‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments’ ‘If anyone loves me, he will keep my word’.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these (Mark 12:29-31)

A new commandment I give to you that you love one another as I have loved you. Jn 13

“Those who love me keep my Word”

We are to be People of the Word

We are to be People of the Spirit

v16 I will ask the Father and he will send another Paraclete, to be with you forever

Paraclete – “one who comes alongside”

Paraclete – “one who comes alongside” The Father will send another Paraclete v16

Heteros - another of a different kind Allos – another of the same kind

Paraclete - Helper

Paraclete - Comforter

Bishop Odo comforteth the troops

Paraclete – Advocate or Counsellor

The Holy Spirit brings the life of God into his disciples.

“Hear the word of the Lord “Hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold. I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live” Ez 37:4-5

“And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live” Ez 37:14