![]() ![]() He defines it by His kindness, His generosity, His goodness and His redemptive grace. The moral law would operate, the soul would die, eternal justice would damn the soul. If God was only Law, He would leave me to the consequence of their sin. Eph 4:15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head-Christ. Love does not define God, God defines love. If we then know God, if the life of God is in us and the light of God is in us, then the love of God is in us. If you're going to call yourself a Christian, if you're going to say you are God's and you belong to God and you truly are His, then conduct yourself as He would, with love. God is light(truth demonstrated in our life) and God is life. Reason number one, because love is the fundamental nature of God Here it is a demonstration of the life of God in us. Who chooses out of that love sacrificial service because there is a need for that service and an opportunity for that sacrifice. It is love that chooses to love because there is a need to be loved, no matter how unattractive the person might be. V7-8 It's a love basically that is granted to someone who needs to be loved, not to someone who somehow is attracting that love. These are the three reasons Christians are to love one another: first, because God is love and we are of God second, because God loved us in Christ and so revealed his love to us and third, because God is at work in us by his Spirit to bring that love to completion. The chapter 2 section was a few verses, the chapter 3 a little more, and the chapter 4, more yet. Third time it means God dwells in you.Īnd so, typical of John in this epistle, cycling back through the same great moral proofs and doctrinal proofs of salvation, but always with a richer and deeper purpose.Īnd so John comes for the last time to this theme, with greater depth, greater breadth, greater insight. This time he identifies it as that perfect love which is not just a proof of fellowship, not just an evidence of sonship, but a manifestation of the presence of God in us. . ![]() Second time it means you belong to the family of God Himself ![]() Second, love is the evidence of our sonship. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.įirst, love is the proof that we're in the fellowship.įirst time he's saying it means you belong to the community of believers. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. ![]()
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