True Love for Christ Expressed by Obedience - John 14:15

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a.m. Now, let's open God's word and

ask him to reveal his truths for our lives.

If you have your Bibles, I want you to turn with me and I am

excited about being back here to the Gospel of John.

We have been traveling through the Gospel of John for some time

now. And I can tell you this to me

the Gospel of John just continually gets better and

better and better with every verse that you look at.

And today, in our journey in the Gospel of John, we are going to

look at just one verse and I don't like to do that without

contextualizing where we are so that you kind of have an idea.

I know that we have had the break during Christmas, where we

observe the Lord's birth and reminded you that he didn't stay

that babe in a Manger as the world wanted him to and wants

him to. But then he grew to be the

savior of all who would believe and trust in him where he died

upon the cross. He was buried.

He rose again. But we see in John's 14th

chapter here, after our break. Is that our before I break?

Excuse me, we looked at the promise that Jesus made to his

disciples, after telling them that Peter was going to deny

Christ. And after Jesus, predicting the

Betrayal of Judas, and after Jesus telling his disciples in

chapter 12, that he was going to die, and how he was going to die

in an 13, he washed their feet as we know, and in 14, he told

them do not let your hearts be troubled and we looked At a

message concerning our troubled hearts and to know and to

understand that it's trust in Christ that frees us from the

Troubles of our hearts in this world.

And he gave them great Assurance.

Those true believers who were still there in that Upper Room

on the night, that Jesus was betrayed.

And Jesus is going to continue to teach here and verse 15 and

he's going to teach a very powerful lesson.

In very few words, just before he gives them the promise of the

Holy Spirit. And In the context of him

speaking to only his true followers.

He's going to say this to them. In verse 15 of chapter 14.

He says this and I want you to pay close attention to it.

He says, if you love me, you will obey what I Command Jesus,

here in this one. Verse is speaking of love, not

just spoken. But love shown as we look at a

message entitled, true love's for Christ, expressed by

obedience, I assure you. This Jesus is saying just as

that title has indicated. He is saying if you have true

love for me, it will be expressed in your life as

obedience to the commands of Christ.

It is action-based love. I want everyone to understand

that a People claim to love Christ with no action in your

life. To back that up is just empty.

Talk it is the equivalent of you telling your husband or your

wife that you love them verbally using your words to say that I

love you but then making them doubt with every single thing

that you do you show? Absolutely no love to them.

It won't Glowing I assure you this for that person who you

tell that you love and you show that you don't it won't take

long for them to figure out. You are just a bunch of hot air

saying one thing but denying what you say by your actions

because we know this That the whole world is going to Define

Us by our actions, aren't they? And so, Jesus is making this

very clear to his disciples that obedience toward and love for

Christ are inseparable. Are you write that down?

They are in separable. They are like faith and

repentance. Did you know?

You can't have one without the other.

You can't have faith without repentance and you can't repent

without true Faith. They are the The opposite sides

of a coin. It would be like taking the head

side of a quarter and the tail side of the quarter and

splitting them into and we all know this at that point in time

you don't have a quarter. Any longer you have a piece of

metal that is useless. And so when we look at this

obedience toward and love for Christ, we must see that they

are inseparable. In fact, Jesus has already

indicated and we will reiterate many times today, the gauged, by

which you measure your love for Christ.

Is what comes out of your life. It is your obedience to his

commands. And so we come to this difficult

verse in this difficult section of scripture for us to grasp.

Because what it does, it quickly grabs our attention doesn't it?

There's never been a time in my life and my own personal study

or and preparing a sermon, like today.

When I came to this verse and I didn't stop after reading it,

And examine my own life. For fear that I might have an

empty claim without any proof. When I would ask that you would

do today, is that you would do the same.

As we hear these words, if you love me, you will obey my

commands now so that we have kind of an understanding of what

it would mean to obey the commands of Christ.

I want us to go all the way back to the Old Testament.

And I want us to go back to Exodus chapter 20.

Exodus 20 · chapter mention

Where many people remove this portion of scripture.

From the Bible, we remove it from courtrooms, we remove it

from classrooms. It is what we know as the

decalogue are the Ten Commandments deck up, meaning 10

and the ten laws that God gave to Moses, these are the 10

things, revealing God's holiness, and his standard for

Perfection. What are the Lord's commands?

Well, I assure you this, if you have been studying John with us

for any amount of time, you know, this in the beginning,

John 1:1 was the word and the Word was with God and the Word

John 1:1

was God, we know 1:14, the word became flesh.

Fish and dwelt Among Us. The one who gave the very

commands to Moses there on Sinai.

I assure you, this was the word of God.

And so, when we look at the world, the Lord's commands here.

We see that the Lord's commands are defined by the word.

We can't just remove the Ten Commandments.

We can't just erase the decalogue from scripture.

We must see. What does it mean to a New

Testament follower of Christ? And so let's bring ourselves up

to speed because we live in a culture where many of This would

be embarrassed if we were asked to name maybe perhaps six out of

the ten. Let's look at all 10 and we'll

look at them briefly and then we will look at what we are going

to look at today. Mainly being true, love for

Christ expressed by obedience. He says this in Exodus chapter

Exodus 20 · chapter mention

20 he says you shall have no other gods before me rightly, so

because he is the one true. God, the only one worthy of any

adoration and worship. We can agree with that.

He goes on to say you shall make a no Idols don't.

