Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
God's love for us is not earned by our obedience but sealed in our hearts when He makes us His adopted children. Christ speaks not of that eternal love from before the world was made, but of the growing manifestations of grace by which believers advance continually, receiving more as they already have faith.
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The Father manifests His favor through farther dispensations of grace and comfort to those who walk in strict obedience. The indwelling presence of His Spirit denotes that sweet and intimate fellowship with God and Christ, constant and perpetual, until we are taken up into heaven itself.
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Though I leave you bodily, I leave you not comfortless; departure is neither total nor final. I come to you at my resurrection, come daily in my Spirit's tokens and visits, and come certainly at the end. The Lord is at hand: this should quiet your sorrow.
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Commenting on John 14:18-24