{"id":416,"date":"2015-04-15T18:04:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=416"},"modified":"2015-04-15T18:04:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:04:46","slug":"loving-god-and-knowing-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Loving God and Knowing Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jesus speaking:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father&#8217;s which sent me.&#8221;<\/em> John 14:21-24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesus continues:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father&#8217;s commandments, and abide in his \u00a0love.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life fo<\/em>r his friends.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.&#8221;<\/em> John 15:10-14<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus speaking:\u00a0 &#8220;He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.&#8221; &#8220;Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Loving God and Knowing Christ<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}