All his works and ways are utterly opposed to sin. Apart from justice, goodness is impossible. The blessedness which awaits us in the future is but the unfolding of the present life of the soul. c. They point you to the cross that you might see the supreme manifestation of God's love, hoping that it find some responsive chord in your heart. Pulpit Fiction, plus podcast. 1 John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. The beast of the field sees not the beauty of the flower. We can abide in the love God has for us by using our consciousness of this love to motivate us to avoid temptations to sin. He goes to his house and he finds it stored with plenty — "his bread is given him, and his water is sure." Jesus is sent. 1. 2. When we remember, then, that dark things not only reveal but call forth the better and higher dispositions of man, may we not see that the burden of some perplexing problems is somewhat lightened? We may move our pieces where we please, but each piece has its assigned move. When we play the game, we are free to play our own game, but according to the rules. If we are afraid of them, we shall be timid, scrupulous in all work which comes under their eye, and along with our dread we shall cherish a subtle dislike. In this sacred enclosure all things work together for good: even things evil do not come to us with power to hurt. Courage asserts itself in the hour of peril — on the battlefield and on the sinking deck; humanity and presence of mind in the midst of panic and risk — in the outbreaking of the fire or in the hospital ward. If God be love, He cannot introduce, nor act upon, any opposite principle. f. The purpose of prayer is to see God's will accomplished. No soul can dwell in love into whom first the Holy Spirit has not descended bringing the love. Creation without mind is a body without soul, a dead form without vitality. Choose from below or see additional sermons using our bible scripture sorting tool. (4) And Jesus was given, not to those who waited to receive and honour him, but to those who despised and rejected him. So the universe is an embodiment of the ideas of the Divine mind, a revelation of the thought and feeling of the Creator. The first position, that of knowing God's love, is the sweetest, but that of believing God's love, is the grandest. The highest outcome of theological speculation is "God is a Spirit," by which we mean emphatically to deny that He is matter and has dimensions and can be located in space; and emphatically to affirm that, like thought itself, He is distinct from matter and does not share its properties or limitations. 1 John 4:16. Observe how constantly the Scripture word looks to the love of God, for the ingeneration of love in men, and so for their salvation. Minor Prophets 1. Let us take the element of insight first. Historical Books He also told his disciples, “You are the light of the world,” and told them to let their light shine that people, seeing their … Bible> 1 John> Chapter 4> Verse 16 ◄1 John 4:16 ► And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. As with insight so with power. "GOD IS LOVE" — A TRUTH UNKNOWN TO THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD. Just like little children imitate their parents, so you need to imitate God. What is the result of our love being perfected? Thus the newborn life is to be "the love of God, shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost." II. I take the text to mean that the love of God is manifested in a most striking manner in the history of our world; but most of all in the subject which the apostle has been discussing — the salvation of the lost and sinful through the mediation of Christ. Whence come war and slavery, distress and poverty, pain and sorrow, disease and "the bitterness of death"? IV. 8. But now, having ascended this third step, and being face to face with the fact that our life is a life in God, that, in the most vital sense, we are encompassed by God, we are like timid people who find themselves for the first time on the ridge of a mighty mountain; we tremble, we are afraid to remain in the position, we shrink from the transcendent vision. Glory and love are inseparably connected. The redemption of the soul is most precious and most difficult. The highest good is greatness, purity, goodness of character. And nevertheless, that universal love is at the same time an INDIVIDUAL love. Restoration to the lost, pardon to the guilty, sanctification to the sinful, glory to the degraded, he gives. General Epistles God is love. 5:2, 25; 1 John 4:9-10), I worked out this definition: Biblical love is a self-sacrificing, caring commitment that shows itself in seeking the highest good of the one loved. How rich are the results of the communication of the Holy Spirit, with His gifts and graces! Pauline Epistles It seems to become more and more fertile, more filled with springs and streams of new thought, more glorious with dawns and sunsets of vision and human hope, the oftener it is visited. The Bible is the revelation of God in his relation to man as a sinner. "We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. First of all, the certain continuance of that spirit of love, whereby the Lord's people are called. 