John 14 and 15: Love and Obedience

We are going to go through some of those scriptures right now. John 14 and 15: Abiding in the Light and Preparing for the Father's Kingdom. This is an interesting title because that's what these two chapters are about: abiding in the light by keeping the commandments and also preparing for the Father's kingdom. How do you prepare for the Father's kingdom? By doing what the Father says to do. That's the bottom line. And then Yeshua is going to confirm that. And yes, when we step out of alignment, we have the grace. We have the grace because we are trying to follow the commandments. So, to me, it's pretty simple: when you are in Yeshua and you are trying to follow the commandments, that's when you have the grace when you do mess up, when you do make a mistake or you make a boneheaded mistake or whatever, fall into temptation. But if it's just like, "Hey, I've got the grace to go break all the commandments, and I don't need to do anything to show Him I love Him at all because I just believe," James would say, "Your belief is dead." It is not by faith only.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say that. He wants you to do your part. Can I go commit adultery because Jesus fulfilled it? Can I go murder somebody? Jesus fulfilled it. Of course not. You have to follow God and the commandments. And yes, He did fulfill it to establish it on this earth if you read the proper understanding of Matthew 5:17-20. And if He did not, He would not be the Jewish Messiah. That's very simple to understand. Why? Because Isaiah 2 and Micah 4 would tell you that. Isaiah 2 and Micah 4 are prerequisites of the Jewish Messiah when He returns. So, when He returns, what do Isaiah 2 and Micah 4 say He is going to do? He is going to send out the Torah, God's first five books of the Bible, to the nations from Zion. Everybody is going to get a heavy dose of the Father's commandments. And if they don't obey, then guess what? Go read Revelation 19. Strike the nations with a rod of iron, everybody.

So, please do not take this out of context because people love to take things out of context all the time when I say some things like this. But you're talking about a righteous, eternal dictatorship. His way or get out is what He is coming to do. And I don't think people really understand that. I think people just think it's all peace and love, "Ain't life grand? Lemon cakes and coffees and motivational speeches, and hey, we're good." No, you're not good. They are not good. They are walking, or excuse me, they *are* darkness, and they have got to get out of darkness. Because the time is very near. So, let's read John 14 and 15. I want to provoke you to read that for yourself, the entire chapter, both chapters, to get the full dose of it, instead of just me summarizing some of these things. Read all of it and read what the Master said before He went to the cross. So, why would He say this in John 14 and 15, to go get crucified so that the Christians can be disobedient to the Father?

That is ignorance, just to be nice about it tonight on the Sabbath. Why would He go to the cross then Christians can say, "Okay, I can just go do whatever, enjoy the world because Jesus paid the price"? No, He did not get crucified for all of our sins so that we can live in darkness, so that we are the darkness of the world. He did not do that. He got crucified for our sins so that we can inherit eternal life. Those who follow Him and His Father's commandments, that's it. That is the new covenant. That is Jeremiah 31: "I will put the Torah on your heart and in your mind." That is the new covenant. Of course, Yeshua's blood. Of course, that. But there is keeping the commandments. And we're about to read what the Master has said. John 14 and 15: Abiding in the Light and Preparing for the Father's Kingdom. John 14:1-3: "In my Father's house are many mansions or many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you.

I go to prepare a place for you." Yeshua continues by promising that He will come again and receive His disciples to Himself. Now, compare that with Revelation 21. Revelation 21:3: "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them." Look at what He just says here: "In my Father's house are many mansions." And then He goes on to say, or in Revelation 21:3, "Behold, the tabernacle of God, the mansion, the dwelling places of God, is with men, and He will dwell with them." So, John 14 contains Yeshua's promise that His followers will be with Him. Revelation 21 describes the ultimate fulfillment of God's dwelling with His people. The precise relationship between the Father's house and the New Jerusalem is interpreted differently, but the central promise is the same: God's people will dwell in His presence. John 14:6: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." Now, connect that with John 1:4.

"In Him was life, and the life was the light of men"—not darkness, light of men. In Revelation 22, verse 14, where the redeemed receive access to the Tree of Life, notice the progression. John 1: Life is in Yeshua. John 14: Yeshua is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Revelation 22: The redeemed receive access to the Tree of Life by Yeshua and following the commandments. The One who is the source of life is also the One through whom we approach the Father. John 14:15-24: Love and Obedience. John 14:15 says this, and it's a very simple statement to understand: "If you love Me, keep My commandments." So, again, we say this all the time because it's one of the most basic, simple statements in the Holy Bible that I can show someone about what Messiah Yeshua, the Son of God, thinks about His Father's commandments. And if they are His Father's commandments, they are His commandments. Because if you read John 14:15, it says, "He and His Father are one." They are not separated.