Don't make any Graven. Even images, or Idols for

yourself to worship them. Why?

Because they're not real at all. There's no life in them at all.

They are not truly gods. The third command, he said You

shall and not take the name of the Lord.

God, the Lord your God in vain. What does that mean?

That could be an abbreviation on your text messages.

Right? You know the abbreviation that

I'm talking about where you use the lord's name in vain, it

could be a little attachment. Your curse word that you find

yourself doing from time to time, But it could be this, it

could be you using the lord's name in vain.

Many people do this. Now in the Christian circles,

they say God told me to tell you this.

God didn't tell you to tell anything to anyone else.

Let me assure you that his word is full of all the instruction

that they need for life and godliness.

Stop telling people that That's using the lord's name in vain.

You want that person to be unit manipulated by your psychology.

So you blame God for it stop it's not biblical.

That's using the lord's name in vain, he goes on and we see

there is another command next to keep the Sabbath day.

Holy and how do we keep the Sabbath day?

Holy as a new testament body of Believers?

How do we keep the Sabbath day? Holy it's not meeting on

Saturday, when the Sabbath was, it is to enter into the rest of

Christ. He is the one who is that

Sabbath rest? We know that, he fulfilled that

in himself. That's why Jesus said come unto

me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you

what rest. He is the Sabbath.

So honor Christ and abide in him.

Command 5, he said, honor your father and your mother honor,

your father, and your mother. And we seemingly think that this

is not a big deal. In today's time that it's even

actually optional from a lot of the parents that I see rearing

children. Obedience was never an option

around my house. I don't know about.

You is ever an option. You obeyed your mother and your

father and if you didn't obey your mother, you were dealt with

by your father. It's just the way that it works.

Many people think. Well, that's not that big of a

deal. Well, it's not that big of a

deal. Why would Paul, right?

Timothy and saying, the last days is that children will be

disobedient to their parents. It is a sign of the End of Time.

What's a big deal? It is basic human nature.

Does not obey my parents, why? Because they're the first

god-given Authority in my life, even before the church?

Was my parents. They're an authority.

My life that God has given me. I didn't ask for them.

I was graced with them. He says that we should honor our

fathers and mothers and you shall not commit murder.

Commit murder and everybody in here.

Says, well, I'm good with that most of us, I hope. but the fact

the scripture confirms this, that if we hold anger and

animosity and hatred in our heart for another brother, it's

the same thing, It's the same thing as you're just one step

away from it. You're just one step away from

committing that action. That's why we are to forgive as

we've been forgiven. And to forgive 7 times, 70 and

not hold those grudges hold on to that anger.

You shall not commit adultery. I realize as I'm finding that

area or are you because did you know this every time you look at

that pornographic image, that's adultery.

You are actually in your mind lusting after a woman at Jesus

himself said this if you look after a woman and you've lost,

you've committed, adultery in your heart, you've already taken

all of the steps except for the physical act, please pay

attention to that. Because we live in a society

that is inundated by pornography industry.

That is bringing in billions upon billions upon billions of

dollars each year because men are committing adultery

pretending like it's no big deal.

It goes on to say, you shall not steal.

That is. It means from the IRS since it's

tax time. I'll just throw that out there.

Fudge on your taxes. Don't steal.

Don't take something that doesn't belong to you.

This is basic. He goes on and he says, you

shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Don't slander, don't gossip. Don't lie about someone else.

And he says, you shall not covet, he's not covered.

Even when you go to someone's house is nicer than yours.

And they have better decorations in you and Why can't you have

that? Well why can't you just Rejoice

that day have it? And be thankful that God blessed

them with it and you be content with what you have.

That seems like that's the biblical approach but yet we

find ourselves Coveting. Whether that's Someone else's

home their possession, their vehicles.

Well, their wives their husbands or their children or was my

children. Would behave like their children

to make them behave? Pretty simple.

And they would know since coveting other people's children

who are obedient So we look at the Ten Commandments and we look

at the Ten Commandments not to say, of course that this is some

standard, by which we are to live because as you were looking

at that. So was I and I realized I failed

many times and these command But it's Christ.

Who saved me not so that I can continue to ignore those

commands. But so that I can now obediently

walk in those commands. And we're gonna see how that

happens as we unfold this in one package, this message today.

And so what we have to do, in order to understand that in New

Testament, light, and please understand this, the New

Testament gives greater light to God's desired commands and for

us fulfilling them that greater light.

Of course, we know is Christ coming to this earth and Christ

simplified things for us in Matthew chapter 22, by way of

Matthew 22 · chapter mention

introduction, we're going to look at This.

And then we're going to get back to John 14:15 for the remaining

John 14:15

time that we have together. The Matthew chapter 22 verse

Matthew 22 · chapter mention

verse 37, says, Jesus replied. Love the Lord, your God with all

your heart. And with all your soul, and with

all your mind, this is the first and greatest commandment.

The second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself

and then he says this all the law and the prophets hang on,

these two commands, all the law, Oh, and the prophets, hang on,

these two commands, love the Lord, your God, with all your

heart, soul and mind, and love your neighbor as your self.

So we see this, The law in the Light of Christ.

Is not corrected, right? He didn't say the law is is

useless and throw it out, but in Christ, the law is perfected.

It so what I'm saying when I say that it's love for God and love

for others because Christ, first loved you does everybody

understand how that works. In fact the Apostle John said

this and I won't go back and preach the first John I've done

that before but he says this this is love, not that.

