1 John 4:7-5:5 Part 2
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1 John 4:7-5:5
1 John 4:7-5:5
We have a massive statement made twice in this section, that the rest of the section and even the rest of the book is drawing out the implications of.
In fact we are going to spend a couple of weeks looking at the implications in this passage here of this weighty theological statement. So this will be our passage this week and next (2 weeks)
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
There are 6-7 Implications in this passage of GOD IS LOVE, we will look just at the first 2 today.
LOVE ORIGINATES IN GOD
LOVE ORIGINATES IN GOD
Love is above us, love is not from here, its as if love is from another universe, love is a gift to us from the realm of eternity.
What is it that makes your life meaningful?
Why love is the most important thing to us, why do we feel like love is the greatest of all things? Because God is Love.
It-s crucial that you see that God didn’t BECOME love when humans were created, He IS love by his nature and so he has always been love, even when there was nothing and noone.
The story of creation is not that God created the universe and humans so that he could have someone to love, it is that FROM THE BEGINNING, BEFORE CREATION, GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, GOD THE SPIRIT HAVE BEEN IN PERFECT LOVE, The Father loving the Son, the Son . . . and creation flows out of that eternal perfect love.
You and I are not the main character in the love story of the Cosmos, God is, you and I are the gift and expression of the eternal love of the Godhead.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
If the Bible didnt say that, I couldn’t believe it. . . WHAT . . . the way the Father loves the Son!?! You are more greatly loved than you could possibly imagine
THAT’S THE WAY THAT YOU ARE LOVED
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
We love because he first loved us.
John
God is the initiator in this relationship, He is the pursuer, He is the one who set His heart upon us, who came after you, who kept calling, who has carried you
LOVE MANIFESTED IN CHRIST
LOVE MANIFESTED IN CHRIST
That eternal love, was made flesh
Christ displays not just God’s love, but LOVE: sacrificial agape love, most clearly
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Christ is the perfect display of LOVE because of who he sacrifices himself for, not his friends, but his enemies, so that we could be called friends.
The highest form of love is not to love the lovely, but to love the unlovely. Everyone loves the one who is deserving of love, there is nothing particularly special about that. . .
Luther said“God didn’t love us because we are valuable, we are valuable because God loves us”
Ephesians 3:14–19 (ESV)
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, ...may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge
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LOVE MADE VISIBLE IN US
LOVE MADE VISIBLE IN US
We make him Seen
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
TRUE LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR
By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
Bad Dream, its ok, I am here
Coen been coming in our room lately - play a game - safest - in bed with mom and dad
Rom 8 - no condemnation, no separation
FAILING TO LOVE YOUR BROTHER IS FAILING TO LOVE GOD
Have seen, have not seen
TRUE LOVE OBEYS
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
Parent Child
Not Burdensome
TRUE LOVE SACRIFICES
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Supplies physical needs - sacrificing my things
Christ’s sacrifice
Jn 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he GAVE
Rom 5:8 - God demonstrated his love
John 15:13 - greater love has no man than this . .
Eph 5:25 - gave himself up for us
Jn 10:11 - Good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep
Matt 5:43-47.
OVERCOME THE WORLD
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Faith
John 16:33.