Joh 15:10, 11  "If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.  These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full."

Obedience to God is like doing what you have always wanted to do, becoming what you were meant to become, finding the greatest, most satisfying joyful place you could imagine, but you couldn't have imagined it  as good as it is in reality. Abiding living in the love of God, experiencing the love of God, loving to do His will, this is eternal, full, heavenly joy.

 1Co 2:9, 10  "But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"--  these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God."

This is following God, doing His will, being Christ-like. Loving one another as Christ loves us.

Choosing to love first, He loved us first and chose us before we could choose Him. He is Absolute Love.

Joh 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."

You will not always be loved in return. You will not always be tolerated or accepted. You will carry the stench of death to those who are perishing and they will not like it one little ounce or gram.


2Co 2:15, 16  "For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?"

Joh 15:18 - 20 "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.  If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours."

The haters hate because they do not know God. Though they are not excused for not knowing. God has spoken in the world through His Son. He is Yeshua Messiah. He is Isa Al Masih. He is Jesus Christ. He is Yahweh! He has spoken from the beginning. Creator and giver of all things. Judge and Advocate. 


Col 1:13 - 20 "He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,  in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him.  And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.  And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross." 

All is fulfillment of His Word and His will. 

Joh 15:21 - 25 "But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause."

We carry the fragrance of Christ because we are the vessels of the perfume of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of the Father, sent from the Son. He flows out in witness through us. 

Joh 15:26, 27  "But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning."

The Spirit is the the seal the stamp upon you enabling you to stand and not fall. In His power you will endure through mistreatment and persecution. 


2Co 1:20 - 22 "For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.  And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee." 

"Know this'; Jesus says, "They do this because they don't know Me or Father God." 

Joh 16:1- 3  "I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.  And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me."

"I want you to know this before it happens." "Don't be surprised, remember when this happens that this is what to expect." "It is not a defeat, it is fulfillment giving surety to you of your standing with Me in Love." " I was with you and now the Spirit of God will be with you."  

Joh 16:4  "But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. "I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you."