“Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can\u2019t come where I am going.”<\/p>\n
“So now I am giving you a new commandment<\/strong>: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.<\/strong> Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples…\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.”<\/p>\n “When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love<\/strong>, just as I obey my Father\u2019s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!”<\/p>\n “This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you<\/strong>. There is no greater love than to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n “You are my friends if you do what I command.<\/strong> I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn\u2019t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.”<\/p>\n “You didn\u2019t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.”<\/p>\n “This is my command: Love each other<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n John 13:33-35, 15:9-17 (NLT)<\/p>\n Christ commands us to become BEST FRIENDS<\/strong> with his disciples immediately when we follow Him<\/p>\n So focus on the words of Jesus in John 13:34-35 (NLT) \u201cSo now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.\u00a0\u00a0 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.\u201d<\/p>\n Do you want Jesus to be your BEST FRIEND<\/strong>? Be honest, have you become BEST FRIENDS<\/strong> with the Christians in the local church? Jesus commands this because He wants the world to marvel and desire Him also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can\u2019t come where I am going.” “So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples…\u201d \u201cI have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.” “When you obey my commandments, you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[48,49,32],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discipleship-3","tag-disciple","tag-freindship","tag-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe commands us to love each other just like He loves us and become BEST FRIENDS<\/strong> with other Christians.
\nIf we do, we then can be friends with Him.<\/p>\n
\nWho are your BEST FRIENDS<\/strong>? Family, neighbors, schoolmates, co-workers? Or Christians?<\/p>\n