Wow two in a row. I can ensure you though at our new pace we will most likely not finish the Gospel of John together. I decided to have A.W. Pink step in for me today a use His commentary on this verse. I pray that God strips away any ignorance and press in our hearts the truth.
Extra Credit: I get ask frequently when I mention I travel 3 hours to go to a church what denomination or what kind of church is it. When I say Sovereign Grace they generally are still confused and continue to question so that they may classify me with some major denomination. I offer this short explanation of what and why a Sovereign Grace Church. (This was actually written to a friend that ask this question recently to me online)
Jhn 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
How can we keep His commandments?
(And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father. There are three different senses in which Christians may be considered as objects of the loving favor of the Father and of the Son: as persons elected in sovereign grace to eternal life; as persons actually united to Christ by believing: and as persons transformed by the sanctifying work of the Spirit. It is in this last sense that Christ here speaks. Just as the Father is said to love the Son because of His obedience (John 10:17, 18), so is He said to love the believer for the same reason. It is the love of complacency, as distinguished from the love of compassion. The Father was well pleased with His incarnate Son, and He is well pleased with us when we honor and glorify His Son by obeying His commandments.) – A.W. Pink