2. Paley states the argument with clearness and force: "Contrivance proves design; and the predominant tendency of the contrivance indicates the disposition of the desirer. 4. Pauline Epistles If their doctrine contradicts what God has already revealed, they are to be rejected (this is akin to what John wrote) CONCLUSION 1. Any act of mercy, being extra-judicial, being of a different order from the case supposed, cannot enter into our present vindication of essential love. Wealth is only good in seeming, knowledge is only good in transition; but character abides. How is our love perfected? Joel Gibbs Gibbs Evening 1 John 3:11-18 c. I have no fear for my immediate future. God is love, contemplated in Trinity. The Christian activities, tendernesses, and mercies to which love impels us, are earnests of the as yet unimaginable activities and tendernesses of the world to come. The same manifestation of a human life dwelling in God is to be discovered in Christ's exercise of power. Pain is the exception, not the rule, in human life. The Obligation of Love 4:11-16. by Chester McCalley. The words of the hymn: "O to lie forever here. God therefore desires for us the very best that can be. (2) Grace. There are other ways in which God's children know their Father's love. Goodness. 1 John 3:1 . For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son. General Epistles Pentateuch It displays its earliest effect in creating objects for itself. III. A verification email has been sent to the address you provided. III. 1. God's works were known to Him from eternity. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. I am sure, in looking back, you will say, "Oh, how foolish I was ever to doubt a faithful and unchanging God!". Johannine Writings Wisdom Literature Christ dwelt in God. It was to foreshadow the great future awaiting our race, as much as to reveal God, that His miracles were wrought. The experience of His perfect love for me has cast out all fear. The love, dwelling in which is one with dwelling in God, is not any love; it is not all that passes by the name of love: it is that love only which has been poured forth in Christ for the salvation of the world. 2. But just that is our happiness, as redeemed creatures, now. The world we think of and enter when we take refuge in the love of God is a world in which everything is of God, a world whose inhabitants live and move and have their being in God. What could have been the primary object which the Creator had in view in the works of creation? See it in the first promise, which raised the prostrated hopes of our sinful pro genitors; in the numerous and expressive types which were to usher in the bright day of discovery; in the accurate and splendid predictions of that long line of holy men "who testified beforehand of the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow." B. John here declares that we love the Lord because He first loved us. To ask what more A sinner of mankind, doing the utmost possible, can be expected or required to do. God was pleased to create man an intelligent and reasonable being. The question then is, What is moral good — genuine virtue? ", II. There are affections which weaken, enervate, and degrade the soul. IV. I will not expatiate on the functions of conscience and of love which are spiritual faculties bestowed for the moral government of ourselves and of the race and for the supreme and noblest kind of happiness attainable on earth. "You must cut the diamond," said Thomas Jones, "to understand its value, and to behold the play of its tremulous colours when the sun-rays fall upon its surface. A happy soul is necessarily communicative. Letting God love us with such love, is adequate remedy therefore and complete, and is no mere nerveless quietism, as some might hastily judge. The Purpose of Advent. No, I will leave that. A. Partiality or favouritism, without reference to personal merit, is a mark of weakness, which is common in the human, but impossible in the Divine. Others testified that Jesus was the light (Matthew 4:16; Luke 2:32; John 1:1-4)––and Jesus said of himself, “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12). There is subordination of trust. "Ah," says one, "we have sometimes doubted it." ON GUARD . We often think that love is a sentimental, syrupy feeling. 1 John 4:16. 