Introduction:
12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.
15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
17 This I command you, that you love one another
(John 15:12-17 NASB)
Review:
Theme: Three crucial provisos for friendship with Jesus so you will rightly respond to Him
I. Jesus commands us how to relate vv. 12-13, 17
A. The command to love one another vv. 12, 17
B. The illustration of the command v. 13
II. Jesus calls us His friends vv. 14-15
The Parameters of the friendship
1. A conditional friendship v. 14
2. An antithetical friendship v. 15a
3. A revelatory friendship v. 15b
III. Jesus chose us for this relationship v. 16
A. The initiative for this friendship is taken by Jesus v. 16a
B. The purpose for this friendship is reproduction v. 16b
C. The benefit of this friendship is answered prayer v. 16c
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