We loved God. But that he?

What loved us. And because he loves us, we now

know what true love really is. And what I want us to do today.

I want us to examine Our Lives to see if we really have true

love for Christ in light of these things.

Because I assure you of this, the perfect law of God, how many

at does? If the Ten Commandments Were

Somehow flawed, can I assure you this The Ten Commandments

weren't flawed, you are The psalmist calls it, the perfect

law of God, it is God's perfect standard.

There's nothing wrong with it at all, but everything wrong with

us. And so when we see this that it

is the perfect law of God and that it hasn't failed because it

couldn't Is God, never fails. It was actually fulfilled in

Love by God as he loved us and demonstrated his love for us in

Christ at Calvary. Remember Romans 5:8.

Romans 5:8

God demonstrates his love for us in that.

While we were sinners Christ died for us.

And so what Christ is teaching, here is the law of love.

Now, when we apply the law of love that, God, loved us first.

Not that we loved him. I assure you.

That we despise him. We hated his commands.

We hated his statutes. We were total, unbelievers, at

enmity with God. Enemies of God, Scripture says,

but that he loved us and in saying that love a proper

response. How do you see the sacrificial?

Love of Jesus Christ? And not love the Lord, your God

with all your heart, soul and mind and your neighbor as

yourself. That's exactly what Jesus is

teaching us here. But when we get to John chapter

John 14 · chapter mention

14, where we will spend our time today, I want you to see this

before we go into it. he is not saying, he's not saying that if

you obey the commands, Then that will be accredited to you as

righteousness. But what he is saying is this

because that would be legalism before someone accuses me of

being a legalists that's legalism that I'm justified by

works of obedience. I'm not I fall short, I assure

you But what Jesus is teaching here today and I want to make

this very clear because if a preacher preaches on obedient,

holy living these days, he's immediately thrown into a

category of legalist or Saya, say it is said about him that he

preaches legalism. And I'm not preaching, legalism

to you. I assure you.

I am an advocate and I believe, scripture declares that it is by

grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone.

If you haven't heard me, say that 42 million times.

You've not been here much. But what Jesus is preaching and

what I am going to speak on today, in light of Jesus, is

this? Though, we can't be made

righteous by. Obeying God's commands.

If we have been made righteous, it will be proven by the fact

that we obey God's commands. So we're not promoting obedience

to the law to be saved. Pay attention to this, but we

are promoting obedience to the law Giver because we are saved.

Does everybody understand that? So we get the 14th verse 15 and

I know that was a long intro, but I don't want anyone to beat

misled about what I am. Preaching today, I'm not

preaching to you morality and I'm not preaching to you

legalism. I am preaching to you as

Believers and I'm saying this examine your life.

You claim to truly love Christ to that I would say in light of

what we're going to look at today, do you?

Do you do you really love Christ because Christ says this in John

John 14:15

14:15 as we've already said, if you love me if oh Jesus teaching

concerning true love expressed by obedience, watch his right

Leigh provides Assurance. It rightly provides Assurance of

Salvation. If you love me, What a big word,

only consisting of two letters. If If you love me.

In that one statement. he is saying I'm about to provide for

you evidence and Assurance of true faith in that one little

word if Obedience to Christ commands.

I want you to understand as defined by Jesus himself, I

don't care what anyone else wants to tell you.

We're looking at what Christ said obedience to Christ

commands. Proves it proves your true love

for him and in that you can have great assurance that you have

true. Saving Faith, you can't nor.

Should you ever have Assurance of salvation?

Vision Without obedience to Christ, let me say that again

you can't nor. Should you ever have Assurance

of true salvation without obedience to Christ?

It is what true faith is going to produce.

James himself said this faith without works is what dead?

It's dead. It's just a false claim.

We know this when we look at Jesus teaching here concerning

true, love expressed by obedience, it rightly provides

Assurance for who why? I promise you.

This you don't have to assure God if anything he already knows

those of you who are foolishly thinking that you're going to

trick him by some type of insincere love toward him.

You're sadly mistaken. He already knows that it's

phony. But what it does do, it gives

Assurance for yourself as a True Believer.

Now, I'm going to do this and I don't do this to embarrass.

Anyone have any of you as Believers ever doubted

salvation? Maybe that was for a moment.

Maybe that was for a season. Have you ever doubted salvation?

Just do it real fast? So you don't incriminate

yourself? Okay, put it down.

Why because your human mind can cause you to doubt things that

are absolutely positively, true canted.

But we see this what Jesus is teaching here.

It rightly provides Assurance. He says if you're going to know

that you're truly saved, you can examine your own life and how do

you examine your own life? What areas should I look at a?

My obedient to the commands of Christ pretty plain and simple.

I love that Jesus. Simplifies it so that we can

understand it a, my obedient to the commands of Christ.

And if I am obedient to the commands of Christ, that brings

great assurance. Those commands and being

obedient to those commands won't save me.

But what they are, is they are proof that I am truly saved

first. John 2:3 says this and we know

1 John 2:3

that we have come to know him if we obey his commands, you want

to know if you truly know Christ, if you truly love

Christ, are you actively Desiring and fulfilling

obedience to his commands. That's plain and simple verse 5

of that. Same text.

I don't intentionally jump over for but I'm going to come back

and grab it later and first John but first John chapter 2 verse 5

1 John 2:5

it says but if anyone obeys his word God's love is truly made

complete in him. He said you get the love of God.

