Did You Get The Gift?
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7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
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.
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.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
I. God Sent It
I. God Sent It
A. Sent A Special Gift
A. Sent A Special Gift
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.
God sent His Son is in the perfect tense which refers to something that happen in the past but has continuing results in the present
ONE AND ONLY; UNIQUE; SPECIAL
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
B. Sent A Sacrificial Gift
B. Sent A Sacrificial Gift
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.
GOD ACTS IN LOVE TOWARD US DESPITE THE FACT WE HAD NOTHING TO OFFER. HE DEMONSTRATED LOVE WITH A SACRIFICIAL GIFT
SENT (PAST; A FACT) CHRIST TO BE THE PROPITIATION (SATISFACTION)
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
CHRIST WAS THE SACRIFICE (BODY) AND TO ATONED (BLOOD) OR COVERED FOR OUR SINS
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,
C. Sent A Strategic Gift
C. Sent A Strategic Gift
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.
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Purpose of the Gift
We have life (eternal life) or live (out) through Christ
Christ is the reason and the resource
THROUGH JESUS
Romans 6:23 SAINTS HAVE ETERNAL LIFE
Galatians 4:7 SAINTS ARE AN HEIR OF GOD
Romans 1:8 SAINTS THANK GOD
Romans 5:11 SAINTS JOY IN GOD
Romans 5:1 SAINTS HAVE PEACE WITH GOD
Titus 3:5-6 SAINTS HAVE ABUNDANT MERCY
Philippians 4:13 SAINTS ARE ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS
Romans 8:37 SAINTS ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS
1 Corinthians 15:57 SAINTS HAVE THE VICTORY
II. I Received It
II. I Received It
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
A. Parent (born of God)
A. Parent (born of God)
Received God’s love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
B. Perception (know God)
B. Perception (know God)
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
I KNOW
God’s Remedy for Man’s Ruined life
God’s Pardon for Man’s Pollution
God’s Compassion for Man’s Corruption
God’s Cure for Man’s Curse of sin
God’s Healing for Man’s Hurt
God’s Grace for Man’s Guilt
God’s Mercy for Man’s Misery
God’s Provision for Man’s Problem
I HAVE RECEIVED GOD’S GIFT
God is Love: His quality or His acts are loving
C. Practice (knows God)
C. Practice (knows God)
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Prophet Hosea