God is love sermon

1 John 4 Sermon Outline

previous weeks in 1 John:

mpt-God is love, we can abide in it and it is perfected in us.

 

1 John 4:7-12 & 15-18
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

9 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.

10 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.

11 Beloved if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us.

15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

16 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.

17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgement, because as he is so also are we in this world.

18 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.

 

“God is love”

 

*God is love*

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

16 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.

he will rejoice over you with gladness;  he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

 

**Since God is love, Love is from God, it is with God’s love that we are to love one another**

sermon on loving others

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

11 Beloved if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Sermon on God is love

***God showed His love by sending Jesus***

 

9 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.

10 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.

Hell shows us the extent of God’s love in saving us. Why did Jesus speak about hell more than anyone else in the Bible? Because he wanted us to see what he was going to endure on the cross on our behalf. On the cross, Jesus’s punishment was scarcely describable: this bloodied, disfigured remnant of a man was given a cross that was perhaps recycled, likely covered in the blood, feces, and urine of other men who had used it previously. Hanging there in immense pain, he slowly suffocated to death.

The worst part was the separation from the Father that Jesus felt, a separation that was hell itself. “My God, my God,” he cried out, “Why have you forsaken me?” (Matt 27:46). In all of this, Jesus was taking the hell of our sin into his body.

People often feel that hell is some great blemish on God’s love. The Bible presents it as the opposite. Hell magnifies for us the love of God by showing us how far God went, and how much he went through, to save us.

 

****why is important for us to know God is love?**** (praise team) 

17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgement, because as he is so also are we in this world. 

18 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.

15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

16 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.

John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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