They are not any. No, they are one. They are in God. So, again, I don't know where Christians get off saying that "what are Yeshua's commandments?" Well, they are in the Father's commandments. They are separating the Father and the Son, which is totally bad, just to be nice about it. But yes, they are separating the Father and the Son because they are one. They are on the throne together. Follow His commandments if you want to be in the light, and if not, then don't. It's pretty simple. In John 14:21, Yeshua explains that the one who has and keeps His commandments is the one who loves Him. So, again, I can say all the time, "Chadwick, I love God. I love Jesus." Whatever. How does He know that I love Him? He knows if I love Him. If Chadwick loves me, he will keep my commandments. And if he does not, he won't keep them. Pretty simple. So, again, that's what He is truly saying to all of us here on this earth: If you love Yeshua—and all the Christians say yes—then you better follow His Father's commandments, because if not, according to the scriptures, that person is darkness, not light, darkness.

Not walking in darkness; they *are* darkness. That person is, from what Yeshua the Messiah says. And in John 14:21, Yeshua explains that the one who has and keeps His commandments is the one who loves Him. Then John 14:23 connects love and obedience with the Father and the Son making their home with the believer. Let me read that again: John 14:23 connects love and obedience with the Father and the Son making their home with the believer. So, why would the Father want to make His home with a Christian who's breaking His commandments? Why would they want to just take... why would the Father want to do that? If a Christian is just not celebrating the Sabbath, none of their life, no feast days, none of their life... I mean, why? Give me an answer to that. It says what it says, everybody. "You, the one who has and keeps my commandments, is the one who loves him." That's it. So, if a Christian believer is not a foolish virgin, is not keeping the commandments, then they are a foolish virgin, their believer with no oil in their lamps.

And that means they have no light because they have no oil. What is the oil? Torah. Have the Torah, you have light, because He is the light, and the Torah is the light, the way, and the truth. So, again, it all goes together very perfectly. We just have to have our hearts circumcised into obedience, because we have too many disobedient Christians out there. We have too many non-believing Jews out there that need to get it right because of what time it is. I love everybody, but goodness gracious, both sides, wake up and understand what is said in the Holy Bible when you look at it from Genesis to Revelation. But guess what? That's why they don't see it because they're not studying Genesis to Revelation. Judaism isn't, and Christianity isn't. So, both parties, how would they know? They don't believe in the other side, right? So, again, we have to come truly to Him through Yeshua, the blessed Holy Spirit, which is called the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of the Torah, the Spirit of Truth.

And He is going to lead you into that truth. So, there is a fake spirit out there, everybody, that's not leading you into the truth. That is the devil's spirit. There is a fake Holy Spirit out there as well, or a fake spirit out there as well, that is deceiving people. People think they're following the Holy Spirit; they're not. The Holy Spirit will lead you to the truth of God's word. Please understand what John 14:15 says. Please go revisit that. The Holy Spirit is not going to say anything different than the Father and the Son. We have to get educated and understand that that's what it is. What did the Father and the Son say? "The one who has and keeps His..." If you love Him, keep His commandments, His Father's commandments. If not, we don't. We have to really understand that's really the point blank. Compare these passages, my friends: John 14 and Revelation 22. John 14: The love for Yeshua is expressed through obedience to the commandments.

Revelation 22: The ones who enter Jerusalem are those who do His commandments, just as it says in Revelation 22:14. John 14: Fellowship with the Father and the Son. Revelation 22: God's servants dwell in His presence. John 14: Yeshua is the Life. Revelation 22: Access to the Tree of Life. And it's not just, "I believe in Jesus." No, the demons believe and they tremble. Please understand. So, I guess Christians need to start trembling who are not keeping the commandments. So, again, please revisit John 14 and John 15, my Christian friends. Read it slowly and understand what your Master is telling you to get in alignment or get out, is what He is saying. Obedience is not presented as a way to earn salvation independently of God's grace. Rather, John consistently describes love and obedience as inseparable expressions of genuine love and fellowship with Yeshua. "If you love Me, keep My commandments." Take His word for it.