Oh, isn't it? The love of God, that propels us

to obedience and Christ for sure.

It is. This is how we know we are in

him. How do we know that we are in

him? If we obey his what is word?

If you obey the teachings of Christ, you can have full

confidence that you're in Christ.

To let me say this, if you have a claim to be in Christ, in a

claim to love Christ, truly But you're yet, you're not obedient

to the things that his word commands.

You're attempting to deceive your own self.

You have no insurance at all. But when we have that true love

expressed by obedience we can have Assurance for ourselves is

in that moment that we examine our lives and we confirm our own

salvation. It is in that moment that we do

is scriptures as we work it out. We work out our own salvation

with fear and trembling, what does that mean?

We hash through it, we live it, we see am.

I really living in obedient life unto Christ or am I just

claiming to love Christ and my life doesn't show.

Just as that husband, who would say I love you honey and then He

would turn around and abused her every moment.

There's no true love there at all, don't be deceived.

In fact, John says in his epistle in first John, same

John, who's writing, the gospel that we're looking at here.

He says in chapter 3 verse 23 and this is his command to

believe in the name of his son. Jesus Christ.

That's Grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone,

but watch this and to love one. Another, as he has commanded us,

those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them.

And this is how we know that he lives in us.

We know it by the spirit he gave us now.

I promise you this, at the end dwelling, Holy Spirit lives in

you, he is not leading you to disobedience in Christ.

Is constantly leading you to obedience in Christ confirming

and giving you the assurance that you are truly in Christ.

You can say, then that I truly love Christ.

And how do I know this? Because I can't sin anymore

because I know this, I know that when I do sin, when I doosan, I

find myself grieving over that. I can't send comfortably as I

once did. I find myself grieving knowing

this that it is, that's in, it is, that's in that nail.

My Savior to the cross. It is that's in that bore pain

and Agony upon his body that's in that belonged to me was

pressed upon him and I don't want to see the fact that my

savior who loved me so much suffered for me.

And so what I do is this, I Repent of it and I turned from

it and I confess it Lord that sin is to send that nailed you

to the cross and I desire obedience.

Why? Because you're pleased with

obedience. You're pleased with obedience

through faith. It gives great Assurance for the

believer to realize that obedience is required by Christ,

philo's Christ. It's going to come forth out of

my life. If I don't, the opposite is

going to come forth out of my life.

Now, let me tell you what, I'm not preaching to you today.

I'm not preaching to you sinless, perfection. what I am

preaching to you, is this, there is no True Believer who can

enjoy sin and any amount Any dose of sin offends, the True

Believer in your life and in the lives of others.

Why? Because the Holy Spirit Bears

witness to the opposite of that, he Bears witness to

righteousness and Holiness, and obedience to the commands of God

for the believer to hold onto sin in their life is to be a

miserable, miserable person in my prayer today is that you

would trust Christ to free you from that misery today as you

confess, that thing, whatever it may be.

As you walk in the assurance, that Christ wants us to have

that Assurance comes as he said, if you love me, you will obey.

If you love me Assurance for yourself, but not only insurance

for yourself. Did you notice as Christians, we

all live in some type of fish bowl, don't we?

Right. The moment that the Lost World

Hears, someone say I'm a Christian You know what they're

looking for? That time where you mess up so

that they can throw it right back in your face.

They're looking for that time. What I would say to you is

Christians, why do we give them so many excuses?

Why do we not see the importance of living a holy and obedient

life to the commands of the word of God?

And I know what you said but I can't you couldn't apart from

Christ but the indwelling Holy Spirit who lives in you as you

yield to him I assure you of this he is going to lead you

into loving the Lord, your God with all your heart, soul and

mind, and love. Your neighbor as yourself and in

doing that, you will obey the commands of God.

It will bring great Assurance, not only to you but to others.

I just yesterday preached, a funeral of a man that I dearly

loved as a child and I love the testimony that many gave of him.

He was no preacher at all. He was an example of Christ in

his life. Here's example by the life that

he lived. Was it a perfect life know.

We got involved in it it became imperfect at that point in time.

I assure you until we are glorified, there will be no

Perfection why he is the author and he is the Perfecter of our

faith. He is going to do the whole

thing. But what I loved about this is

the testimony is were his life. Not just the things that came

off his lips. He was consistent in his life.

If you love me, Jesus said you obey me, it brings Assurance for

yourself and insurance for others.

Gives others validity to your claim of Faith.

They look at you and they say, you know what, that person is

not all talk. Why?

Because I saw them do what the word of God commands us do.

I saw them do that when they didn't have to do that, I saw

them. Do that knowing full.

Well, that I knew them before they claim.

To be Christians and they wouldn't have done that.

Gives Assurance to other people that you truly are what you say

that you are. Because others are examining Our

Lives. I assure you.

And when they examine your life, They can't see your thought in

word, love for Christ. All they see is what comes out.

All they see is what comes out, they see your outward.

Either a Disobedience confirming that you are lost or your

obedience, conforming that confirming that you are truly

one of his so it brings as it rightly should assurance

insurance for yourself, insurance for others.

So, as I Varley already, clearly stated, let me say it again.

Obedience to Christ is not the path to Salvation.

But the proof of Salvation to you and to those around you.

