For it is such kind of love as ought to create, and must, a deep, all-revolutionising ferment, in the moral nature. We do not render service to a taskmaster. 1 John 1:5-2:2 Every Christian is to be a testifier. V. LET US NOW EXHIBIT THE MONUMENTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS OF THIS LOVE. Chester McCalley . Rightly regarded, even winter testifies that "God is Love." What breathes in the government, What pulses in its acts, what is expressed in its laws, is the very life of God. We can say concerning His love that it has never been diminished by all the sins we have ever committed since we believed. But freedom is not the same as immunity from conditions. Love MAY BE CONSIDERED TO SUBSIST IN THE DIVINE NATURE UNDER THE FOLLOWING MODIFICATIONS. Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. 1. What tremendous powers of motion and commotion, what dissolving, recomposing forces come upon, or into a soul, when it suffers the love of God. 1 John 4:16, ESV: "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 giveth us richly all things to enjoy." Apart from justice, goodness is impossible. General Epistles c. It is much like a child saying to his parent, "If you really loved me, you would let me have nothing but a coke for lunch every day and eat nothing but hot fudge sundaes for dinner every night.". John goes on to say that perfect love cast out all fear. God is love, contemplated in Trinity. We do not seek to be good for the sake of reward, for love's service is given for love's sake, and not for fee or gain. The Purpose of Advent. Better still, this eye sees Christ in every human being. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. Under the spiritual are of course included thought, conscience, and emotion. of Scripture. You may insert it in your confession, but I will not put it into my song. d. I have no fear of my eternal future. And this revelation reaches its clearest, fullest, and most influential development in Jesus Christ the Son of God. "Now judgment fears, no more alarm I dread not death nor Satan's power, The world for me has lost its charm God's grace sustains me ever hour I'm overshadowed by His mighty love, Love eternal changeless, pure, Overshadowed by His mighty love, Rest is mine, serene secure. Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. Pentateuch To ask what more A sinner of mankind, doing the utmost possible, can be expected or required to do. The love of Jesus for His own is a SANCTIFYING LOVE. If we are afraid of them, we shall be timid, scrupulous in all work which comes under their eye, and along with our dread we shall cherish a subtle dislike. Love seeks the highest good, and therefore love sets out the field of life in such a sort that the best qualities of life may be called forth. Sermon Bible Commentary. -------------------- These verses furnish Christians with critical marching orders and guidance while providing crucial insight into our Creator's nature—all centered around the word “love.”Twice in these three verses, John declares that “God is love.” He also implores us to “love one another” and to know God, and then he identifies God as the source of love. This is the heart of the message of the Bible. I. Body and mind may complain that their scope is limited, but love's hour is always present. In proposing it then as a saving condition, that we let God love us; we do not dispense with faith. 5. Or if any doubt on this point may remain, I proceed —, 4. (Delivered Sunday, May 26, 2002 at Bethany Bible Church. Furthermore, as he cannot see a whir more clearly than the light enables him, by straining his will into his eyes, so he can do no more in the way of clearing his bad mind than to open it, as perfectly as possible, to the love of God. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son. 1. Therefore "let us rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh patience," etc. 1. 2. This is why the New Testament writers seek to draw your attention to God's great love for you. The machine is a revelation of the mechanist; the building, of the architect; the painting, of the painter; the poem, of the poet. The word translated known in our text comes from the Greek word gnosko which is to know by experience. Take away the love of God, His disposition to make His creatures happy, and what does He become? 3. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. How rich are the results of the communication of the Holy Spirit, with His gifts and graces! The experience of His perfect love for me has cast out all fear. I'm overshadowed by His mighty love Love that brightens all my way.". The seasons of the year supply evidence of this truth. a. