Would not every man took upon such a ruler with contempt, and turn from him with disgust? The Old Testament We have known and we have believed the love of God to us to be perfectly immutable. 2. LET US NOW ATTEMPT TO REFUTE CERTAIN OBJECTIONS WHICH ARE COMMONLY RAISED AGAINST THE THEME OF THE TEXT. A pagan said, "When God was about to make the world He transformed Himself into love." Sermon Message. Under the spiritual are of course included thought, conscience, and emotion. Mind! Or is it a dream far above us — a cloudland, mocking us with its gorgeous colours? A happy soul is necessarily communicative. How rich are the results of the communication of the Holy Spirit, with His gifts and graces! 5. 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. Johannine Writings e. I wonder if He might be complaining the same about us? It is the spirit's promised land, the land flowing with milk and honey, where the King of the spirit is to be seen in His beauty. C. How can it be that I have no fear of the judgment day? John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible The Old Testament Partiality or favouritism, without reference to personal merit, is a mark of weakness, which is common in the human, but impossible in the Divine. The Purpose of Advent. 1JO 4:16 God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Minor Prophets God's works were known to Him from eternity. IS THE MERCIFUL PROVISIONS OF HIS GRACE. 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. Just in that way rises overhead and around the Christian soul the vision, the thought and memory of the love of God in Christ. "We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. They may sing as they shine, but they cannot sing vocally. -------------------- God loves you too much to answer all of your prayers. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 4. I know that in His presence there is fullness of joy, and at his right hand pleasures forevermore. The Gospels The Holy Ghost is given. All the Divine perfections resolve themselves into love. Privileges of Sonship. I will make but one other remark here, and that is, we can bear our willing witness that the love of God to us has been an unfailing support in all our trials. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him. The Gospels Complacency. 2. As stars on the background of the midnight sky, the higher qualities of human nature have been seen among the dark mysteries of life. It shines on every gleaming page. 1 John 4:16-21 And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. But the body, with all its senses, is only a means to an end. Pauline Epistles "Ah," says one, "we have sometimes doubted it." b. Minor Prophets GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point I want to share with you five truths about encounters I learned from this passage. Listen to or download for free sermons from 1 John by Alistair Begg. And what do we behold in this declaration? The most painful trials of life have often proved the means of conversion. 1. In all these various manifestations of the Divine character, we find evidence of the text, "God is love." "Love is of God, for everyone that loveth is born of God." So that if the Governor of the universe be devoid of the attribute of love, He cannot be depended upon for the execution of justice; and a character in which justice and love form no essential elements cannot be esteemed glorious by any intelligent being. There are dark vicissitudes whose meaning we seek to penetrate. A third feature of the love of Christ for His own is FAITHFULNESS. We strove against God's love, but it conquered us. The hand which touched the blind to sight was human, but it would have been powerless if it had not moved in the stream of the power of God. Pentateuch All scripture quotes, unless otherwise noted, are from the New King James Version.) (Delivered Sunday, May 26, 2002 at Bethany Bible Church. Lifelong tests are more severe, though perhaps not so brilliant, as momentary tests. 1. Sermon Message. Besides, this supposition exhibits God in a way in which He was not exhibited by Jesus. It adapts them to the means of enjoyment provided for them. INTRODUCTION. The better it is known the more it is frequented by the meditating spirit. Prophets "Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another" (1 Jn 4:11). I will not expatiate on the functions of conscience and of love which are spiritual faculties bestowed for the moral government of ourselves and of the race and for the supreme and noblest kind of happiness attainable on earth. Paley states the argument with clearness and force: "Contrivance proves design; and the predominant tendency of the contrivance indicates the disposition of the desirer. Much more do we discern this, when we go higher still in the range of our spiritual nature. Another time in which he knows his Father's love is, when he sees it after coming out of affliction. 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. 1. 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. Whence come war and slavery, distress and poverty, pain and sorrow, disease and "the bitterness of death"? Thus the newborn life is to be "the love of God, shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost." Confess your doubts, but write them not in this our psalm of praise. Major Prophets Why, the security of those souls who are thus distinguished by the love of God, and by being the temples of the Holy Ghost. 2. II. Wherever love is, God is; wherever God is, He manifests Himself by love. 1. Therefore "let us rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh patience," etc. -------------------- (2) Take the next view of the chief purpose of creation, viz., that it was to secure the exhibition of moral good, or the development of genuine virtue. It identifies love with God's essence, with the very root of His character and life. The strongest faith, the intensest love, the profoundest gratitude, and the sublimest moral and spiritual power have been manifested, not by men in the clear day of their prosperity, but by the children of affliction in the dark night of sorrow." The same thought may reach us in another way. The words of the hymn: "O to lie forever here. "God is love," says John. God loves me and is watching over me, and will not allow anything to come except it be for my eternal good. Or if any doubt on this point may remain, I proceed —, 4. 