So examine yourself today, examine your life today and see

if there is confirmation that you truly do love Christ because

Jesus is teaching here again. True love will be expressed by

our obedience to his commands. So love for Christ expressed by

obedience to his commands. Offers hope and Assurance

ourselves and others. The next thing that we see is

this, as we look at the teaching of Jesus, here, in this, one

particular verse Jesus, teaching concerning true love expressed

by obedience, number 2, rejects perverse, antinomianism.

Now I know what you're going to do.

You're going to say anti no Mia. What?

I've told you often, I will tell you.

Again, I will not be the pastor who dumps things down so that

you can't come to a clear understanding of the truths of

Theology and scripture, but I will be the pastor, who, when we

get to these difficult things in these new terms.

I will explain to you exactly what they mean.

So that you can leave here with some understanding that you

didn't have, and some insight into scripture.

And so Jesus, teaching concerning love expressed by

obedience. We see rightly proves Assurance

but it rejects perverse antinomianism, and what Is Aunt.

I know me, anism. Well, Jesus says this and 14 15.

He says you will. Don't you love that?

Not, you might, or you should or may I suggest something to you

and you should take it into consideration.

He said you will obey what I command.

Now, what is anti, know me, anism anti know me, an ism is a

term that Is an old dialogical term, that many times.

We don't like to talk about because we see it so prevalent

in our Christian culture. It is a term meaning no law or

against law, or the fact that a person believes that the

commands of God, no longer apply because of Grace, and they use

Grace as a license to sin. We all understand antinomianism.

And it's Smaller understanding, right?

It goes like this. You're riding with a friend in

his car. You're going through a speed

zone of 70 miles an hour. He's rolling about 85 you say to

your believing friend, you say, hey man, it's 70 through here.

You might want to slow down and you're hyper spiritual friend,

who is anti know me and says to you, man I'm not under law.

But under grace about the time, the law turns their blue and red

lights on and reminds him. You are under the laws of the

State of Texas and Paul, I'm over and writes him.

A ticket based on that Authority now.

We do that. And we see that so many times

and this modern Church age, where we abuse Grace by our

sinful Disobedience, that is anti, no me anism.

It's the idea that because I've been saved by grace alone,

through faith alone in Christ alone.

I can ignore the commands of God and live in any way that I want

to live and still make it to the Pearly Gates.

The fact of the matter is is it's heresy, it's not biblical

and it is abuse of the grace of God.

It is the fact that these anti, no means have done this.

They have confused justification, and

sanctification. And let me just tell you this,

you can't have one without the other but his justification that

saves you. It is sanctification that proves

as you are being made, holy that you truly have been saved.

And so know this. If you are here today and you

have received the grace of God by grace alone, through faith

alone in Christ alone, and you are saved.

That is no excuse for you to sin.

In fact, Paul understood that people would think, like this in

Romans chapter 6, he wrote this to the Roman Church.

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He says, in verse 15, What then shall we sin?

Because we are not under the law, but under grace and he

answers by no means don't, you know that when you offer

yourself to someone to obey him a slaves, you are slaves to the

one whom you obey, whether you are slaves to sin which leads to

death or to obedience which leads to righteousness, watch

what he says next. But thanks be to God that.

Do you used to be slaves to sin or he talks about their slavery

to sin in the past though? You used to live any way that

you wanted to live because you were controlled by your own lust

of your flesh and your sin nature.

He says that's the way you used to live, but thanks be to God

that no, you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly

obeyed. The form of teaching to which

you were entrusted. You have been Free from sin and

have become slaves to righteousness, so pay attention

to that church slave to righteousness.

And what does that? That is righteous acts, that is

obedience to the commands of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That is loving the Lord, your God with all your heart.

Soul and mind, that is loving your neighbor as yourself and

fulfilling the law of God in your very life as you walk in

the love of Christ verse 19. He says, I put this in human

terms because you are weak in your natural selves.

Just as you used to offer the parts of your body.

D and slavery to impurity and ever-increasing wickedness.

So now offer them in slavery to righteousness, leading to

Holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you

were free from the control of righteousness.

What benefit did you reap? At the time?

From the things, you are now ashamed of no benefit, right?

We're ashamed of those sins. They've benefited us not at all.

They were a path of Destruction. Those things result in death,

but now verse 22 says that you have been set free from sin.

You have and have become slaves. To God the benefit, you reap

leads to holiness. Cleanest, what does it lead to

holiness? If your life is not constantly

being conformed to the image of Christ and of Holiness, you need

to really examine. Do you have true love for

Christ? Why?

If you love me? You will obey what I have

commanded. The benefit that you read leads

to Holiness in the result is eternal life for the wages of

sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal

life in Christ. Jesus, our lord.

What is Paul saying there? He's saying this the gift of

grace through faith, Jesus Christ that you've been given.

That gift comes with something and it comes with this, your new

responsibility not to live the old way that you used to live in

your sin and your pride and in your sinful nature.

But it is to live in righteousness, and Holiness and

bringing glory and honor to God through Jesus Christ.

And what a privilege it is that we get to live a life of

obedience. I don't know about you, but I'm

tired of Christians who they want to.

Get way out on the edge. How much can I still get away

with and not abuse the grace of God?

That's not a question that we should be asking.

We should go back to the heart of God, to the Ten Commandments

and say, Here's what pleases God, lord, remove any area in my

life that does not, please you show me what it is.

Lead Me In obedience to that area.

Oh, the antinomian abuses Grace, by their sinful disobedience.

