"You Are My Friends If You Do Whatever I Command You" John 15:14

Throughout the gospels, Jesus teaches the original twelve disciples those things that they must employ to become one with He and the 

Father, who are One. 

His disciples must "say to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea', and doubt it not in his heart, but believes that those 

things he says will be done (the removal of this mountain; the removal of any confidence in the flesh that he might have), he will have whatever he says." (Mark 11:23)

His disciples must "say to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots, and be planted in the sea', and it would obey you" (removing the roots of offense taken by the sin of a brother). 

(Luke 17:1-6)

His disciples: abiding in Him and His words abiding in them, "will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples." Earlier in that chapter, Jesus says, "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit." (John 15:1-8) Therefore, we MUST ask the vinedresser for His pruning, so that which is producing some fruit will produce much.

These works of faith in Christ Jesus will remove those things that are being shaken so "that the things which cannot be shaken may remain." Therefore, since WE ARE RECEIVING a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, BY WHICH we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear".  
(Hebrews 12:27,28)

His words and commands are backed by the grace, the empowerment, of His Father's kingdom. In these commands, He explains how to be free from the hindrance that resists His calling.

A Warning to the Righteous

"Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done SHALL NOT BE REMEMBERED; but his blood I will require at your hand. Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also you will have delivered your soul."

(Ezekiel 3:20,21)


iniquity- 1. gross INJUSTICE or wickedness. 2. a violation of right or DUTY; a wicked act; SIN. (In this Webster's College Dictionary definition, the word UNEVENNESS is also listed.)

"Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard them; so a BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who meditate on His name. 'They shall be Mine,' says the Lord of hosts, 'on the day that I make them My jewels. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him. Then you shall again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him." (Malachi 3:16-18)

"For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words (Grecian confidence in the flesh), lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, BUT TO US WHO ARE BEING SAVED it is the power of God. For it is written: 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.' Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish (to us) the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message (of the cross) to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but WE preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men." (1 Corinthians 1:17-25)

"FOR YOU SEE YOUR CALLING, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called." (1 Corinthians 1:26)

Do you see it? The message of the cross of Christ is saving those who believe, making them His body! The message of the cross of Christ makes those, who are being saved, His jewels!