An Additional Commandment.

Joh 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments. 

Joh 14:16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 

Joh 14:17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 

Joh 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 

If you love Jesus you will keep His commandments.

If you keep Jesus' commandments He will pray to the Father.

The prayer Jesus is praying is for us to have another Comforter that will abide with us forever.

The Comforter Jesus wants His Father to give to us is the SPIRIT OF TRUTH.

SPIRIT OF TRUTH.

The Spirit of reality, because truth is reality, truth is real.

The world CANNOT receive the Spirit of Truth. Why can't the world receive the Spirit of Truth? Because the world can't see the Spirit of Truth, the world can't know the Spirit of Truth. 

We can KNOW the Spirit of Truth.

The Spirit of Truth will live in us!

We will NOT be comfortless.

Jesus will come to us.

Truth, the reality of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

So, the question is- what are the commandments of Jesus?  Some say He did away with Moses' commandments as if they really were Moses' and not God's.  They were God's commandments given to Moses to give to the people. Why would Jesus do away with the moral ten commandments God wrote in stone? Why? Was there something wrong with God's commandments? Jesus kept them from His youth on up and there was NO big revolt over keeping them noted anywhere. Why would there be a revolt over God's commandments? Where are they flawed? Could God even give flawed commandments? God did reveal a set of laws - ceremonial laws that were a figure of the true- and once the true fulfilled the same purpose of the ceremonial law there was no need for that, but never did He do away with any flawed commandments.

If you take the time to read the initial giving of the ten commandments and follow through to when Jesus lived upon the earth before His death, you'll notice things like this-

Mat 15:3  But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 

Mat 15:4  For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 

Mat 15:5  But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; 

Mat 15:6  And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. 

They were rebuked for NOT following one of the commandments of those bundle of ten.  The commandment of GOD.

Mat 22:36  Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 

Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 

Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment. 

Mat 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

The GREAT commandment in the law of ten is- LOVE the LORD THY GOD with all thy heart and with all thy soul and all thy mind.
The SECOND GREATEST commandment in the law of ten is- Thou shalt LOVE they NEIGHBOR as thyself.

On THOSE TWO COMMANDMENTS…. get this.. I mean really comprehend this… on those two hang ALL.

And if you did read the ten commandments you'd know that the first four commandments of the ten are focused on God, the last six are focused on our neighbors (all people).

Now let me ask you something, when you get an additional piece of information that you add to other information it's new information, isn't it? When I get a new rule it doesn’t necessarily do away with the old rules does it? Can you imagine having a set of household rules.. Pick up after yourselves, put your clothes in the hamper, take the garbage out every other day, etc; and you tack those rules up for others in the household to pay attention to. Now after several years you realize there is a new rule you have to introduce because circumstances changed in your household.  You take those old rules and put the new one at the bottom, right? You don't want the old rules to be done away with- why would you?! They were good rules, and still are good rules. So you write down-  no taking the car without getting permission first from both parents.  You see, you had to add that now because the children are getting older and it is now relevant.

Remember this when you read the following verse-

Joh_13:34  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

People could NOT love each other as Jesus loved them until Jesus was there to love them! Circumstances changed. Jesus added a new commandment to the old commandments.  Because He had been with mankind living among them, teaching them on a very personal level He could now command them to love as He loved. That commandment wouldn't have been feasible if given before He'd come to them and showed them His love -having become flesh to dwell among them.

Jesus' new commandment didn't wipe out the other commandments, not at all. Those moral commandments are for always. There will never be a time we shouldn't have God first in our lives, and there will never be a time we shouldn't love each other, and in those two commandments you find all ten written by the finger of God Himself and given to man.

So is it any wonder our Savior tells us that if we keep His commandments it is a revelation of loving Him? And if we keep His commandments we will have the Spirit of TRUTH.  There is spirt in each commandment, there is truth, there is reality in all of them.   We need the Spirit of Truth in us and by the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior we will have the Spirit of Truth in us, now and forever!

All in the love of our amazing Savior, our Lord, Jesus Christ!!!!!!!