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*Passing the Test, Part 2*
*How do I love? 1 John 4:7-21*
Sunday November 9, 2008
Get out your Bible and your wallet!
(not a trick, no offering!)
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New bill?
Our government has spent millions of $$ to make sure that our money is not counterfeited.
Bigger pictures, colors, watermarks -- I’m not printing counterfeit money in my garage!
If I have some they will take it from me – I don’t want that!
They check them now at marketplace, etc.
If your money */passes the test/*, you can use it!
If your life passes the test, you can have confidence and assurance before God!
Is a test negative or positive?
* Passing a test shows us how far we have come!
* Passing a test qualifies us to take the next step!
* Passing a test gives us confidence and assurance!
That is a good thing!
<Dezi’s GED?>
Who wrote this letter?
John:
* An eyewitness of Jesus.
1:1-4
* An elder A pastor
Over time, he has seen his share of “fakes”.
As a pastor, his goal for us is to move on to maturity, confidence and assurance.
*/SPIRAL communication by John /2:9-11 & 3:11-24*
The test; “How do I live?”
Old me vs. my new nature.
The 2nd one: How do I love?
Listen for the word “love”!
You can’t miss it!
“7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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.
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.
11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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.
13 We know that we live 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 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.
16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love.
Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
17 In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.
18 There is no fear in love.
But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.
The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us.
20 If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar.
For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.”
*4:7-21*
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God is love!
2 times in this passage; :8 and :16.
“God is love”.
But, God is best defined by the word “love”!
All that he does is loving, motivated by love!
Amazing!
Love is the glove that covers the hand of God; all that he does is covered with love.
Not the same as “love is god”.
You can say “peanut butter is brown; but brown is not peanut butter.”
Not all who “love” are god.
There are times when love must be tough; when the most loving thing you can do for someone you love is to be tough with them; not let them “walk all over you”.
Even when God disciplines us, he does it with love.
Like a parent who has to discipline his child – it is done in love.
Love is the glove that covers the hand of God.
All that he does, he does in love.
God is love.
It is amazing how many doors that single statement unlocks and how many questions it answers.
*Ah!
That explains it!*
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God’s love explains creation!/*/
/Think of how messed up this world is.
Why did he even create it?
Why bother?
Sometimes we are bound to wonder why God created this world.
The disobedience, and the sin is a continual grief to him.
Think of how you feel when you are sinned against.
Multiply that by 6,857,269,842 (as of Tuesday afternoon!)
Why should he create a world which was to bring him nothing but trouble?
The answer is that creation was essential to his very nature.
If God is love, he cannot exist in lonely isolation.
Love must have someone to love and someone to love it.
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God’s love explains my free will/*/.
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Unless love is a free response it is not love.
Had God been only law he could have created a world in which men moved like robots, having no more choice than a machine.
Love is of necessity the free response of the heart; and, therefore, God, chose to give men a free will.
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God’s love explains salvation./*/
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If God had been only law and justice, he would simply have left men to the consequences of their sin.
The moral law would operate; the soul that sinned would die; and eternal justice would hand out its punishments.
But the very fact that God is love meant that he had to seek and save that which was lost.
He had to find a remedy for sin.
/ /
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God’s love explains Heaven!/*
If God were simply creator, men might live their brief span and die for ever.
The life which we live would soon be forgotten!
Those who die too early in life, who are murdered, who are aborted in the womb – it wouldn’t be fair!
But the Love of God makes a way for eternal life!
A life that makes all the wrongs of earth right again!
/What does God’s love look like?
Jesus Christ (verse 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.”
When we look at Jesus we see two things about the love of God.
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