Every ‘Christian’ says they love God; I put single quotes around the name Christian because not everyone who uses the name should.  Christian was a name that those in Antioch gave the disciples; the disciples did not call themselves Christians, others did.  And, what makes a child of God a disciple of Jesus the Christ?  Well, first let’s look up and find out what a disciple is.  I just looked up disciple in the Greek and in the Webster’s dictionary and on dictionary.com and there is one word that they all have in common, the word pupil.  A pupil is one who learns and follows instructions, a disciplined learner.  You know as well as I that not all children of God are disciplined learners.

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Many of these children choose the easy path: God never said that the path to a real life in heaven was going to be easy.  There is a song that says the easy way is not easy at all; actually, it should say easy does not make it right.

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Anyway, these disciplined learners were doing what their teacher, Jesus, told them to do.  Let me share this scenario with you.  One day after Jesus was crucified, the news hadn’t travelled to Antioch yet, an official in Antioch wanted to see Christ, he knew of the miraculous works of Christ.  So, an aid of this official looked out the window and saw a man laying hands on a blind man and the blind man beginning to act like he could see again.  He marveled.  Then he looked in a different direction and saw a man who was known to be demon-possessed, everyone was afraid of him, walking and calmly chatting with another disciple.  He marveled.  Then He was another disciple dancing with a known lame man, another praying with a dirty drunk, another doing something else, and so on and so forth.  He went to his boss and told him what he had seen.  His boss said, “Christ has multiplied; now there are many of him.  We’ll call these Christians or many Christs.”  You will notice; the disciples did not call themselves Christians—they didn’t want to be so presumptuous.  They just loved their Lord and Rabbi.

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Which brings me to a simple question: Do you love Jesus, the one whom you call Lord?  The children of God who had confessed Him as Lord all did in that time.  But times have changed, people have changed—or have they?  Have the people really change or has the easy way been preached and taught so much that people have come to the conclusion that since they have confessed Jesus as Savior and, possibly, Lord they have fulfilled God’s requirements and they are heaven bound, and nothing can stop that.  Satan is laughing.

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So, you say you love Jesus.  Well, that’s great, but now prove it.  He said “If you love me you will do what I say,” the operative words there are “will do.”  And, what did He say in John 14:12?