15:15
We now get the friendship aspect looked at from the perspective of Jesus towards us. He no longer calls us servants (or slaves), for the servant just obeys his master. He does not have any right to know what the content of the master’s plans are. But Jesus is revealing to His disciples the nature of God’s plans and purposes. We are brought into those plans. We are more than mere cogs in the machine, God reveals His heart to us. Jesus reveals all that the Father has shown Him.
15:16,17
Just in case the disciples think they had earned this privilege, Jesus disabuses them of any such notion. It was not the case that the disciples had earned this by making such a wise decision in leaving their nets and following Jesus. Leaving their nets was indeed a wise decision, but it was Jesus who called them. It was Jesus’ idea, not theirs! Jesus had chosen them in order to bear fruit. He has chosen us for fruitfulness, and that this fruit would last. Then we get another prayer promises, and as with the others it is in the context of the disciples fulfilling the will of God.
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