If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
10. If you keep my commandments. He points out to us the method of perseverance. his, to follow where he calls, for, as Paul says, They who are in Christ walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit, (Romans 8:1.) For these two things are continually united, that faith which perceives the undeserved love of Christ toward us, and a good conscience and newness of life.
The Father loved Christ as Mediator and gave all things into His hand; Christ abode in that love by keeping His Father's commandments. As the Father has loved Him, so He loves us, and we abide in His love by keeping what He commands.
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Commenting on John 15:9-17
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...