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. And this is the love of compassion. Historical Books In the scale of reason the question of God's love must often seem a balanced one. Summer, with its rich light and heat, its abounding life and glory, is a revelation of the inexhaustible beauty and glory and munificence of God. The Old Testament 4. -------------------- -------------------- 2. -------------------- THE SPECIMEN INTRODUCED OF THE CHARACTER OF THOSE WHO HAVE FOUND GOD TO BE LOVE. So by experience of scientific knowledge we prove some degree of community of nature between ourselves and the Author of the world around us. What could have been the primary object which the Creator had in view in the works of creation? GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point The blessedness which awaits us in the future is but the unfolding of the present life of the soul. Bible > 1 John > Chapter 4 > Verse 16 Library • Free Downloads • eBibles To this, nature has no satisfactory response. Can you remember the feelings? God's works were known to Him from eternity. Love seeks the freest good. d. The complaint of Jesus to the church of Ephesus was they had left their first love. THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF LIFE THROUGH LOVE. A third feature of the love of Christ for His own is FAITHFULNESS. Scripture: 1 John 4:16-18, John 14:27, John 13:34-35, James 4:7-8, 1 John 3:1, Philippians 3:7-8 (view more) (view less) Denomination: Free Methodist. It is joy, strength, and new life to let the feelings of the heart flock to it. Jesus has promised to be with me to the end of the age. A SUMMARY OF THE BELIEVER'S TESTIMONY. And nevertheless, that universal love is at the same time an INDIVIDUAL love. I observe next that the elements in Christ's life which reveal this dwelling of the soul in God are present, however dimly, in all Christian life. Prophets But now we have come to that step in the ascent of our inquiry at which we are face to face with the wonder we have been preparing from the outset to understand. Material, mental, and spiritual good we derive from him. -------------------- The sufferings of our race are only like one dark and stormy day in a whole year of smiling and joyous sunshine. Did God give His Son to die the just for the unjust, to restore to us the favour which we had lost? This great truth is THE GROUNDWORK OF CHRISTIAN ENCOURAGEMENT. This supposes certain dispositions of favour towards sinful men. 1. The Old Testament He never had any need to plan or contrive. Every pleasure is thus doubled to man. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible 1 John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. We may not understand all, but we know that the thread of which we have hold will lead us to the heart of the mystery. "The seven-fold Spirit before the throne.". 3, 5. 1. There is no conception anywhere that we are to make a new love ourselves; we have only to let the love of God be upon us, and have its immortal working in us. 5. He was given to labour and suffer and die for men, in order that they might have life and joy (cf. Who can explain why disease should descend from generation to generation? Who can understand why pain falls on the innocent, and, as it sometimes seems, the heaviest penalty on those who have not sinned the most? Who, indeed, is sufficient to tell how God enters into us and dwells in us? 1. It need not be denied that there are many enigmas in life. c. I have no fear for my immediate future. Poetical Books A DEMONSTRATION OF ITS TRUTH. "He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good," etc. And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. General Epistles Partiality or favouritism, without reference to personal merit, is a mark of weakness, which is common in the human, but impossible in the Divine. Historical Books The highest outcome of theological speculation is "God is a Spirit," by which we mean emphatically to deny that He is matter and has dimensions and can be located in space; and emphatically to affirm that, like thought itself, He is distinct from matter and does not share its properties or limitations. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. Love which is weak and foolish tries to spare its children pain. Poetical Books Another time in which he knows his Father's love is, when he sees it after coming out of affliction. The spiritual insights to which dwelling in love admits us are foregleams of the vision we shall behold in heaven. d. This also was the desire of the song writer when he wrote: David Guzik :: Génesis 14 – Abram Rescata a Lot y Conoce a Melquisedec, G1 - alpha - Strong's Greek Lexicon (KJV), David Guzik :: Hechos 9 – La Conversión de Saulo de Tarso, David Guzik :: 1 Corintios 7 – Principios Sobre el Matrimonio y la Soltería, A Summary of Each Bible Book - Study Resources, Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Matthew 7:6, David Guzik :: Génesis 3 – La tentación y caída del hombre, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and the Holy Trinity (Walter Martin), Genesis 6-7 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), A Quiet Heart Means Confidence in God (Elisabeth Elliot), Genesis 1:1-8 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Genesis 4-5 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith). He is not darkness, but light; not malignity, but love. verses 9, 10; Romans 5:8; John 3:16). Major Prophets Poetical Books This concerns itself with the misery and ruin which sin entails, and