They abused Grace because they have no true.

Understanding of Grace in the price, that was paid for them at

the cross. Oh, how could we abuse the

Glorious sacrifice of Jesus Christ that he has graced us

with? How can we abuse that by living

any way that we want to live, you know, with the attitude that

so many Christians have? I would rather ask for

forgiveness than permission and just go ahead and do what you

want to do anyways and not really worry about all the

people that you're going to hurt in the process and all the

Fallout. It's going to come from your

Disobedience and how your testimony that testimony of

Christ. That is so beautiful that we've

been given that, we don't deserve how you will drag that

through the mud and make a mockery of him.

Well, may you hear the word of the Lord today?

Where he says, if you love me, You'll obey what I command you

want. Abused my grace.

Jesus, teaching concerning true love expressed by obedience

projects-- perverse antinomianism.

That is the abuse of Grace by sinful Disobedience, but it is

also the abolishment of God's commands.

In the name of Freedom, the antinomian wants to abolish the

name. I mean abolish the commands of

God in the name of Freedom, all you were here, him all the time.

I have freedom in Christ to do, whatever it is that I want to do

unfortunate thing, is they forget what?

Scripture says, Grace is 5:13. Here's what it says.

Isaiah 5:13

You my brothers were called to be free, but do not use your

freedom to indulge in the sinful nature, rather serve one another

in love. Here's that loving one.

Another thing that Jesus, Promoted he says the entire law

is summed up in a single command, love your neighbor as

yourself. Well how important it is that we

see that how important it is that we see at Freedom in

Christ. It's not freedom to do, whatever

it is that we want to do. Many people think that freedom

is in Christ is freedom to sin. I said it before and I'll say it

again. It's not freedom to sin, freedom

from sin. Why would Christ free you from

your old life of sin? Only to have you in the name of

Freedom abuse Grace in return back to it.

It's absolutely contrary to the teachings of the word of God and

the teachings of the New Testament Church.

Christ said, if you love me. You'll be my commands.

Peter says this in First Peter chapter 2.

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He says live as free men but do not use your freedom as a

cover-up for evil live as Servants of God.

How will people know that your Servants of God I assure you

this if you look just like the world you act like the world,

you talk like the world. You go to the places of the

world, you consume the substances of the world, you

party with the world. You do all the things that the

world does. They don't really think that

you're anything other than the world.

He says, don't don't use your freedom as a cover-up but live

as Servants of God. Why watch what he says show?

Proper respect to everyone. Why?

Because everyone's watching you show them that you truly love

Christ. Let it be more than just words.

He says love the Brotherhood of Believers show them that you

love the church right in a day and time where people are

telling you that you don't have to love the church and be a part

of a church to love Christ. I say this to you.

Yes, you do forsake. Not the Assembly of the saying.

Let's go to church symbol with other believers and express your

love to Christ together in obedience to his commands.

He's a show proper respect to everyone, love the Brotherhood

of Believers fear, God, there's that love for God, loved him

with all your heart, soul and mind.

He says, honor the king respect, the authorities that God has

plays. When you do this, people are

going to see you and they're going to see you as a true

Christian who does not abuse Grace, right?

Going to see you as some perverse antinomian abolishing

God's commands for your convenience.

Isn't that what people love to do today?

But I enjoy this and so I'm going to fudge in this area of

my life. You know what?

You're saying listen to me. You love that sin more than you

love Christ. He said that's harsh.

Well, that's real. That's truth.

Jesus said if you love me you will obey what?

I command. We cannot live like perverse

anti. No means because what Jesus

says, rejection reverse antinomian.

And antinomianism. We cannot abuse Grace just

because we have freedom. Cannot abolish, God's commands.

Just because we have Grace, and freedom will see the importance

of them working together and I assure you this, any teaching,

you write this down, any teaching that removes, or erases

required obedience to the Lord's commands, into the teaching of

the word of God. Any teaching, it says, you were

free to do what you want to do, is contrary.

Read to biblical sound teaching walk out when they say that.

It's not important that we as Christians are obedient to the

commands of God. Why?

Because it directly contradicts what Jesus says.

And this one particular verse that were looking at today I

know some of you at this point in time, your minds are bungled

because I threw a new word at you just rest you'll get it.

I don't want to move to the last in the final portion of this.

Jesus teaching concerning true love expressed by obedience

rightly provides Assurance. It rejects perverse

antinomianism or an abuse of Grace.

But I want you to see this because this is important today

and I want you to examine your own lines in light of this.

Thirdly, it reveals pseudo, affection pseudo, affection.

And what I want to do here is I want to do a reversal of

Scripture. A lot of times in interpreting

texts and understanding something.

It's a good practice to reverse that scripture.

And what I mean by that is to take the scripture and to look

at it in reverse order. And for example, we are looking

at John 14:15 and it says this if you love me, you will obey

John 14:15

what I command. Let's reverse the order of that.

In the - it says, if you don't keep my commands, you don't

truly love me. If you don't keep my commands,

you don't truly love me now we know that's not what the Lord

said the. Lord said, if you love me,

you'll keep my commands. But if we reverse, that will

see, there's also truth there to be uncovered.

And so we should examine our lives in line of that.

Because Jesus teaching concerning true love expressed

by obedience, reveals pseudo affection.

Oh doesnít reveal that to us. If our love for Christ is not

true. It is confirmed by a disobedient

lifestyle proving this. Proving that are love that we

claim to have is at best fake and phony.

