John 15:12-17

vs. 12-13 - A GREATER CALL

How would your world change if you too would commit to love others, to really serve others, to lay down your agenda, your plans, and serve other people with the Love of Christ? I believe it would change exponentially, that in fact it would change the others in your world.

"This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends"

vs. 15 - UNENDING BENEFITS

Jesus makes an awesome statement here, He tell us that we can be called His friend if we do what He commands, (Love God, Love Others Matt 22:37-39.) I love what He says then will happen, He says if you are my friends then I will tell you everything my Father tells me.

People are always looking to get trade secrets from successful men/women. How would your world change if you could get insider information from the best of the best, the creator of Heaven and Earth. Becoming a friend of Jesus has unending benefits.

"You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you."

vs. 16-17 - GREATER PURPOSE

I love this verse, I can know that my calling, my purpose is not powerless because Jesus chose and appointed me to "Go" and that in my going I would bear "Fruit," that I would be successful in everything I do in His name, everything I do in my calling. I have been chosen by Jesus and I have purpose, that's good news.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. These things I command you, that you love one another.