John 14:21 - Exposition

Then for a moment he turns from the eleven, and stretches out his searching gaze and far-sweeping love to every one who hath my commandments as a sure possession and lofty privilege and sufficient standard, and keepeth them , thus proving that he it is that loveth me ; returning thus back to John 14:15 , where he said that love would induce and ought to compel to obedience; and he adds another and wonderful benediction: He will be loved by my Father , in a sense more intense than that in which God is said to love the world ( John 3:16 ). God the Father loves those who love the Son, i.e. love the object of his own superlative affection. But who can this wondrous Being be who adds, as a climax of privilege and honor, as though it were more even than the love of the Father, I will love him, and will manifest myself in him (not ἀποκαλύψω or φανερώσω ), not merely "disclose an undiscovered presence" or make evident a hidden glory, but I will take special means to disclose my Person and nature and goodness to him? Christ will do this to those who have and keep his commandments of self-forgetting love and perfect consecration. This remarkable word, ἐμφανίσω , implies that the scene and place of the higher manifestation will be " in " ( ἐν ) the consciousness of the soul. "The kingdom of God is within men.