16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, 17 the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. I am absolutely convinced that this is the right way for us to live.John 14:15-21 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. We must thus love God the most and live according to His will. Like this, our lives should be led while serving the Lord, loving other souls, and loving each other. And united together in cooperation, we must preach the Truth, the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit, to all those who still do not know the Lord. Despite our insufficiencies, we must still cherish each other and love one another. And if we ever go astray, we must remember what the Lord told us and return to our place of faith to love the Lord the most. Even though we are insufficient, we must try our utmost to keep the Lord’s commandments on this earth, and we must obey them by faith. We must obey the Word of the Lord commanding us not to have any other gods before Him. This means that all our hearts must be devoted to keeping the Lord’s commandments. There must not be anything that we love more than the Lord. There is no one who is more worthy of respect than the Lord.Īlthough you and I are insufficient, at least our hearts must always abide in the Lord. How about us then? Do these figures deserve our utmost respect? As the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, you and I respect the Lord the most. Some people respect certain scientists, others respect certain philosophers, and still others say that they respect some other figures. Like this, everyone has someone whom he respects. And Wonhyo the Great Monk also is a respectable figure because of his teachings and virtues. During the Japanese invasion of Korea in the 1590s, Admiral Yi defeated the far larger Japanese fleet single-handedly and repeatedly. Of course, Admiral Yi does deserve our respect because he is the greatest admiral in the history of Korea. To me, these answers sounded so funny that I laughed out loud. Then, another renowned preacher next to him said that he respected Wonhyo the Great Monk who lived about 1,400 years ago. I once heard a famous preacher in Korea saying that he respected Admiral Yi Sunshin the most when asked about whom he held in the highest regard. These things I command you, that you love one another.” You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you abide in My love. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit so you will be My disciples. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit for without Me you can do nothing. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
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