Bible Readings:
John 3:1 – 21
1 John 4:7 – 21
Sermon Outline:
1 John 4:7–11 (NKJV)
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 Let us love
II For God is love
In any love there is:
- The lover – subject
- The beloved – object
- The affection and action of love
What is propitiation?
Romans 3:25 (NKJV)
25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
III Because God has so loved is, therefore we also ought to love one another
Even the heart of God thirsts afer love.
Abraham Kuyper
No man can love a saint, as a saint, but a saint.
Richard Sibbes
He who is not filled with love is necesarily small, withered, shrivelled in his outlook on life and things.
Benjamin B. Warfield
Christian love is not the victim of our emotions but the servant of our will.
John R. W. Stott