You are my friends if you do what I command you.
Christ does not say we earn His friendship by merit, but sets down the condition on which He receives us into His favor: we must keep His commandments. The ungodly, who through contempt of the Gospel oppose Him, renounce His friendship themselves.
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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
No longer will I treat you as servants kept in fear and ignorance of My counsels. I call you friends because I have made known to you all the designs of My grace and the mysteries of salvation that My Father gave Me as your Mediator.
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