And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. (6) And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
Let the Reader observe, with me, how sweetly a life of grace in Jesus, leads to a life of holiness in Jesus. "As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him, rooted and built up in him" (Colossians 2:6-7). It is impossible to be otherwise. Where Christ is, there must be fruitfulness in Christ. Exhortations here are all sweet, and in season. But to exhort the unawakened and unregenerate, is like the rain upon the sands and deserts, which can produce nothing!