Obedience and Abiding go hand-in-hand. Check this out from John 14 and see if you can see the relationship.

"If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."

...If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him."

- Rob

I used to read that, 'If you love me, you will obey', as one more thing added that we have to do. But I saw it differently one day. It is simply a statement of fact. It is like a litmus test.

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"Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God". Mt. 4:4