Jesucristo, el hijo de Dios, showed His great love for His Father and those, whom He called His friends by laying down His life. Aquellos, who would give heed to His call and believe in Jesus and accept Jesus as Saviour and Lord and would follow Him by doing whatsoever He commanded, would be a friend of Jesus. ¿Eres amigo de Jesús??
When are you a friend of Jesus?
God sent His Son Jesus to the earth with a mission. Jesus obeyed His Father and did what His Father had commanded Him to do. Jesús walked in love, by keeping the commandments of His Father. By keeping the commandments of His Father, Jesus walked in obedience to His Father in His will and established the law.
As God sent Jesus to the earth and Jesus obeyed His Father by keeping His commandments and therefore doing His will, Jesus has also sent His disciples and expected them to obey Him and keep His commandments and do His will on earth (Leer también: ‘Los mandamientos de Dios y los mandamientos de Jesús.').
Although Jesus spoke these words to His disciples back then, Jesus still speaks the same words to His disciples today.
The words of Jesus and His commandments still apply and still contain the same life, paz, y poder.
Jesús dice, que todo el mundo, who keeps His sayings and does His commandments is His friend.
His commandments are the same as the commandments of the Father, which Jesus kept and walked in.
Because the commandments of the Father, que están escritos en la ley, represent the will of God and can be summarized by two commandments, namely love God with all your heart, alma, mente, y fuerza, and love your neighbour as yourself (Leer también: ¿Amas a Dios con todo tu corazón?? y ¿Qué significa amar a tu prójimo como a ti mismo??)
The disciples of Jesus had laid down their own lives
This is My commandment, That you love one another, como yo te he amado. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do whatsoever I command you (John 15:12-14)
Jesus spoke these words to His disciples, whom Jesus had called and had given heed to His call. They had laid down their own lives and their daily occupations, including their jobs, and submitted themselves to Jesus by being with Him, following Him, listening to Him, being taught by Him, and doing what Jesus commanded them to do.
Jesus represented the Kingdom of Heaven and made the Kingdom of Heaven known by His words and His deeds. So that His disciples would get to know this Kingdom. Jesus discipled them and shared His wisdom, conocimiento, and life with them.
After Jesus had made the Kingdom of God known to them by His words and by demonstrating the Kingdom of Heaven in power, Jesus commanded His disciples to go in His Name; en su autoridad, and preach and bring the Kingdom of Heaven to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Leer también: Trae a los perdidos a casa!).
His disciples obeyed Jesus and went two by two in His authority and preached and brought the Kingdom of Heaven to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, by preaching the gospel, expulsando demonios, y curar a los enfermos.
The disciples were not yet born again. They were still the old creation. But Jesus had given them authority over the whole army of the enemy and nothing would by any means hurt them. Esta espectáculos, that you don’t have to be born again to perform signs and wonders, and i.e. cast out demons and heal the sick.
The mind sanctified through the words of Jesus
Santifícalos a través de Tu verdad: Tu palabra es verdad. As Thou hast sent Me into the world, así también yo los he enviado al mundo. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, para que ellos también sean santificados por medio de la verdad (John 17:-17-19)
The disciples had renewed and sanctified their minds with the words of Jesus, que derivó del Padre. They were sanctified (set apart for God, dedicated, purified, or consecrated) through the truth of God. Sin embargo, they were not able to understand and bear everything that Jesus told them, since they were still the old carnal creation, who were unspiritual.
Todavía tengo muchas cosas que deciros, pero ahora no podéis soportarlos. Howbeit when he, el Espíritu de verdad, ha llegado, Él te guiará a toda la verdad: porque no hablará de sí mismo; sino todo lo que Él oiga, que Él hablará: y Él os mostrará las cosas que han de venir (John 16:12-13)
The coming of the Holy Spirit
When Jesus took place on the propiciatorio at the right hand of God the Father and God sent the Holy Spirit to the earth and the disciples, who were together in the upper room praying in one accord, recibió el Espíritu Santo, their spirit was raised from the dead and they understood the words of Jesus.
