Supreme obedience was interpreted to be the expression of love. As the disciples gathered around HIM in the upper room following the paschal meal, JESUS said: If you love ME, you will keep MY commandments. He that hath MY commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that love ME, and he shall be loved of MY Father, and I will love him, and will manifest MYSELF unto him. If a man love ME, he will keep MY word, and MY Father will love him, and WE will come unto him and make OUR abode with him. He that loveth ME not keepeth not MY words, and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent ME. If you keep MY commandments, you shall abide in MY love. This is MY commandments, that you love one another, as I have loved you. Ye are my friends if you do whatever I have told you. ( John 14:15, 21, 23-24,15:10, 12).
