Commanded To Love - Appointed To Bear Fruit

John 15:12-17   “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another."   Vs. 12-13 - Commanded To Love Like Jesus     Vs. 14-15 - Friendship With Christ Is Followed By Obedience     Vs. 16-17 - Appointed To Bear Fruit and Love One Another       Benediction   Adapted From   Romans 8:38-39     “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor tragedies, heartache, worldly success or anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”