John 15:8 Commentary and Bible Study

Continue in the realisation of it. Christ’s love can never fail or diminish, but our enjoyment of it may diminish. His love cannot fail but we can fail to grasp it. The opening of the book of Job depicts (not that it literally happened this way as the passage tells us) Satan approaching God and saying, believers are not genuine; believers don’t worship God for nothing. Job, for example; take away his health, his riches and his family, and he will curse you, because he only follows you for what he can get out of it. Satan believes that every Christian man and woman is really a hypocrite. Every Christian man and woman has no real love for God and grace in his heart and connection with him. Of course, though Job did many and said many unworthy things, essentially he proved Satan wrong: he never let go, he never cursed God. He moaned a lot, but he never lost his faith and his hold on the Lord, and Satan was proved wrong. However much a man is reduced, if he loves the Lord he’s true, he’s genuine, and this is the thought of the eighth verse: ‘Herein is my Father glorified’ – glory is brought to the Father, Satan is proved wrong – ‘that ye bear much fruit’, that you love God, and you improve in holiness and you advance and you witness for Him, because it proves that you are genuine. Look – ‘so shall ye be my disciples.’ So you will be seen to be true, genuine disciples of Christ and followers of God. The fruit will prove Satan wrong and God glorified.