No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
A servant executes orders without understanding his master's reasons; friendship means being admitted to plans and wishes. Christ proved you friends by opening His mind: His death, resurrection, design, all revealed to you.
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Not servants in the sense explained, you remain under law to Christ and glory in it, but friends admitted to free fellowship where I hold nothing back from what I have received from the Father.
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Christ unbosoms Himself to you as friends, not mere servants, revealing all needful for salvation, as a counsellor imparts to his client what concerns his own case. Your dignity grows the longer you follow Him.
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