Let me just assure you this. Nobody likes a fake, or a phony,

even the lost world hates a friend who has to face, right?

You'll hear them use that term often because they're phony,

they say one thing in front of their face and then they stabbed

him in the back when they're away from them.

No one likes that. That's why we why would we

expect the Lord to like that as well?

No understand this. He wants us today to examine Our

Lives because when we examine our lives in light of what he

has said, it could reveal that some of you could reveal that

even I Have a pseudo affection for Christ, the pseudo

affection, a fallacy of farce Adlai.

It's make believe it is a claim without any substance.

First John chapter 2. I told you I would get back to

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verse 4. Let's get back there and see

what it says. It says the man who says I know

him but does not do what he commands is a liar.

It doesn't get any more clear than that and the truth is not

in him. Now again I'm telling you that's

not to say if you obey him he will see that as good and he

will save you. I'm saying this, if he saves

you, he will lead you into obedience and for you to think

that you can claim to love Christ.

And have no obedience to his commands living the same sinful

life that you've always lived continually trying to cover it

up as if it's not there. I say this to you, you have a

pseudo affection for Christ. It is no true.

Love at all for the Savior. I say this in love, I don't say

this because I'm upset, I don't say this to try to get you to

doubt salvation, I say this today, so that you can leave

here with full Assurance of Salvation.

As you bend the need to Christ and you cry out to him as Lord

and Savior and as he takes over your miserable life and he

forgives you of all your sins and grants to you the eternal

life that he and he alone has promise.

I say this to you. So that if you are walking in

the deception of pseudo affection for Christ, meaning

this are you love the idea of Jesus?

Well, you might even love the thought benefits of Jesus.

You might even love coming to church and seeing all your

friend. But when you walk out of here,

You consistently live exactly like the world?

In their sin and in their selfishness and in their

Darkness. Can I say this to you friend?

Please hear my voice that is pseudo affection for Christ.

It is not real. It is only a claim.

How do I know that Jesus said, if you do really love me, You

obey my commands. And when we reverse that, if you

don't obey his commands, you don't really love him.

You say, well, who do you think you are?

I'm a nobody, I assure you of that.

All I have been entrusted to do is to deliver the message of

Christ in here. It is John 14:15.

John 14:15

If you love him you will obey. Him is your love for him.

Just words is it pseudo affection?

Is it authentic? How do we know how do we know if

it's just mere talk, right? That's the question that we

would ask if we begin to examine our life today.

Watch this. You want to know if your

affection for Christ is pseudo, affection, it will be marked by

works of sin. Instead of works of

righteousness, works of sin, instead of works of

righteousness. Luke chapter 6 verse 43.

Luke 6:43

The Lord himself said this, no good tree Bears.

Bad fruit nor does a bad tree bear.

Good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its

own fruit. People do not pick figs from

thornbushes or grapes from Breyers.

What is the Lord saying here in agrarian terms?

What is he meaning? He's saying this, we all know

this, we get apples from an apple tree.

We don't get grapes from an apple tree.

We don't get lemons. From a kiwi tree.

He's saying the tree Bears, the proper fruit.

Is your claim to know Christ? Bearing the fruit of Christ and

what is the fruit of Priceless obedience to his commands?

Just as he said, if you love me, you will obey my commands.

Or if you were to look at your life today.

I know sometimes it's scary to do.

I pray that you would if you were to look at your life today,

Is your claim to love for Christ?

True love proven by obedience or is it pseudo love proven by the

fact that you were still wrapped up in your own sin and your own

self-deceit, many claim to love Jesus but yet deny him by their

lives. But wasn't that an epidemic and

Christianity my prayers this that it would stop today and

that we would as Jesus did call for believers to live.

Holy lives. Set apart from a lost and Dying

World. Isn't that?

Not what eat command. Of course he does even when we

go back to the promise of Abraham that we have been

engrafted into in Christ, the promise to Abraham was that God

was going to raise up a people for his name and for his glory

he would not raise up a people who were not obedient to the

things that he has commanded. I assure you of that pseudo

affection to Christ will be marked by works of sin.

Instead of works of righteousness, your life will be

inundated with sin. You will be the same person that

you've always been. And this is false love for

Christ and no true Faith at all. I would say be aware of this,

we're seeing is accepted more and more and more in our

culture. There is no love for Christ and

disdain for sin. Any longer proven by are

obedient and righteous lives. We can live any way that we want

to live. Claim that we're on the path to

eternal life and I assure you again of what the Lord said he

says, wide is the gate and wide is the road that leads to

destruction. But narrow is the gate and

narrow is the road that leads to life and few find it.

Or you're one of the, are you one of the few today who truly

love Christ and is it proven by obedience to his word and his

commands? Pseudo affection, for Christ,

should be marked by your works of sin.

Instead of works of righteousness, but it will also

be marked by words without obedience words, without

obedience Luke 6:46. Lord says this.

Luke 6:46

Why do you call me? Lord Lord, and do not do what I

say. What a statement?

What a thought-provoking statement?

Because we would never call anyone Lord that we did not obey

and the Lord rightfully. So in Luke chapter 6, ask this

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question, why do you call me Lord, Lord.

And then you turn around and you deny that by not following my

instruction. I would say this to you today.

Why are you calling Lord? Lord and do not do what he says.

Because in doing that, you revealed that he is not bored at

all. That is pseudo affection?

