PU R S U IN G P E R F EC TI ON
IN LOVE
1 JOHN 4:16-21
1 JOHN 4:16-21
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in
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god, and god in them.
This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of
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judgment: In this world, we are like Jesus.
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment.
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The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
We love because He first loved us.
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Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their
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brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
And he has given us this command: anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
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GOD’S LOVE AND OURS
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born
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of God and knows God. (1 John 4:7-New International Version)
Those who have experienced the Love of God
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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and
knoweth God. (1 John 4:4:7-King James Version)
GOD’S LOVE AND OURS
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born
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of God and knows God. (1 John 4:7-New International Version)
“Command” from God
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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and
knoweth God. (1 John 4:4:7-King James Version)
• How much “LOVE” can you give?
• Is there enough “LOVE” that I am
willing to give?
• Can I “LOVE” that person more
than myself”
GOD’S LOVE AND OURS
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born
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of God and knows God. (1 John 4:7-New International Version)
“LOVE” comes from God
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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and
knoweth God. (1 John 4:4:7-King James Version)
GOD’S LOVE AND OURS
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John 4:8-New International
Version)
“Understand”
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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (1 John 4:4:7-King James Version)
Doing “GOOD” is different from doing “GOOD” in “LOVE”…
GOD’S LOVE AND OURS
9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might
live through him. Relation NOT BEHAVIOR
10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our
sins. Substitute for us to receive God’s Love
Are we now ready to obey the
11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
COMMAND?
12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in
us. Love “LAVISHLY”
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us his Spirit.
“LOVE “ from God“
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.
Gratitude
(1 John 4:9-14-New International Version)
1 JOHN 4:16-21
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in
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God, and God in them.
This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of
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judgment: In this world, we are like Jesus.
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment.
18
The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
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We love because He first loved us.
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their
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brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
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And He has given us this command: anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
PU R S U IN G P E R F EC TI ON
IN LOVE
1 JOHN 4:16-21
