John 14:21

He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: our Lord here doth repeat what he had before said, 1 Thessalonians 14:15, declaring that there is no infallible indication of our love to Christ, but obedience, which is here expressed under two notions.

1. Having Christ's commandments and keeping them: they must both concur to make a true indication of our love to Christ. It is possible that men may have Christ's commandments in their ears, in their notion, in their mouths, and yet not keep them; they may hear them, they may know and remember them, they may talk of them, yet they may not keep them; for keeping them denotes universal, diligent and industrious, steady and constant obedience to them; and this alone will speak our love to Christ.

2. And if any man thus declareth his love to Christ, Christ declareth, that both he and his Father will take a pleasure and delight in him to do him good; and he shall not live only under the real benefits of his love to him, but under the sensible manifestations of it. Here is no mention of the Spirit's coming with the Father and the Son, because the Son dwelleth in us by the Spirit.