You must receive Christ as your Master and Lord. A Christian is one who follows Christ. This means the surrender of the whole life to Him. The heart must be given up. There can be no Christian life, without love to Jesus. Jesus demands the first place in the affections of His followers. If anyone loves father or mother, brother or sister, wife or child, more than Him, he is not worthy of Jesus, and cannot be His disciple.
But the most perfect obedience, if the heart is not in it, would not make one a Christian.
We might devote our life and strength to Christian work, toiling unweariedly in the service of the church, giving our money lavishly for the advancement of Christianity or for the relief of suffering and yet not be Christians. Love for Christ must be the motive at the heart of all our work for Christ. "Do you love Me?" is the test.
[J. R. Miller]
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John 14:15 ... If ye love me, keep my commandments.
2 John 1:6 ... And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
John 15:10 ... If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.❤