El otro Consolador; the Holy Spirit had come, whereby they had received the power that Jesus had promised and they had to wait for in Jerusalem. The same Holy Spirit; el Espíritu de verdad, who dwelled in Jesus, dwelled in them.
When the disciples of Jesus had received the Holy Spirit and had become a new creation and spoke in new tongues, as Jesus had promised and commanded, they were able to boldly speak the words of God and be witnesses of Jesus Christ, el Mesías; el Hijo del Dios vivo; the Creator of the heaven and the earth and representatives of the Kingdom of Heaven and call the people to repentance.
They were no longer focused on signs and wonders, as before, when they were still the old creation and were excited about the fact that the evil spirits obeyed them, but they were focused on saving the lost souls, by preaching Christ crucified, salvation, arrepentimiento, y regeneración (Leer también: Siguiendo a Jesús por las señales y prodigios).
El Espíritu Santo, Who lived inside of them, reproved the world of sin, y de justicia, y de juicio (John 16:8-11).
The disciples preached this message, the gospel of Jesus Christ, first to the people of Israel and then to the Gentiles.
Through regeneration the disciples had become a new creation; hijos de dios (esto se aplica tanto a hombres como a mujeres). They obeyed the words and commandments of Jesus and walked in the will of the Father.
They represented the Kingdom of Heaven, spoke the words of Jesus, preached the truth of God, and called the people to repentance and the signs and wonders followed them.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do whatsoever I command you (John 15:12-14)
Jesus had shown His love for His friends by laying down His own life for His friends. He gave His life by dying on the cross and becoming the substitute for His friends. Jesus bore their sins upon Himself and took the punishment for sin, que es la muerte, for His friends upon Himself, so that they would not have to bear the punishment for sin and wouldn’t see the death. That was the great love, Jesus walked in. Jesus stayed obedient to His Father and didn’t love His own life until death.
Almost all His disciples, except Jude, answered His love that Jesus had shown them.
They answered His love, by laying down their own lives for Jesus and following Him by walking after His commandments.
They didn’t belong to the world anymore and were no longer a friend of the world. But they belonged to the Kingdom of Heaven and were a friend of Jesus (Jaime 4:4).
By laying down their own lives, obeying His words and commandments, and by doing His will, and not being ashamed of Him, they showed through their lives, that Jesus was their Friend, and that they were a friend of Jesus, and that they loved Him.
They were a friend of Jesus and spent time with Jesus and had an experiential relationship with Him.
They stayed obedient to Jesus and testified of Jesus to the people, despite the resistance, odiar, persecucion, burla, imprisonment, abuso, stoning, etc..
Despite all these things, they stayed faithful to their Friend Jesus and remained in His love, by keeping His commandments until the day they died (Leer también: ¿Confiesas a Jesús o niegas a Jesús delante de los hombres??).
Many Christians call Jesus Friend
This people draweth nigh unto Me with their mouth, and honoureth Me with their lips; pero su corazón está lejos de Mí. But in vain they do worship Me, Enseñando para las doctrinas los mandamientos de los hombres (Mateo 15:8-9)
Many Christians call Jesus their Friend and sing, that they are friends of Jesus and love Jesus. But if you look at their lives and their walk, what proof is there, that they are friends of Jesus and that they love Him?
Everyone can say and sing all kinds of things, but what are the fruits of someone’s life? How much time do they spend daily with Jesus; the Word and listen to Him? Do they pray? Do they abide in Him and do what He says, and what He has said and commanded in the Bible? Or do they listen to their flesh and what the world says? What are they doing and what aren’t they doing what Jesus has commanded His disciples?
Desafortunadamente, muchas personas, who claim to be believers and say they have a relationship with Jesus, live in their daily lives as enemies of God, Jesús, y el espiritu santo.
Many live in desobediencia a la palabra, as enemies of the cross. They don’t walk as the new creation after the spirit in obedience to the Word and the Holy Spirit. But they walk as the old creation after the flesh in obedience to sin and death.
