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We need a deep, residing peace in our soul. We are living in troubling times, but your heart does not need to be troubled. Last week we read the words of Jesus, “Let not your heart be troubled.” He was speaking to the disciples whose world was about to be turned upside down.
Anxiety, worry, and fear are understandable, but just because they are understandable does not mean they are what God wants for you or for me. God speaks to it over and over in His word. “God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a sound mind.”
In John 14, Jesus is speaking to His disciples, they had just finished their last supper together. These are some of the last words Jesus will say to them before He is betrayed, arrested, handed over to his enemies and killed, so these words are extremely significant to them and to us.
In this chapter we read some of the most famous and powerful words that Jesus taught His disciples. “Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me…” And then in verse 6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.”
Then, in verse 15, “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” Jesus repeats that three times in these verses.
Somebody reading that verse might say, “Did Jesus really give commandments? I mean commandment like commandments? I knew there were commandments in the Old Testament, but are there actually commandments in the New Testament? I don’t think I should like the word commandment, it sounds so - command like - so concrete, so definitive, so inconvenient.
“I think He should make suggestions,” they say, “or perhaps He should make recommendations; He could even exhort us, but require? Insist? Expect? Why would Jesus give commandments?”
Maybe it would be comparable to the relationship of a teen to his parents. That’s a good analogy because those are turbulent years when young people are trying to figure out who they are and whether they will agree with the wisdom and direction of their parents or if they will resist at every turn and insist that they are their own boss.
When we were raising our five kids, we tried to communicate that our role was to help transform them; to help transform their character, it was for their blessing and good that we gave certain commandments.
Jesus said, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another.” We had a very similar rule, they had to respect one another, and they had to respect us, but such ‘commandments’ were given to bless and transform them.
In John 14 Jesus said, “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” In other words, these are not commandments you keep simply because it’s the law; these are things you do because you love Jesus and you love His Father and that love causes you to want to do what He says.
At one point in the history of Israel God explained why their lives and their nation were falling apart, saying, “Behold, their ears are closed, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the Lord has become a reproach to them; they have no delight in it.” In other words, they had no love for God and therefore His Word had no value to them.
Here’s an illustration. Many of you are perhaps too young to remember when the Dallas Cowboys were a good football team. Many years ago, they drafted an accomplished quarterback, Roger Staubach. The problem was that he was used to calling all the plays himself, but he was drafted onto a team that was coached by Tom Landry, who was considered a genius in football strategy; and who called every play… That’s the point; many people are used to calling their own plays. But when you love God and trust that He is the way, the truth, and the life, you want to do what He says, because His way is the way of greatest blessing. It’s the way of truth and life.

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