You really don't love Christ. You say, well, you can't say

that I really don't love Christ. No, but Christ came.

And he said it and if you love him, you will obey his commands.

And that if you don't obey his commands, you don't, truly love

him. You are that person who calls

him, Lord, Lord and does not do what he says.

You are one of those persons with words.

Mere words. With no accompanying obedience

mere talkers, empty, talkers as Peter calls him in second, Peter

chapter 2 when he says this, these men are Springs without

water and Miss driven by a storm blackest.

Darkness is reserved for them for their mouth, empty boastful

words and by appealing to them the lustful desires of sinful

human nature. They enticed people who are just

escaping from those who live in error, they promised them

Freedom while they themselves are slaves of depravity for man

is a Slave To whatever has mastered him.

He's speaking of those false teachers, and false prophets in

his day. And he's saying this.

He's saying that these people claimed to know Christ and claim

to love Christ and claim to have freedom in Christ.

But it's only words, they're empty talkers, Jude calls these

same Pretenders clouds Without Rain, if you study the small

book of Jude, we've all witnessed this, haven't we?

Those of us who live on the Texas coast, when we're down

there with our family on the beach.

You know how beautiful the beaches are if you like muddy

sand? You're down there and that storm

blows in off the Gulf and you see it those big black clouds,

man, they develop out there in the the ocean and they began

moving too short and you're picking up kids and you're

flinging Cheetos and blankets and towels and all this stuff

and you got to get back to the car because the rains coming.

You get back to the car and never the first drop of rain,

hits the ground and that cloud blows over you and it doesn't

form rain. So it gets way Inland.

But man, you freaked out. That was a cloud Without Rain.

It was just a facade. It was a pseudo rainstorm

coming. Some of you have accepted this

pseudo, affection for Christ, Your clouds Without Rain your

talk without action, your hot air.

Nothing backing your claim. Jesus says this to you.

Are you listening? It's Gonna Hurt.

Let me warn you. You don't truly love me.

You don't really love me because if you did love me.

You would obey. What I have commanded. so, as

your love for Christ, is it authentic Or is it just pseudo

affection? How do you know examine your

life today? But I'm not going to examine

your life because I promise you this I'm going to be busy.

Examine time. Why?

Because I don't want to settle for pseudo affection because

pseudo, affection falls short I want to love God with all my

heart soul and mind love my neighbor as myself not so that I

can be saved, but because I am truly saved and I want to see

that in every area of my life and I don't mind the Holy Spirit

showing me, I assure you of that when I missed the mark so that I

can what confess that sin and repent of that sin and a lion

with the commands of Jesus Christ.

My Lord and my savior who love me because of his love, for me,

I now can love him in return and how do I express that love.

It's not in just living any way that I want to live with with

but Will disregard to his commands.

I express that love in obedience to his commands.

Did you appreciate Christ then live a life that shows that you

appreciate Christ by being obedient to his command?

The close with this? will obedience to Christ save,

you know, Don't ever leave here and say that I said anything of

the sort. Obedience to Christ will not

save you. However, It will confirm in does

confirmed those who are truly saved a saved person will have a

desire to obey the Savior that they love person that says he or

she has a love for Christ. But has no desire to follow his

will or his commands is only deceiving themselves though.

I think of that person who makes the profession of Faith saying

that they love Christ. And then when you try to get

them in the baptismal pool in obedience to the Lord's,

command, as a, no, I don't want to do that.

What do you mean? You don't want to do that?

That is the First Command that he gives to a Believer to follow

him and Believers baptism, you don't have an option.

Why? Because if you love him, you

will obey his commands. Oh, begins there.

But it continues in our lives where we obeying his word as he

unfolds it to us, as we see those things in our life that we

are deficient in. If we confess those things, it's

as Sin. And entrust in the Holy Spirit

to walk us and carry us into obedience for the glory of God.

Do you love Christ this morning? Do you love Christ this morning?

A fair question in light of the one verse that we read.

Do you love Christ? I would ask that you not examine

your husband to see your wife to see your children or your

neighbor. You would examine yourself

today. You would ask yourself.

Do I have a true love for Christ?

Confirmed by obedience to what it is that he has commanded.

Do I love the Lord? My God with all my heart soul

and mind. Am I loving my neighbor as

myself in that I assure you you will fulfill the decalogue The

Ten Commandments you will walk in obedience to those things.

Just as Christ died for you to walk in obedience to those

things. You stand your feet.

Every head bowed, every eye closed.

Father, we do love you today and we thank you so much for your

word. Lord Jesus.

We thank you that in your word. There is life.

Lord, I pray for the person who's here today and they are

dead spiritually that they have heard the Word of Life today.

I pray that as they examine their lives and they see that

they fall short as Sinners, condemned by sin, that they

would cry out to Christ, the lord Jesus.

The only one who can free them from that.

Condemnation, Lord today as they cry out to you, Lord, as your

grace Usher's, them into new and eternal life.

Lord, that you would Empower them to repent, believe, and

trust in you. And that they would leave here

changed Forever by what you did for them on the cross, where

you've died, where you were, Read and where you Rose again,

giving New Life to all who will believe.

God, I pray that your will would be done today that the seed of

your word would not fall on unfertile ground. but that it

would fall on the hearts that you have prepared today to

receive salvation and on those who are here to rejoice in the

Salvation that they already have received in you, but your will

be done in Jesus name. Amen.

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