Jesus didn’t teach His disciples to love Him!
Jesus didn’t teach His disciples to love Him, He taught them why He loved them, and if they would keep themselves in the love He had for them, they would be able to love others in the same way He was loving them.
This was how Jesus taught His disciples to love God. When we know God’s love for ourselves, it is manifested in how we love people.
“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love” (1 John 4:7–8).
You can’t love God and not love people, because loving people is what loving God is all about.
“Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life” (Jude 21).
“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love” (1 John 4:7–8).
“By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another” (John 13:34).
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