1 John 3:1 . He is to be a witness with heart and lips. "He that sitteth on the throne." But creation generally shows the love of God. It can be saved, but merely because with God all things are possible. To ask what more A sinner of mankind, doing the utmost possible, can be expected or required to do. That when we come to accurately understand what is meant by faith, which is the universally accepted condition of salvation, we only give, in fact, another version of it, when we say that the just letting God love us, amounts to precisely the same thing. The joy that is in the world is far greater than the sorrow. They dwell in God, and God dwells in them. So we read in an earlier verse. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. To carry out a benevolent plan must be as benevolent as the plan itself. Christ dwelt in God. d. The complaint of Jesus to the church of Ephesus was they had left their first love. If we expect to win something from them, we shall be ostentatious in little acts of exaggerated service, and we shall catch ourselves acting as though we were challenging attention to the quality or quantity of our service. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him. God is love, engaged in special redeeming acts. 8. But the love in which in this way the soul finds a home is much more than an object of thought; it is life, power, law as well; it is the life that stirs at the heart of Providence, the power that causes all things to work together for good, the unseen law behind events, which Christian faith searches for, and in which at last, in sunshine or cloud, it rests. I can best reply to these questions by recalling two or three facts familiar to our Christian life. This opposes every idea of claim or worth in them to whom it is extended, regarding only their total demerit. First John, Expository Sermons - From The Executable Outlines Series by Mark A. Copeland - Hundreds of free sermon outlines and Bible study materials available for … Historical Books 2. 4. It is a fascination. Life is like a game of chess. "All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous, but grievous: yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness." If the Divine Being had no love He could not care whether they were happy or miserable. The Bible is the revelation of God in his relation to man as a sinner. Can you remember the feelings? Letting God love us with such love, is adequate remedy therefore and complete, and is no mere nerveless quietism, as some might hastily judge. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son. Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. By this, love is perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. And nevertheless, that universal love is at the same time an INDIVIDUAL love. No soul can dwell in love into whom first the Holy Spirit has not descended bringing the love. John Piper Jun 2, 1985 189 Shares God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him Learn more about Desiring God 2. "He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good," etc. In creation. To check the education by experience is often to tamper with the freedom. This great truth is THE GROUNDWORK OF CHRISTIAN ENCOURAGEMENT. Winning at Conflict. It indicates an infinity of love, a shoreless, bottomless ocean of love. THE PECULIAR CAUSE WHY THE REDEEMED OF THE EARTH, IN PARTICULAR, CAN BEAR WITNESS TO THIS TRUTH, THAT GOD IS LOVE. The first position, that of knowing God's love, is the sweetest, but that of believing God's love, is the grandest. What is the result of our love being perfected? The Word of Life. Now, love's scope is best seen in hours of trial and pain. B. D. Have you ever been in love, truly in love? 2. It was to foreshadow the great future awaiting our race, as much as to reveal God, that His miracles were wrought. THERE IS A TESTIMONY Vs. 2. There is inauguration into office. Love is the life of God in the same sense that a mother's love is the outflow of a mother's life. The love of God in which the Christian spirit dwells is not an impersonal thing. In case we ever forget this basic, essential fact of our faith, 1 John makes it crystal clear." f. The purpose of prayer is to see God's will accomplished. The Whole Bible 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. This is the heart of the message of the Bible. 3. It is a shelter within which the soul finds safety. 3. Let us take the element of insight first. I. (1 John 4:10) Consider, then — First: The plans or thoughts of God. 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. The sufferings of the world are small when compared with its enjoyments. 1. "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us!" (3) In order to bestow these gifts upon us, he gave us a Gift of greater value than all the others. His ways please the Lord, and therefore He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. 3. By the way, if you are reading this sermon online please feel free to leave your comments at the end. The love, dwelling in which is one with dwelling in God, is not any love; it is not all that passes by the name of love: it is that love only which has been poured forth in Christ for the salvation of the world. (1) In the Bible, God appears as the Giver of every good, the Fountain of all blessings. Matter cannot think or study. To this, nature has no satisfactory response. 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. b. I have no fear of the present. 1 John 4:16. 