keeping you alert and ready to move from one duty to the next. But mark this: what makes you different from a heathen doing the same outward acts is the spring from which you work, the evangelical motive. Look to your heart, or you travel the road while being out of the way.
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Commenting on Ephesians 6:10-20
If ye love me, keep my commandments. (6) He loves Christ rightly who obeys his commandment: and because obedience to Christ is accompanied with an infinite type and amount of miseries, although he is absent in body, yet he comforts his own with the present power of the Holy Spirit, whom the world despises, because it does not know him.
Love without obedience is mere pretense; obedience without love is slavery. Christ demands a love that labors, a cheerful working love, not the drudgery of fear. Your surest proof of attachment to Him is humble, willing obedience to all His commands, His law from Sion is gracious, it pardons weakness and accepts sincerity.
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