LE: 1 John 4:9-11

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For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!

Whoever believes in the Son [Jesus Christ] has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

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The Love of God

1 John 4:9-11

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.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

The love of God is linked to the cross - it has been observed that where Sripture speaks of the love of God, it speaks of the cross of Christ. For it was on the cross that love was poured out. The cross was a sacrifice for an underserving people - you and I, who would be still in our sins if Christ had not died. The love here is agape (Greek), where a agape love gives and loves because it wants to; it does not demand or expect repayment - it gives because it loves, it does not love in order to receive. It is many magnitudes more magnificant than phileo - the love of a friend.

The Apostle John [Bible author]
1 John 4:9-11
Posted: 05 Feb 2023

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