And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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… Christ. 1 John 4.10, in this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us. How? What does it look like? Does love mean unconditional affirmation? That He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. So many people misunderstand. God must love us, therefore He loves us so much there's nothing He could be angry about. There's no way He could ever disapprove of what I do. Isn't He a God of love? He is a God of love, which is why the Son's death was necessary so that the God of love could be propitious toward us and His anger assuaged. God in love sent His Son to satisfy the wrath of God by becoming the bloody, human, divine sacrifice for our sins. So, beloved, this is the best of news. It is worth believing believing, savoring, and in just a moment, singing about. Jesus did not merely turn away the wrath of God. He took it upon Himself so that we should not say technically divine wrath was withdrawn. …
… 1 John 4, 10, this is love. Not that we love God. Y'all, this one feels important. He's literally defining for you what love is according to God. And that's going to be the pattern for how you love your spouse. Not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Y'all, these are not obscure verses I pulled out. These are key promises in the Bible. I'm just saying, is it possible that you know Taylor's thoughts on love more than you know God's thoughts on love? Listen, Taylor just got married and I wish her well in her marriage. I'm sure it was a thing, but let's just all be honest, okay? None of us can say for sure that she's still going to be married to Travis in 10 years. History and situations like this would suggest maybe not. Nick Cage is on his fifth marriage, and if he can't make it, what hope is there for anyone in Hollywood? Am I right? So I don't know where she's going to be in 10 years. …
… The Bible says this, 1 John chapter four, verse 10, in this is love. And it's not if you do all of the right things and one day you can stand rightly before a righteous king that's not what he says. It says, in this is love. Not that we first love God. Not that we avoided all the pitfalls. Not that we got it right every time. Not that we stood firm like men perfectly. No, no, no, no, no, no. In this is love. Not that we first love him, but he first loved us and sent his son as the propitiation for our sins. Say propitiation. One more time. Propitiation. You know what propitiation means? It means a payment that satisfies. Pastor Craig, when I was starting our church, all the church growth experts told me I wasn't supposed to use theological terminology like propitiation. But I'm just of the belief, if you can order a venti caramel macchiato, you can learn propitiation, okay? And if you're drinking that, repent and drink it black like a grown man. …
1 John 4, verses 9 and 10. Pay careful attention as we read God's holy word. 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. 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. People of God, we are gathered here, of course, tonight on Monday, Thursday, a commemoration of the night before Jesus was crucified and died. This is a solemn night as our Lord is ready to lay down his life. This is a somber night. For in the darkness of night came the darkness of his betrayal, denial, Gethsemane, his trial. This is an ominous night. Because we know what's coming next. All we have to do tonight is think about the sounds. Think about the sounds that you've heard tonight. Think about the musical notes that have been played tonight. Think about in just a few minutes when the service is over, we will walk out in silence. …
… He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him. This is love. not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins he sent Jesus to go rescue us he sent Jesus for those that were spiritually blind know they got money they've got a great outfit they might have a great home a great car and a great lifestyle but spiritually they're blind spiritually they're lost oh I love what Jesus says, put this on the screen, Luke 19, 10, for the son of man came to seek and to save the what? The lost. Jesus said, I have come and I'm looking for anybody that is spiritually blind, looking for anybody that's on a path to destruction. And it's going to be my mission. I'm going to go on a rescue mission to help people find the love of God. This is love that God sent his one and his only son to find us when we were lost. You didn't find God. God found you. …
… other because love is from God and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God. The person who doesn't love does not know God because God is love. What a powerful scripture. Now, love is the driving ethic of the Christian life. In John's gospel, Jesus repeatedly claims, he says, this is my commandment, that you love one another. He says that on the night he's about to be crucified, the next day he would be arrested that night. This is my commandment, that you love one another. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, he quotes twice, or once in each of those gospels, the great commandments. Love God with all that's within you. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Love even your enemy, Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount. We read in Paul, the summation of the law. He says in 1 Corinthians chapter 13, if I speak in the tongues of mortals and angels, but do not have love, I'm a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. …
… that we might live through him. in this is love. Not that we loved God. That's not the big deal. What's the big deal? That he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation. There's a big church word. It means payment. It means sacrifice that was given and accepted. The propitiation for our sins. It atoned for us. It paid the bill. We were drowning in debt that was going to take us out and sink us. and he paid the bill in one fell swoop and said, put it on my bill. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought, don't you figure? Don't you reckon? We also ought to love one another. And we'll end here. No one has seen God at any time, but if we love one another, God abides in us and his love has been perfected in us. Could we thank God for his word, church? Thank you, Lord. The big idea today, and the title of this message is, the Holy Spirit, not the only spirit. …
… This is the part I want us to see. This is love. Not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. And why does it matter? Because no one has ever seen God. but if we love one another God lives in us and his love is made complete in us your neighbor has never seen God and neither have you but your neighbor can see God by the way that you love them and that's going to happen proportionately I believe to your ability to love yourself and find yourself in the love of God. So you don't have to start today with, oh my goodness, this new commandment, I got to love God with all my heart, all my mind, and all my strength. Jesus is reaching back to Deuteronomy for that phrase. It's the Shema, the summation of faith to the Jewish mind found in Deuteronomy 6. Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your mind and all your strength. And another place in the Gospels adds to it another dimension as well. All your heart, all your mind, all your strength, all your hands, everything about you in life. Love God. …
… Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the the propitiation, the satisfaction for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides enough in us, and His love is perfected in us. Again, you're never more like God than when you love sacrificially, unconditionally, and with forgiveness. And we have a model of that, a pattern. The plea is in verse 1, the pattern is in verse 2. And Christ, as we saw last week, is the One who loved us and gave Himself up for us as a satisfactory offering to God that arose from the cross as a sweet aroma. That's all so magnificent, so beautiful, so wondrous, so precious, that in a sense I hate to descend into verse 3, but necessarily must, because it starts to turn here, and it turns very darkly, and it's very ugly. …
… ALL THY SOUL AND WITH ALL THY MIND. BUT THE GOSPEL SAYS, HEREIN HIS LOVE, NOT THAT WE, AH, LOVE GOD, BUT THAT HE LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE PROPITIATION, THE SATISFACTION FOR OUR SINS. THE LAW SAYS, CURSED IS EVERYONE THAT CONTINUETH NOT IN ALL THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW TO DO THEM. THE GOSPEL SAYS, BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE INIQUITIES ARE FORGIVEN AND WHOSE SINS ARE COVERED. THE LAW SAYS, THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH. THE GOSPEL SAYS THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. THE LAW DEMANDS HOLINESS. THE GOSPEL GIVES HOLINESS. THE LAW SAYS DO. THE GOSPEL SAYS DONE. THE LAW MAKES BLESSING THE RESULT OF OBEDIENCE. THE GOSPEL MAKES OBEDIENCE THE RESULT OF BLESSING. THE LAW PUTS THE DAY OF REST AT THE END OF THE WEEK. THE GOSPEL PUTS IT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WEEK BECAUSE WE HAVE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST. THE LAW SAYS, IF, THE GOSPEL SAYS, THEREFORE. THE LAW SAYS, RUN, BUT IT GIVES US NO LEGS. THE GOSPEL SAYS, FLY, AND IT GIVES US WINGS. WHY? WHY? …