We must be holy, because this is the only proof that we love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. This is a point on which He has spoken most plainly, in the fourteenth and fifteenth chapters of John: "If you love Me, keep My commandments." "He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves Me." "If a man love Me he will keep My words." "You are My friends if you do whatever I command you" (John 14:15, 21, 23; 15:14).
