“No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” - John 15:15 (NASB)
Do you consider yourself a Friend of Jesus? He considers you His friend if you have believed in Him as the Son of God who came into this world. He came to pay the penalty of sin that each person who believes in Him was born with. Jesus tells his disciples that their relationship with Him was changing. We all might properly be considered bond servants or slaves who obey our Lord out of love. But we are more than that, we are His friends. Jesus has shared his plans with us in the Bible just as he had shared with His disciples. One of those plans was to send the Holy Spirit who now lives in each of us. This is a promise that God shared with us as well. Barclay* writes, “The friends of the king were those who had the closest and the most intimate connection with him and who had the right to come to him at any time.” God has given us that right. We can come before Him as a friend of Jesus, as our advocate. What Jesus has made known to us from His Father has been revealed in the Bible.
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* Barclay, William. The Gospel of John. 2 vols. The Daily Study Bible series. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1963.
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