HOW TO SEE JESUS  7/09/10

John 14:19-24 NKJV

"A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.  At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.  He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."

Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?" Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.  He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.

WORD TO PONDER:  DO YOU WANT TO SEE ME?  7/09/10

Yes, I know you want to see Me.  I also want you to see Me. Beloved one, I clearly said how.  If you love Me, you will KEEP MY WORD.  And I will love you and manifest Myself to you.  The more you keep My Word, the more I will reveal Who I AM, how I feel, what I want, why I delay, and where I AM working in your life. 

Luke 8:15 NKJV

But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it {2722} and bear fruit with patience.

NT:2722

katecho (kat-ekh'-o); from NT:2596 and NT:2192; to hold down (fast), in various applications (literally or figuratively):

KJV - have, hold (fast), keep (in memory), let,  make toward, possess, retain, seize on, stay, take, withhold.

John 14:22-24 NKJV

Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?" Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.  24 He who does not love Me does not keep {5083} My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.

NT:5083

tereo (tay-reh'-o); from teros (a watch; perhaps akin to NT:2334); to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from NT:5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from NT:2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried):

KJV - hold fast, keep (-er), (pre-, re-) serve, watch.