Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 15:10-11

"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father`s commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and [that] your joy may be made full." — John 15:10-11 (ASV)

If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

When Christ cannot rejoice in us, you may rest assured that we cannot rejoice in ourselves; but when his grace so operates upon us that he sees that in us which gives him content, then it is that we will feel a blessed content ourselves.

Even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you. (John 15:10–11)

Christ would have his people happy; happy, however, with a holy joy, which is not, therefore, a dim and second-rate joy. It is the very joy of Christ, God's people are to enjoy.

Even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

For, when Christ is not pleased with us, we are not likely to have joy in ourselves, Oh, that we may so live as to please Christ!

Even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you,

That he might rejoice in us—feel a sacred delight in thinking of us as he does when he sees us keeping his commandments, treasuring up his words, and so living in his love, and being mighty in prayer.