furnishes, in the room of these evil consequences, peace and joy and hope, everlasting consolation and eternal life. 3. When we play the game, we are free to play our own game, but according to the rules. He knew what the disciples were; nevertheless, such as they were, He loved them. He does not mean that God is love, to the exclusion of justice, holiness, or truth. In this work our action at every step must be miraculous, for it is the going forth from us of an influence absolutely invisible and spiritual, whose force to be effective must be the force of God. 1. New health was restored to him, "The Lord hath heard my cry, like Hezekiah, and has lengthened my days. (Romans 5:3-5; also Romans 8:18, 28; 2 Corinthians 4:16-18; James 1:2, 3, 12). Autumn, with its maturity and mellowness and plenty, proclaims the fidelity and bountifulness of God. Bible> 1 John> Chapter 4> Verse 16 ◄1 John 4:16 ► And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. Some somehow feel that if God really loved them He would never allow them to experience pain. c. There seems to no experience in the world that can quite equal that experience of first love. 1. There is inauguration into office. 1JO 4:16 God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 2. It is, as opposed to mere natural love, an all-embracing love, not swayed by feelings or emotions or preferences, but loving all who can be loved, all who may become such as can be loved, or in order that they may be loved. And in relation to the origin of evil, whatever dark suggestions may be presented to our mind, we always feel that it cannot be of God, but is against him. We do not seek to be good out of fear, which means that we have no real love for good. unmute. And as for pain, think of the bitter Cross, and of God not sparing His own Son there. To feel God's love is very precious, but to believe it when you do not feel it, is the noblest. "Love is of God, for everyone that loveth is born of God." Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. Now these finer qualities do not appear only in moments of sudden heroism. 2. IN DWELLING UPON DIVINE LOVE IN THIS ORDER OF ITS PARTICULAR AFFECTIONS AND OPERATIONS, SOME IMPORTANT DOCTRINES OF SCRIPTURE MUST BE MAINTAINED. 1. c. They point you to the cross that you might see the supreme manifestation of God's love, hoping that it find some responsive chord in your heart. 3. The Gospels When we remember, then, that dark things not only reveal but call forth the better and higher dispositions of man, may we not see that the burden of some perplexing problems is somewhat lightened? Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." 2. THERE IS TRIUMPH Vss. It is not enough to know that a soul, by meditation and trust, can dwell in love: how should its dwelling in love be at the same time a dwelling in God? 1. There are other ways in which God's children know their Father's love. "Love, Divine love, Divine love giving, Divine love giving its only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth - not 'payeth,' not 'worketh,' not 'putteth out some external strength,' but 'believeth' - should not perish, but have everlasting life" (Dr. Joseph Parker). God is love, engaged in special redeeming acts. Without this they would not have reached us. The Old Testament Read John 4:1-42. Break the chess rules and we only provoke disappointment. No anatomist ever discovered a system of organization calculated to produce pain and disease; or, in explaining the parts of the human body, ever said, 'This is to irritate, this to inflame, this duet is to convey the gravel to the kidneys, this gland to secrete the humour which forms the gout.'" The character could not ripen save under clear and well-defined conditions which gave scope to freedom and yet checked caprice. No Fear In Love Series Contributed by Allan Quak on Jul 24, 2020 | 1,094 views. God has intimated to us that our planet dwelling does not include all His intelligent family, and that His system towards us is very imperfectly developed. Johannine Writings If he is omniscient, he must have foreseen it; and, foreseeing it, if he is omnipotent, he might have prevented it. Let us take the element of insight first. The Bible is the revelation of God in his relation to man as a sinner. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” King James Version (KJV) - W.J. 4, 6 ***** 1 John 4:1-6. God may not be blamed for the consequences which He has forewarned, which are wilfully incurred, and which He has given His creatures the fullest liberty, and urged them by the strongest remonstrance, to avoid. And in what practical sense are we to receive the statement that a soul dwells in God? Do you remember how no sacrifice was to great to be with the one you loved? Choose from below or see additional sermons using our bible scripture sorting tool. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him. There was a certain granitic sternness in the character of Christ, as well as soft and gentle words and smiles. Break the laws of life and we only meet grief. IV. This is an arrangement of love. Sermon Message. Our love for Him is a response of His great love for us. And now it remains to say —. It is a real home for the spirit, a real dwelling place for thought. ", 3. Scripture: 1 John 4:17–19. It has been proved that where there is no love there can be no justice. The glory of God is inseparably connected with His love. App Store Google Play Windows Amazon. Wisdom Literature Poetical Books I am sure, in looking back, you will say, "Oh, how foolish I was ever to doubt a faithful and unchanging God!". "How great is His goodness, and how great is His beauty!". Luke-Acts What is the result of our love being perfected? The New Testament II. If God be love, He cannot introduce, nor act upon, any opposite principle. But farther, what do we behold in this declaration, "He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him"? We can abide in the love God has for us by using our consciousness of this love to motivate us to avoid temptations to sin. Now, truly, he can say, "I know the love of God to me, for I can see it. 3. His material creation, his universal providence, his moral laws, and the redemptive mission of his Son, are all resolutely set against evil. (1) Forbearance. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Use semicolons to separate groups: 'Gen;Jdg;Psa-Mal' or 'Rom 3-12;Mat 1:15;Mat 5:12-22', There are options set in 'Advanced Options', The Whole Bible "God is love," says John. Matter cannot think or study. The highest good is greatness, purity, goodness of character. The question then is, What is moral good — genuine virtue? Whatever love in God is, it is not a love which cannot both do and look upon things which are very terrible; it is not a love which is regardless of law; it is not a love which cannot punish. He therefore will not enforce our love or compel our faith. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Surely not all have known the love that God has for them. Pentateuch See it in the first promise, which raised the prostrated hopes of our sinful pro genitors; in the numerous and expressive types which were to usher in the bright day of discovery; in the accurate and splendid predictions of that long line of holy men "who testified beforehand of the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow." "GOD IS LOVE" — A TRUTH UNKNOWN TO THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD. 4. 3. ", b. Paul said, "God manifested His love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly.". In the Bible. Thought ever precedes action, or a mental act is prior to a physical one. William Harrell. And now, do not these two states make up a summary of Christian experience? Robb Mc Coy and Eric Fistler, 2015. II. He enjoys it first as to his body, his animal nature, and then as to his soul. 3. Letting God love us with such love, is adequate remedy therefore and complete, and is no mere nerveless quietism, as some might hastily judge. b. Any act of mercy, being extra-judicial, being of a different order from the case supposed, cannot enter into our present vindication of essential love. The Obligation of Love 4:11-16. by Chester McCalley. 2. Spring, with its gradual unfolding of young life and verdant beauty, its quickening and joy-giving influence, is a revelation of God's tenderness and grace. In relation to the existence of sin, or moral evil, amongst us, observe this - the moral consciousness of men ever charges sin upon themselves, not upon God. Love is not only the element in which God works, but what works in that element is love. It is not possible to escape the boundaries of the flesh or to break the bars of thought; but it is possible to cherish good and loving thoughts. But now, having ascended this third step, and being face to face with the fact that our life is a life in God, that, in the most vital sense, we are encompassed by God, we are like timid people who find themselves for the first time on the ridge of a mighty mountain; we tremble, we are afraid to remain in the position, we shrink from the transcendent vision. 1 John 4:16 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] 1 John 4:16, NIV: "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.God is love. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a Series: I John. "AND WE HAVE KNOWN AND BELIEVED THE LOVE THAT GOD HAS FOR US.". We are set to subdue the evil which is in the world. I. This is the heart of the message of the Bible. 1. INTRODUCTION. We may move our pieces where we please, but each piece has its assigned move. Much of our suffering is self-inflicted. The mind of man has been so wonderfully constructed, too, that he can find true enjoyment in the moral and the religious, in holy living and in praising God, and that, too, when his day of earthly toil is ended, and the frail body which was so useful to him is mouldering in the dust. Sermons on 1 John 4:16. 