Jesus broke the power of sin and death
Many people don’t acknowledge the fact, that Jesus broke the power of sin and death through His death at the cross and His resurrection from the dead. They do believe, that Jesus has taken and carried the sins of the world upon Him, but they don’t believe that Jesus broke the power of sin. Because if they believed this, many lives would be so different than what they are today. They wouldn’t walk as workers of iniquity and live as slaves of sin, which God has made known through the law and Jesus has endorsed (Leer también: Do Christians believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ?).
The sin killed Jesus and led Him to death, but the death was not strong enough to keep Jesus in Hades. (Leer también: The sin killed Jesus)
The devil doesn’t want Christians to find out the truth. He doesn’t want them to know, that sin has no more power over someone, who has laid down his flesh.
He wants to keep believers in his power. Therefore the devil makes them believe that they will always sigue siendo un pecador and never get rid of sin and death.
But that’s a lie that many Christians believe, because they don’t read, and study the Bible themselves and therefore they don’t know the Word.
They say and sing they are a friend of Jesus, Pero en la realidad, they don’t spend time with Jesus and don’t know Jesus and their lives don’t belong to Him.
Many Christians have not given up their lives for Jesus, as a friend would do. They don’t serve Jesus through their lives, but the devil, who works in the flesh. Their flesh is still alive and still dictates their lives.
Many are called but few are chosen
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, te digo, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able (lucas 13:24)
Many people are called, pero pocos son los elegidos. That’s because many people are not willing to lay down their own life. Their love for Jesus is in reality not as big as they confess and sing with their words.
No todo el que me dice, Caballero, Caballero, entrará en el reino de los cielos; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven. Muchos me dirán en aquel día, Caballero, Caballero, ¿No hemos profetizado en Tu Nombre?? y en Tu Nombre has echado fuera demonios? y en Tu Nombre hizo muchas obras maravillosas? Y entonces les profesaré, Nunca os conocí: apártate de Mí, vosotros que hacéis la iniquidad (Mateo 7:21-23).
Although these believers prophesied and did many signs and wonders in the Name of Jesus, they didn’t have a relationship with Jesus and didn’t live according to the will of the Father (Leer también: La voluntad de Dios versus la voluntad del diablo.).
When these believers, who called Jesus their Lord, came to Jesus and said they had prophecied in His Name, Expulsar demonios, and done many wonderful works, Jesús les dijo, that He never knew them and commanded these workers of iniquity to depart from Him.
It seemed as if they belonged to Jesus by their prophesying, expulsando demonios, and by all the wonderful works they did in His Name, but from the inside, they were unchanged and were still the antigua creación.
Their lives were still the same as before their arrepentimiento. They still did those things that opposed the will of God. Although their works seemed spiritual and coming from the Spirit, their works were carnal. Because Jesus didn’t know them.
Today there are also many Christians, who call Jesus their Lord and go out in His Name and prophecy, expulsar demonios, and do many signs and wonders, but they don’t know Jesus personally and don’t have a relationship with Him. They don’t spend time with Jesus and don’t abide in Him and don’t do what He; the Word says and don’t live after the will of the Father but keep doing the works of the flesh and walk in sin (Leer también: Un Jesús falso, who produces counterfeit Christians).
Although they do supernatural works and a part of the great commission, they are workers of iniquity (Leer también: 'The secret of the law' y 'The difference between the law and grace').
Despite their words and signs and wonders, they walk after the flesh and live like the world. En lugar de posponiendo al viejo y poniéndose el hombre nuevo and living as the new man, who bears the fruit of the Spirit, they remain the old man, who bears the fruit of the flesh; the same fruit as the world.
¿Eres amigo de Jesús??
He that has My commandments, y los mantiene, él es el que me ama: y el que me ama, será amado de mi Padre, y lo amaré, y me manifestaré a él (John 14:21)
Do you answer His love, pasando tiempo con Jesús, listening to Him, and doing what He says? Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus? Are you a friend of Jesus and have you laid down your life for Him and do you keep and obey His commandments? Or…..
'Sé la sal de la tierra’