3. In all these various manifestations of the Divine character, we find evidence of the text, "God is love." Prophets In the Bible. It is a fascination. He was given to labour and suffer and die for men, in order that they might have life and joy (cf. No Fear In Love Series Contributed by Allan Quak on Jul 24, 2020 | 1,094 views. ", b. Paul said, "God manifested His love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly.". Who can understand why pain falls on the innocent, and, as it sometimes seems, the heaviest penalty on those who have not sinned the most? GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. Love is the essence and nature of His being. Jesus has promised to be with me to the end of the age. -------------------- I. No general declaration of God's love will answer this purpose. Can he starve out his sins by fasting, or wear them out by a pilgrimage, or whip them out by penances, or give them away in alms? 2. Sermon Bible Commentary. I observe next that the elements in Christ's life which reveal this dwelling of the soul in God are present, however dimly, in all Christian life. 1. Love MAY BE CONSIDERED TO SUBSIST IN THE DIVINE NATURE UNDER THE FOLLOWING MODIFICATIONS. We are often told of the "verdant earth," the "azure sky," the thundering crash of the Niagara's falls, the beautiful plains of Italy. b. I have no fear of the present. 5. The One who loves me perfectly has taken my sins for me, He paid the price for my redemption because He loved me. God is love, regarded in Covenant. 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A Christian eye, like the Master's, sees possibilities of penitence, of well-doing, and salvation in outcasts, heathen people, and embruted slaves, in whom other eyes see nothing but material for wrath and scorn. For if a man but offers himself up trustfully and clear of all hindrance to the love of God in Jesus Christ, saying, though it be in silence, "Be it upon me; let it come and do its sweet will in me"; plainly that is but letting God love him, and yet what is it but faith? -------------------- This great truth is THE GROUNDWORK OF CHRISTIAN ENCOURAGEMENT. Major Prophets 5. C. If you dwell in love, you are dwelling in God and God is dwelling in you. A SUMMARY OF THE BELIEVER'S TESTIMONY. Our love for Him is a response of His great love for us. Secondly: That the love of God is manifested in the exercise of His mercy, or in the salvation of the godly. But, granting that this was the chief purpose of creation, the showing of God's glory, and the securing of His praise, it still follows that the works of nature must be a manifestation of His love. Even this - that it is not without its beauties, and in its bleak and trying months nature is silently and secretly preparing the beauties of the coming spring, the glories of summer, and the bounties of autumn. a. I have no fear of the consequences of my wicked past, God has erased it. At such a time, noble is the Christian who can say, "Now it may be I do not know the love that God hath to me, but I believe it." 3. In the psalm that we read this morning, David said, "I love the Lord because He has heard the voice of my supplication.". You may insert it in your confession, but I will not put it into my song. 1 John 4:16 New International Version (NIV) 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. A pagan said, "When God was about to make the world He transformed Himself into love." By the way, if you are reading this sermon online please feel free to leave your comments at the end. II. 1. Luke-Acts The procedures of His disciplinary providence have contributed to sanctification. And this is the love of compassion. It is a love not out of harmony with the sterner aspects of God's government, as seen in the world around us. I can see a gracious providence pouring forth out of the cornucopia of providence — an abundance of all that my soul can desire." 2. Summer, with its rich light and heat, its abounding life and glory, is a revelation of the inexhaustible beauty and glory and munificence of God. 1. Through Christ he bestows all good here, and eternal and glorious life hereafter to all who believe in him. 6. Break the chess rules and we only provoke disappointment. John does not mean that love is the essence of Deity — the substratum of all His moral character; or that all the attributes of God are simply modifications of His love, as the different colours of the rainbow are simply modifications of the pure sunray, or as light itself and heat and sound are simply modifications of the same material element. (Romans 5:3-5; also Romans 8:18, 28; 2 Corinthians 4:16-18; James 1:2, 3, 12). "He that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him." The machine is a revelation of the mechanist; the building, of the architect; the painting, of the painter; the poem, of the poet. God may not be blamed for the consequences which He has forewarned, which are wilfully incurred, and which He has given His creatures the fullest liberty, and urged them by the strongest remonstrance, to avoid. All the other creatures speak not with words. It is not possible to escape the boundaries of the flesh or to break the bars of thought; but it is possible to cherish good and loving thoughts. He not only saw as God sees, but what He saw was God. Your feedback is very important to us. Chester McCalley . Minor Prophets It is this which makes the Divine love so fitting a home for spiritual thought and a refuge for spiritual anxiety. Johannine Writings John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible Discover More About Relationships Submission: Training for Exiles, Part 2. conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy It is the believer's part in the great chorus to lift up voice and heart at once, and as an intelligent, living, loving, learning witness, to testify to God. 1. God planned the world; He also made it and governs it. But the Christian gospel goes beyond this, and declares that God eternally is love. Minor Prophets The Old Testament Consider, then — First: The plans or thoughts of God. THE PECULIAR CAUSE WHY THE REDEEMED OF THE EARTH, IN PARTICULAR, CAN BEAR WITNESS TO THIS TRUTH, THAT GOD IS LOVE. 5. 