5. ", A. Thus do afflictions bring to light what was latent in the heart. GOD LOVES YOU. A. The joy that is in the world is far greater than the sorrow. And this abiding good, called character, is the good which God desires for His children. Can he tear himself away from sin by pulling at his own shoulder? The Six Radical Resolutions of Biblically-Wise Dating. First John, Expository Sermons - From The Executable Outlines Series by Mark A. Copeland - Hundreds of free sermon outlines and Bible study materials available for … IV. This Love not only includes goodness and complacency, but, as it now exists, and is now revealed, it takes the form of "the kindness and philanthropy of God our Saviour." Thank you for registering. LET US NOW ATTEMPT TO REFUTE CERTAIN OBJECTIONS WHICH ARE COMMONLY RAISED AGAINST THE THEME OF THE TEXT. V. The love of Christ is UNIVERSAL. Listen to or download for free sermons from 1 John by Alistair Begg. IV. In the psalm that we read this morning, David said, "I love the Lord because He has heard the voice of my supplication.". Major Prophets True love, like the love of God, must be ceaseless. To understand, then, the Divine character, we are led first to the Divine thoughts or plans, and then to the Divine actions or the development of those plans. The Gospels "Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another" (1 Jn 4:11). f. God also complained to Israel about the loss of their first love, He told Jeremiah to: V. JOHN SPEAKS OF OUR LOVE BEING PERFECTED. God must, in rendering the creature accountable, promulgate a law. This is the disposition to communicate happiness. It will be happiness then to dwell in the memory of Christ's love, to think of its sacrifices, its beautiful unfoldings, and its mighty victories. In the first place we have known that God's love to us is undeserved. In all the life of our Lord I read our text, and in his death it is proclaimed with an almost irresistible fullness and force that "God is Love.". "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ." But this much ought to be said, that the two parts of the mystery are but one in experience. Does this close the exhibition of this scene of love? The Christian activities, tendernesses, and mercies to which love impels us, are earnests of the as yet unimaginable activities and tendernesses of the world to come. It needs, however, an eye akin with God's to perceive His will and His way. Christ's insight is a great manifestation of a human life dwelling in God. Love which is wise and strong knows that experience must play a large, perhaps the largest, share in education. Government in every case implies two things — punishment and reward. They have quickened in your bosom the spirit of prayer. THERE IS TREACHERY Vss. But times there are of thick darkness, when neither sun nor moon appear for many days; when the tempest rages exceedingly, and two seas meet in dread collision. Just Sex? Is it equally true that where there is no justice there cannot be love in its highest form? It is only the medium of conveying impressions to the mind within, and thus secure the development of the soul and the gradual expansion of its dormant powers. It is not to his loyal subjects alone that these gifts are bestowed, but also to rebels against his authority. It is, therefore, no small influence for good upon the human character when the relationship between God and man is that of love. Study 1 John 4 with ... J. Vernon McGee . It displays its earliest effect in creating objects for itself. Every change in the external world is faithfully conveyed to the mind within, and body and soul can participate in the joys and sorrows of each other. But our ground of experience is wider and deeper still when we view the obvious purpose for which the spiritual part of our nature is given. 6. 3. Besides, this supposition exhibits God in a way in which He was not exhibited by Jesus. We violate the laws of God's universe, and we suffer in consequence. I know that in His presence there is fullness of joy, and at his right hand pleasures forevermore. "We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. The highest good is therefore spiritual, not physical, not intellectual. A. The One who loves me perfectly has taken my sins for me, He paid the price for my redemption because He loved me. I will mention two or three particular ways in which he knows it. "We know and believe the love that God hath to us." The beauty we behold in the love is the very beauty of God: the strong fortress we flee to is God Himself. We have known the love which God hath to us — it is not a matter of conjecture, but of demonstration: "We have known, we have believed the love that God hath to us.". A NECESSARY CONCEPTION OF DIVINE LOVE IS, THAT IT IS THE LOVE OF GOD PRIMARILY TO HIMSELF. Take away love, and a body without a soul is left behind. I want to share with you five truths about encounters I learned from this passage. "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" His ways please the Lord, and therefore He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. If we love them, all timidity and artifice will pass away. Sometimes he knows it by seeing it. God is love, regarded in Covenant. Suffering, or natural evil, as it is sometimes called, is the result of sin, or moral evil. II. -------------------- 5. 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