This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him.In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
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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. …
… the love of God was manifest toward us that God sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him Jesus loved an adulterous woman who was protected from those who would have stoned her he told her he didn't condemn her and that she should go and sin no more he loved another sinful woman by telling her her sins had been forgiven as she poured out her oil her whole livelihood upon him. An outcast Samaritan woman by offering her living water. You remember the woman in John chapter 4? She came in the middle of the day, in the heat of the day, to draw her water, and there was Jesus waiting by a well in an appointment. He didn't have iCalendar, but he knew he needed to be there. And he was there waiting for that woman by the well. The reason she came out in the middle of the day was to avoid all the gossip. Jesus asked her for a drink of water and she wanted to know why he a Jew was speaking to her a Samaritan and Jesus said if you knew who it was asking you for a drink of water you would have asked him and he would have given you living water then he told her to go call her husband and she said I have no husband and he said you're right you've had five and the one you're with now is not your husband What do you think the woman's problem was? …
… destruction. First John chapter 4, put it on the screen. 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. 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. …
… He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 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. 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? …
… God showed his love among us. He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him. This is love. 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. …
… The one who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love. And by this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten 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. …