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John 15:10

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.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Meekness means gentleness and kindness, no selfishness and self-centeredness, it also has strive to overcome evil by good. To be meek requires real repentance and mourning for own sins. It requires spirit of humility - understanding that I am no better than others to judge, and from this goes meekness – when I restrain myself from movements of anger and overcome the wish to be offended or to offend, and when I do good quietly. No wonder it is one of the Beatitudes mentioned by Christ needed in our spiritual life.

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John 15:11-12
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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John 15:13-14
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

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John 15:15
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

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John 15:16
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

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John 15:17-18
These things I command you, that ye love one another. 18. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

"One cannot help looking upon the whole modern aberration as a kind of last "fall" of man, an imitation on a worldwide scale of the sin of the first man—the desire to be as God, to know fully. And who can say why God allows this— unless it be simply that in the end, as in the beginning, we confront Him.

There was no "reason" for the fall of the prodigal son— and yet how much joy there was on his return. Perhaps after all God "allowed" the modern age for the joy over the reception of repentant sinners at the end of it."

+ Blessed Seraphim of Platina

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John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.