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Commentary on John 14 (7)
Next, let’s look at the very important John 14:21.
“He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he who loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”
The old translation of "have and keep the word" is correct.
Having means keeping the word in John 14:20.
This does not mean acting according to the word.
Perhaps, those who have the legal element of acting according to the word did not know the meaning of keeping the commandments, so they omitted the word ‘having’.
However, how important this one word is...
The word "have and keep" means holding on to the Lord’s commandments with your heart like a goalkeeper holding the ball.
“At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.” (John 14:20)
This word must be clearly in your heart like the morning star.
When we embrace and keep the promise of being one with Him in the Holy Spirit, Christ reveals himself in us.
He is revealed as life, power, and glory.
Then we finally come to know the Father.
Knowing the Son and the Father is eternal life.
When the Lord reveals himself to us, we finally know the Father.
The reason the Holy Spirit is precious to us is because he reveals Christ and lets us know the Father.
Let's summarize the content so far.
In chapter 14, the first is the destination and the method.
The second is the answer to Philip's question, "Show us the Father."
Then the third is Judas' question.
Judas said to him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?" (John 14:22)
This person is also asked to reveal the Lord so that he can see it with his own eyes.
When Thomas asked, "We do not know where you go, so how can we know the way?" (John 14:5), the Lord's answer was that I am the answer to your question.
Jesus Christ is the answer to that question.
However, Philip’s question was, “Philip said to him, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us.’” (John 14:8), and the answer at that time was the Comforter, the Holy Spirit.
The Comforter, the Holy Spirit, will show you me and the Father.
The Lord did not say, “I will show you now.”
Peter, James, and John went up to the Mount of Transfiguration and saw Elijah, Moses, and Jesus together, but Peter, James, and John did not hear their conversation.
But through the Holy Spirit, we can hear the voice of the spiritual world.
We cannot hear it with our flesh.
But through the Holy Spirit, we can hear it.
Before the Holy Spirit, Peter, James, and John could see the sight with their eyes, but they could not hear the voice.
The three of them talked about death.
Even when Jesus spoke about dying and rising again, they did not understand.
However, after the Holy Spirit came, as God said later, “hear you him” (Matthew 17:5), they finally heard the words.
When we hear the words of the Son and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, comes to us, the words of the Son permeate us and we can hear them.
So, to Philip’s question, “Show us the Father,” the Spirit of truth is the answer.
And to Judas’ question, not Iscariot’s, the answer is, “He who loves me keeps my word.”
When Judas asks, “Why do you show yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus gives a completely different answer. The difference between the world and you is that “You keep my word, but the world does not keep my word.”
That is because the Spirit of truth does not come to the world.
However, when you keep his word, he says that he reveals himself.
But the world hates to keep the promise of Christ that comes within it.
Humans who fell into sin in Adam like to believe in Jesus and be forgiven of their sins, but they hate the revelation of Christ’s spirit and life along with the forgiveness of their sins because they receive Christ, and there are many elements of the antichrist.
So, false teachers who are not the truth are creating false believers, and false teachers are also being mass-produced according to the principle of supply and demand according to the demands of false believers.
The world does not want to have the Word or keep it.
So the meaning of keeping the commandments of the Lord is now floating in the air.
They say they obey the Word according to the Word, but they are walking the path of lies, lawlessness, and deception by emphasizing to others what they themselves cannot do.
The world has nothing to do with the Spirit of truth and cannot keep the commandments that are one with the Lord.
This is the answer Jesus gave to Judas.
So the characteristics of the world are that there is no word, there is no Holy Spirit of truth, Jesus Christ is not in it, and therefore, they do not know the Father.
Because there is no revelation, they do not honor Christ, who is Emmanuel, and are self-indulgent.
Judas, who belongs to the flesh, knows that He appears in the flesh, but look at John 14:23.
“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘If a man love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.’”
Finally, the word “we will make our home” appears.
It is a great and amazing words.
The Lord said, “I will reveal it only to you and not to the world (them), so that the Father and I may dwell with you because you keep my word.”
This is the difference between the people of Christ and the world.
John 14:24 also says, “He that not love me keep not my saying; and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father’s which sent me.”
What sets us apart from the world is that we have Jesus Christ in us, and we love him and keep his commandments, so the Father and Jesus Christ dwell in us.
This is the word that he might gather together in one in Christ both which in heaven and on earth.(Ephesians 1:10)
All other things that are visible are equal to all human.
That is why there are terms such as natural revelation and special revelation, and general grace or special grace.
Being sanctified in Christ (hagiois) and believing in Christ as Lord (pistois) is not the world but the church.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
COME AND SEE WORLD MISSION
To God be the glory.