Commentary on John 14 (6)

Commentary on John 14 (6) Next, let’s look at John 14:15.“If you love me, keep my commandments.”Keeping the commandments is the measure of our love for the Lord.The degree to which I love the Lord is shown by the struggle to love the Word and make it my own.If there is a christian who agrees with Schopenhauer that heaven is boring, he or she does not know love yet.A long time ago, I asked someone to buy me something. But he or she forgot.I think of many things in that word, “forgot.”When someone you really love says they want to eat a bowl of Jajangmyeon, you won't forget it even if 3 years or 10 years pass.Because the person I love said he or she wanted to eat Jajangmyeon, it never leaves my mind. Likewise, if we love the Lord, we have no choice but to keep his commandments.That is why the Lord repeats the words, “If you love me, keep my commandments.”If you love the Lord Jesus Christ, you always hold His commandments close to your heart.If there are 100 letters from a loved one, we collect 100 letters, and if there are 1,000 letters, we collect 1,000 letters. However, when our love ends, we burn them in fire.In the same way, if we love the Lord, we hold on to his commandments and keep them. Let’s look at John 14:16. “I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever.”Finally, the Comforter appears.The Comforter (Paracletos) appears, and again, the only one who can make fleshly humans spiritual is the Holy Spirit.The word "Para" in Paracletos means beside.The Comforter, the Holy Spirit, is the same as the Lord but is different from the Lord, advising and exhorting us  beside us.In other words, the Holy Spirit acts as a spiritual mother-in-law, saying, ‘It’s not like that, it’s like this.The Holy Spirit is the living Word.The Holy Spirit is the living Word. When Jesus was on this earth, Jesus did that work, but since the Holy Spirit came, the Holy Spirit has been doing that work. Next, let’s look at John 14:17.“Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.”Through the Spirit of truth, the Comforter, he lets us know the Father, saying, “You know him, but the world does not know him.”So even if it is called a church, if it does not know the Spirit of truth, it becomes the world.When Jesus came to this earth historically, he showed everyone that the Father is like this.However, after the Holy Spirit came, he said that he would show Jesus Christ and the Father in secret only to the chosen people through the Holy Spirit.That is why the world still says, “Show me that God exists.”So what should we do?We must show the Father through us who have received the Holy Spirit and receive Jesus Christ, and have the light of life.That is why Jesus says, ‘The works that I have done he will do also; and greater works than these he will do’ (John 14:12).And then he says, ‘I go to the Father.’ If the Holy Spirit comes in you, the words of the Lord saying, ‘I go to the Father,’ will begin to be seen and heard with great intensity. And “I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.” (John 14:18)Earlier, he said  the Comforter. (John 14:16)And it was said that the Spirit of truth (John 14:1717) would come, but who is coming now? The Lord himself is coming.It is the Lord Jesus Christ.Jesus Christ comes through the Holy Spirit, the Comforter.God is the Trinity.In the Old Testament, the Son works in the Father through the Holy Spirit, and at the time of Jesus, the Father worked together in Jesus through the Holy Spirit, and now the Son and the Father work together in the Holy Spirit.That is why they are always the Trinity.They have never been separate. Next is John 14:19.“Yet a little while, and the world see me no more, but you see me: because I live, you shall live also.”"I live, you shall live also."  But did Peter, who saw  the raised Jesus  and the empty tomb with his own eyes, see  the Lord of the resurrection properly at that time? No, he only saw it with his own eyes.They even saw the resurrected body of Jesus only with his own eyes.Peter went fishing even after seeing the resurrected body of Jesus.However, after the Holy Spirit descended in him on Pentecost, he clearly saw Jesus Christ.We must know this fact for sure.That is why God is a fair God.Just because someone saw the resurrected body of Jesus with their own physical eyes, that person does not have any other advantage.Without the Holy Spirit, the attributes of Jesus Christ will never become ours, and we cannot know God the Father.That is why people talk about the Old Testament all day and night.The word, “Because I live, you shall live also” means that I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:40) That is the day.Therefore, a person who has only seen visions or signs can help convey and testify to others about the facts, but it does not help in his own life.The Word does not become real, that is, embodied. In chapter 1 of John, John the Baptist did not see Jesus properly.He only knew that Jesus was the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world and the Lamb who sits on the throne, but he did not follow the fact that Jesus was the grace and truth who ascended and descended from heaven on the third day.This is because John the Baptist was the last prophet standing in the court of the law.That is why it is said that the incident of invading heaven began after John the Baptist.John the Baptist also saw Jesus only in the flesh.That is why he did not change until the day he died. He was beheaded for needlessly interfering in political corruption.However, the Lord's disciples met Jesus and dwelled with him.Among them, Peter eventually turned into A stone, just as Jesus said, "You are Simon, but you will be Cephas" (John 1:42).Those who dwell with Jesus are changed, but those who see Jesus in the flesh are not changed.If you go to 1 John, how does the Apostle John testify?He testifies that we have heard, seen, looked at, and handled Christ, the Word of life. (1 John 1:1)This is not a statement about the event of meeting Jesus’ body, but rather that our hearts and minds handle the Lord in the Holy Spirit of truth.This is truly seeing and handling the Lord. Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.Translated by  Nancy Chung COME AND SEE WORLD MISSION To God be the glory.