Required Repetition

John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

Jesus repeated Himself often - not only because He travelled often and the audience changed, but because those that followed Him around, including the twelve, needed to hear Him say things more than once for it to sink in. We're the same way.  In the upper room there were certain topics Jesus repeated: servanthood, the Holy Spirit, obedience, fruitfulness, prayer, and His commandment to love one another.  This is what He chose us for; this is the life we chose when we follow Him, and these are the things we need to be reminded of over and over again.