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To abide in Christ's love is not to climb toward it but to remain in it: to stay connected to Jesus as a branch stays in the vine, to live out of the love He already gives rather than trying to earn it. Jesus abided in the Father's love by keeping His commandments, and He calls us to do the same. The fruit of abiding is not a feeling but a life: joy, fruit, and love for others that flow from remaining in Him.
https://glorystudy.com/questions/what-does-it-mean-to-abide-in-christs-love · Scripture quoted from the World English Bible
John 15:1-17
As you read: Abide in me, and I in you; the branch bears fruit only as it remains in the vine.
1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
5I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
6If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
8“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
11I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
16You didn’t 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 will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
1 John 4:7-21
As you read: We have known and believed the love God has for us, and love is the proof we abide in Him.
7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
8He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
9By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
17In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
19We love him, because he first loved us.
20If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
Romans 8:31-39
As you read: Neither height nor depth nor anything in creation can separate us from God's love in Christ.
31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
33Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Psalms 36:5-10
As you read: How precious is God's loving kindness; men take refuge under the shadow of His wings.
5Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
7How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
9For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
10Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.
Jesus commands a rest, not a struggle: 'Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.' He says, 'I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.' To abide is to stay connected to the source, to live from the life He gives rather than producing it ourselves.
“Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.”John 15:4
“I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”John 15:5
“Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.”John 15:9
The command is built on a gift already given: 'Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.' John makes the same point: 'We know and have believed the love which God has for us,' and 'he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.' Abiding is not earning His love by staying good; it is remaining in the love He has already poured out on us in Christ, the love nothing can separate us from.
“Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.”John 15:9
“We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.”1 John 4:16
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”Romans 8:38-39
“How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.”Psalm 36:7
Jesus grounds abiding in obedience: 'If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.' He also says, 'If you remain in me, and my words remain in you,' you will ask and receive. Abiding is sustained by the word dwelling in us and by walking in obedience, not as a way to be loved but as the staying place of the already-loved.
“If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.”John 15:10
“If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.”John 15:7
““This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”John 15:12
“No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.”1 John 4:12
Jesus names the harvest of abiding: 'I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full,' and 'in this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.' The first fruit of remaining in the Vine is love for the brothers: 'This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.' Abiding is not a private feeling; it is a life that bears the fruit of love.
“I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.”John 15:11
““In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.”John 15:8
““This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”John 15:12
“I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”John 15:5
Paul describes our standing as 'rooted and grounded in love,' able to 'comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth' of Christ's love, and John insists that 'God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God.' To abide in Christ's love is to live consciously in the truth that you are loved, held, and welcomed by the Father through the Son, and to let that love shape every obedience, every word, and every relationship. It is the air the Christian breathes.
“that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,”Ephesians 3:17-18
“We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.”1 John 4:16
“How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.”Psalm 36:7
“nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”Romans 8:39