1 John 4:16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. True love, like the love of God, "seeks not its own.". The New Testament 1. Prophets General Epistles The sufferings of our race are only like one dark and stormy day in a whole year of smiling and joyous sunshine. The strongest faith, the intensest love, the profoundest gratitude, and the sublimest moral and spiritual power have been manifested, not by men in the clear day of their prosperity, but by the children of affliction in the dark night of sorrow." Thus even suffering and trial, when received and borne in a right spirit, witness to this glorious truth, that "God is Love." Another thing we can bear testimony to, is this — that the love of God is unconquerable. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” King James Version (KJV) This is the heart of the message of the Bible. If I am not on the other side Jordan, at least my master is on this side of it." The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, The glory of God is inseparably connected with His love. God could not endow a creature with such mental gifts without including in them natural liberty. The place to which the gospel raises love in the character of God. It has been proved that where there is no love there can be no justice. You are called, Jonathan & Alyssa, to imitate God, to be like God. Take away the love of God, His disposition to make His creatures happy, and what does He become? A. The world abounds with contrivances; and all the contrivances which we are acquainted with are directed to beneficial purposes.... We never discover a train of contrivance to bring about an evil purpose. It is not to his loyal subjects alone that these gifts are bestowed, but also to rebels against his authority. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. Life is like a game of chess. 1 John 4:1-6. Poetical Books B. IN DWELLING UPON DIVINE LOVE IN THIS ORDER OF ITS PARTICULAR AFFECTIONS AND OPERATIONS, SOME IMPORTANT DOCTRINES OF SCRIPTURE MUST BE MAINTAINED. Rev. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point The Holy Ghost is given. Major Prophets 1 John 4:11-16. 3. Historical Books The Whole Bible It is thus that the freshness of the gale and the fragrance of the flower can be enjoyed by the soul as perceptions as well as by the body as sensations. Why does he allow it to remain? c. It is much like a child saying to his parent, "If you really loved me, you would let me have nothing but a coke for lunch every day and eat nothing but hot fudge sundaes for dinner every night.". They dwell in God, and God dwells in them. This concerns itself with the misery and ruin which sin entails, and furnishes, in the room of these evil consequences, peace and joy and hope, everlasting consolation and eternal life. Sometimes he knows it by seeing it. IS THE MERCIFUL PROVISIONS OF HIS GRACE. The Divine Being was so happy in Himself that He made this vast universe. All the love of the Saviour's life was the love of God. His material creation, his universal providence, his moral laws, and the redemptive mission of his Son, are all resolutely set against evil. 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Therefore "let us rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh patience," etc. They are sometimes and more often seen in the quiet fidelity and prolonged patience of love, in the ministry of devoted and self-denying lives. His laws safeguard much and yet provide the sphere of education. c. There seems to no experience in the world that can quite equal that experience of first love. d. I have no fear of my eternal future. Does it not seem as though the finer aspects of character would have had little scope except in a world where pain and peril existed? Love seeks the highest good, and therefore love sets out the field of life in such a sort that the best qualities of life may be called forth. The mind can study the material and the spiritual, the creature and the uncreated. And this abiding good, called character, is the good which God desires for His children. 2. This contemplates simply moral obnoxiousness and liability, or guilt, meeting it with acts which may remove it, as also by influences that may subdue the depravity from which that exposure to punishment or that guilt could alone arise. Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The suffering that is in the world is often the means of goodness and joy. Sermon Message. Love which is weak and foolish tries to spare its children pain. (1) Forbearance. The heart that beats in His breast is that of the High priest of mankind. So by experience of scientific knowledge we prove some degree of community of nature between ourselves and the Author of the world around us. The hand which touched the blind to sight was human, but it would have been powerless if it had not moved in the stream of the power of God. The words of tenderness spoken to the healed were from human lips; but the love which informed them, and the life by which they had power to heal, were Divine. We have often revolted, but we have never found Him unwilling to forgive. I. The character could not ripen save under clear and well-defined conditions which gave scope to freedom and yet checked caprice. A miserly, yet happy, being is an impossibility. (Delivered Sunday, May 26, 2002 at Bethany Bible Church. 1 John 4:16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. And even if he should do so, there arises the inquiry - Is God love in his relation to the sinful? In the scale of reason the question of God's love must often seem a balanced one. C. How can it be that I have no fear of the judgment day? We violate the laws of God's universe, and we suffer in consequence. 2. The quality of our service will differ with the relationship we bear to those we serve. (3) The next supposition is that the chief end of creation was the production and supply of creature happiness. He enjoys it first as to his body, his animal nature, and then as to his soul. THERE IS TRIUMPH Vss. All the Divine perfections resolve themselves into love. The Old Testament The New Testament mute. For if this be "the first and great commandment, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart," then those qualities are to be found in Him which should be thus esteemed. Wherever love is, God is; wherever God is, He manifests Himself by love. ", c. Jeremiah said of God's compassions, "They are new every morning.". 5. a. Is not this the glory of the universe, the image of God? "Love, Divine love, Divine love giving, Divine love giving its only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth - not 'payeth,' not 'worketh,' not 'putteth out some external strength,' but 'believeth' - should not perish, but have everlasting life" (Dr. Joseph Parker). Suffering, or natural evil, as it is sometimes called, is the result of sin, or moral evil. Prophets Sermon Message. Love is the life of God in the same sense that a mother's love is the outflow of a mother's life. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us, God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him, this - the moral consciousness of men ever charges. I. ON WHAT GROUND OF EXPERIENCE HAVE WE ANY RIGHT TO ASSUME THAT THERE IS ANY COMMUNITY OF NATURE BETWEEN OUR HIGHEST SELVES AND GOD? The New Testament A. Rightly regarded, even winter testifies that "God is Love." He is like Job; the Lord hath set a hedge about him, and all that he possesseth. I. Or is it a dream far above us — a cloudland, mocking us with its gorgeous colours? 4. But freedom is not the same as immunity from conditions. God is Spirit and we are spirit too. As stars on the background of the midnight sky, the higher qualities of human nature have been seen among the dark mysteries of life. The terrible presence of sin and suffering in the world tends to make men doubt the love of God. The Old Testament 2. Another time in which he knows his Father's love is, when he sees it after coming out of affliction. 1 John 4:16, ESV: "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." Close. Now, truly, he can say, "I know the love of God to me, for I can see it. He therefore will not enforce our love or compel our faith. b. 1. Prophets 7. Spring, with its gradual unfolding of young life and verdant beauty, its quickening and joy-giving influence, is a revelation of God's tenderness and grace. Christ's insight is a great manifestation of a human life dwelling in God. Love which is wise and strong knows that experience must play a large, perhaps the largest, share in education. And so, contrary to what the world would have us believe, the source of love is not within us; it’s within the very being of God, for “God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.” (1 John 4:16) Having said that, we should hasten to add, God’s love is anything but abstract. And in what practical sense are we to receive the statement that a soul dwells in God? Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. Happy, thrice happy they, who fall asleep in Jesus! If we love them, all timidity and artifice will pass away. Why, the security of those souls who are thus distinguished by the love of God, and by being the temples of the Holy Ghost. Why Study 1 John? Therefore God can only seek man's highest good, and man's highest good is in character. But look at the mind as an entity apart from its special relation to a material form. And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. 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