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Because He First Loved Us (1 John 4.7-21)
What makes the Gospel glorious? God does. Not just who He is, but how He has manifested "who He is" among us: the death, burial and resurrection of His Son for our sin. All praise and glory is due Him!
So then, what's the connection between His manifestation of Love displayed before us, and His manifestation of Love displayed through us? Answer: His Spirit made alive in us! Not as though it is an insignificant matter, but there is more to the Gospel than forgiveness. Were God to just wipe our slate clean of past sins, it wouldn't be but a few seconds until we needed cleaning again. Enter His Spirit!
Christ came--not to further enslave us with even more debt, the debt of "owing God" for all He has done for us, but--to set us free from our debts and divinely enable us to love as we ought to, in fact, to love as He loves. Is that how you love?
Join us today for the final sermon in the Gospel Doctrine series and see why, the Gospel really does begin and end with God. To Him be the glory in the church now and forever more!
Today's passage:
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.13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 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 judgment, 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. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. -1 John 4.7-21 (esv)
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What makes the Gospel glorious? God does. Not just who He is, but how He has manifested "who He is" among us: the death, burial and resurrection of His Son for our sin. All praise and glory is due Him!
So then, what's the connection between His manifestation of Love displayed before us, and His manifestation of Love displayed through us? Answer: His Spirit made alive in us! Not as though it is an insignificant matter, but there is more to the Gospel than forgiveness. Were God to just wipe our slate clean of past sins, it wouldn't be but a few seconds until we needed cleaning again. Enter His Spirit!
Christ came--not to further enslave us with even more debt, the debt of "owing God" for all He has done for us, but--to set us free from our debts and divinely enable us to love as we ought to, in fact, to love as He loves. Is that how you love?
Join us today for the final sermon in the Gospel Doctrine series and see why, the Gospel really does begin and end with God. To Him be the glory in the church now and forever more!
Today's passage:
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.13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 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 judgment, 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. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. -1 John 4.7-21 (esv)