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John15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Jesus stated that only one was good, his Father YHWH while on earth. Moreover, we know that Christ is the faithful slave, because his Father glorified Christ upon his resurrection to His right hand in heaven. But here Christ tells his disciples that they were no longer servants, and/or slaves, but friends, what are we to think because most of Christ disciples continued to be called a slave/servant of Christ after his death and resurrections?

1 Corinthians 3:5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

1 Corinthians 4:1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

2 Corinthians 4:5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake

Christ Jesus did not say they were faithful slaves, as he himself had become, but rather his friends, but why had they become his friends? Shortly, Christ was to be put to death in his flesh and raised in spirit there seated at his Fathers right hand. Upon this glorification would come the out pouring, and anointing of God's Holy Spirit upon Christ disciples, they would be born again, born again from what, and into what, is the key? They would be born again from the judgment of sin into a sinless life of the newly resurrected Son of God.

Heb.1:1 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 1:2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. 1:3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Romans 6:22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

2 Corinthians 3:6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

From a servant of sin, into being freed from their sins, subsequently, and their judgment of being a sinner, which is death. Yes, they had received Christ Jesus death and resurrected life, but why? Simply put, one cannot have a transplanted living organ, without receiving the life of the body. The transplant is no longer a part of the old life from which it came, it now has become a part of a new life, and intimate part of a person body. It is dead to the old life, reborn as it where into the new life.

Romans 6:18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Romans 7:6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Prior to Christ Jesus eternal life there was a separation for his disciples lives under sin and Christ righteousness. Hence, they could not possibly know the Christ as they would now know him as a meaningful member of his own eternal spirit raised into heaven. Hence, the Christ words regarding being of the true vine, which is stated above in this part of John's letter becomes truth when Christ tells his disciples, they can do nothing apart from his life.

John 15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

A transplanted organ can do nothing of its own initiative, it cannot produce anything for the body unless it receives the life of the body, it cannot do any works of the body without the life of the body nourishing it protecting it by the life of the body. Although, now friends knowing the Christ intimately as body members, yet, servant members too the body of Christ, as are our own hands servants to the needs of our own body.

Colossians 2:19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.

1 Corinthians 12:25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

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