John 14:21 Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him."
Why not add John 14:22 to what you are insinuating? Or does that throw a monkey-wrench into it? A verse out of context is a pretext of what's not there.
Why stop there? Why not add John 14:23 (unless,of course it, represents a monkey wrench to your point)?
23- Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him".
Its kind of hard to interpret understand the word "anyone" and being limited or restricted to the Apostles, isn't it?