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. AN EXPLANATION OF THE TEXT. VI. "How great is His goodness, and how great is His beauty!". 4. We cannot avoid the conclusion that the faculty by which it is possible to perceive and understand a given law must be similar to the faculty by which the law was ordained. 2. The love of Jesus for His own is a SANCTIFYING LOVE. ", A. No Fear In Love Series Contributed by Allan Quak on Jul 24, 2020 | 1,094 views. The heart that beats in His breast is that of the High priest of mankind. Similarly the nobler qualities of character reveal themselves in hours of emergency and danger. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them." THE MANIFESTATION OF THIS GLORIOUS TRUTH. They have proved the means of repressing or of extirpating corruption from the heart. In this very way the Divine love reveals itself to us. 1. App Store Google Play Windows Amazon. (4) Compassion. 2. A. The sufferings of our race are only like one dark and stormy day in a whole year of smiling and joyous sunshine. II. We can say concerning His love that it has never been diminished by all the sins we have ever committed since we believed. 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. IT IS INEVITABLE THAT OUR MAIN THOUGHT OF GOD SHOULD COLOUR OUR RELIGIOUS LIFE, AND THROUGH IT OUR ORDINARY LIFE AMONG MEN. 2. I take the text to mean that the love of God is manifested in a most striking manner in the history of our world; but most of all in the subject which the apostle has been discussing — the salvation of the lost and sinful through the mediation of Christ. I will take two qualities of His human life — the qualities of insight and power — and I will show you in their exercise the contact and influence of the life of God. For if this be "the first and great commandment, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart," then those qualities are to be found in Him which should be thus esteemed. True love, like the love of God, "seeks not its own.". No! If God be love, He cannot introduce, nor act upon, any opposite principle. One cause of the failure must be sought for in the spirituality and elevation of the idea itself. Government in every case implies two things — punishment and reward. 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. Others testified that Jesus was the light (Matthew 4:16; Luke 2:32; John 1:1-4)––and Jesus said of himself, “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12). Discover More About Relationships Submission: Training for Exiles, Part 2. 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. Luke-Acts 2. So the universe is an embodiment of the ideas of the Divine mind, a revelation of the thought and feeling of the Creator. God has so constituted us that we must always feel that we are free. 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." Pulpit Fiction, plus podcast. To save the sinner He has not only to will. And first of all this, that the life we are called to imitate was the fulfilment of this very ideal. For if a man but offers himself up trustfully and clear of all hindrance to the love of God in Jesus Christ, saying, though it be in silence, "Be it upon me; let it come and do its sweet will in me"; plainly that is but letting God love him, and yet what is it but faith? IV. There is no scheme of good but it avails to uphold and operates to secure. In itself evil is and ever must be evil; in itself suffering is ever painful and bitter. 1 John 4:11-16. 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. The world abounds with contrivances; and all the contrivances which we are acquainted with are directed to beneficial purposes.... We never discover a train of contrivance to bring about an evil purpose. 7. But as an instrument it is without its equal. The experience of His perfect love for me has cast out all fear. It is this which makes the Divine love so fitting a home for spiritual thought and a refuge for spiritual anxiety. Out of the combination of our freedom and the fixed powers of the men come our discipline and skill in playing the game. 3. If, therefore, the Supreme Ruler of the universe is to be respected by intelligent beings, and loved for His wisdom and moral excellence, He must vindicate the right and banish the evil-doer. Sometimes the Christian knows the love of God to him. We can abide in the love we have for God by praying at all times and praising His name throughout the day. Every pleasure is thus doubled to man. 1. No, I will leave that. 1 John 4:12-16 Theme: When we love one another in the power of the Holy Spirit, God's love is made "complete" in us. General Epistles a. (1 John 4:4) "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. "Love worketh no ill to its neighbour," said St. Paul. 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. If the thief and the honest man, the murderer and the philanthropist, were all treated alike, I ask what would be the impression made upon the mind of any rational being? The motives, acts, and purposes of the Divine life are love. (3) The next supposition is that the chief end of creation was the production and supply of creature happiness. 1. Wonderful things in the Bible I see, this is the dearest that Jesus loves me. The Old Testament So we need to remember the biblical definition of love. The glory of God is inseparably connected with His love. 5. Through Christ he bestows all good here, and eternal and glorious life hereafter to all who believe in him. GOD IS LOVE — A TRUTH REVEALED AND CERTIFIED IN CHRIST. 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. The machine is a revelation of the mechanist; the building, of the architect; the painting, of the painter; the poem, of the poet. The presence of evil he permitted and still permits; but it did not originate with him. How is our love perfected? Then, when we perceive how love is at the back of all life's discipline and pain, we are like those who have hold of the silver thread which leads through the labyrinth. "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. It is true that love exercises a purifying influence over service. But freedom is not the same as immunity from conditions. He only can save it by means absolutely infinite. Even this - that it is not without its beauties, and in its bleak and trying months nature is silently and secretly preparing the beauties of the coming spring, the glories of summer, and the bounties of autumn. 1. Passwords should have at least 6 characters. 1. "He giveth us richly all things to enjoy." 1 John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. Does it not seem as though the finer aspects of character would have had little scope except in a world where pain and peril existed? If I am not on the other side Jordan, at least my master is on this side of it." GOD LOVES YOU. 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 love of God in the gift, the humanity, and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, stands not apart from efficient results. And this is the love of compassion. Restoration to the lost, pardon to the guilty, sanctification to the sinful, glory to the degraded, he gives. Nothing can hurt or destroy in the fastnesses where love dwells, not even sin itself. 1. William Harrell. If he is omniscient, he must have foreseen it; and, foreseeing it, if he is omnipotent, he might have prevented it. Possessing this spiritual nature as human beings we naturally believe in its likeness to, if not identity with, the nature of Him who is the Author and cause of all. 2. He enjoys it first as to his body, his animal nature, and then as to his soul. Wisdom Literature Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is … Thus even suffering and trial, when received and borne in a right spirit, witness to this glorious truth, that "God is Love." What reason have we to believe, that instead of perishing with the majority, we shall be in the minority of those who are saved? 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. (1) Forbearance. 1. 1. Read John 4:1-42. The procedures of His disciplinary providence have contributed to sanctification. God therefore desires for us the very best that can be. 3, 5. III. The glory has departed, and the very life is gone. The replies to these questions are three —(1) That God's chief end in creation was the securing of His own glory. II. All the other creatures speak not with words. Now, truly, he can say, "I know the love of God to me, for I can see it. Pain is the exception, not the rule, in human life. 1. Two things need to be remembered, which, if they do not give answers to these hard questions, yet lift somewhat their burden. Prophets It need not be denied that there are many enigmas in life. The Holy Spirit indwells me, thus greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. The Six Radical Resolutions of Biblically-Wise Dating. -------------------- The quality of our service will differ with the relationship we bear to those we serve. 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? Bitter though we sometimes think that our lives have been, yet have there been periods in them akin to heaven, when we could say, "If this is not glory it is next door to it. ", 3. Do you remember how fulfilling and satisfying love was? Great as was the love between the Father and the Son, the Father "spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all." This is the disposition which dwells in the mind of the Framer of all things to delight in whatever He has done. The mind can study the material and the spiritual, the creature and the uncreated. Poetical Books GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Luke-Acts The original law illustrates this truth by presuming that He is love. II. The plan is to beget love by love, and nothing is left us to do in the matter, but simply to allow the love, and offer ourselves to it. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point God is love. 3. 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. They are sometimes and more often seen in the quiet fidelity and prolonged patience of love, in the ministry of devoted and self-denying lives. The Obligation of Love 4:11-16. by Chester McCalley. The Old Testament We are set to subdue the evil which is in the world. God, who loves freely, wants our love as freely in return. Severe suffering is like a great thunderstorm which sweeps over a country, and, by its flashing flames and awful booms and pelting rain, fills the minds of men with terror; but it passes away, and leaves the air purer and the heavens brighter. It is a love not out of harmony with the sterner aspects of God's government, as seen in the world around us. Every Christian is to be a testifier. Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Take away love, and a body without a soul is left behind. "AND WE HAVE KNOWN AND BELIEVED THE LOVE THAT GOD HAS FOR US.". - W.J. Without this they would not have reached us. It is a dwelling in God here: it will be a dwelling in God there. Autumn, with its maturity and mellowness and plenty, proclaims the fidelity and bountifulness of God. This is the disposition to communicate happiness. Then the capricious and wayward woman becomes a ministering angel. 4. To feel God's love is very precious, but to believe it when you do not feel it, is the noblest. In the Bible. 3. To understand that God is Love, and to realise that His love seeks and must seek our highest good, and that this good is in our spiritual resemblance to God our Father, is to take hold of a principle which enlightens our eyes as we look out on life. There is no fear of this love waxing cold and being dried up in the redeemed, when we know that they live in God by a life of faith, and that God by His Spirit lives in them. (3) Mercy. Our Saviour never did, or said, anything to show His own greatness as a purpose. 2. d. 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