A Perfect God…
Demonstrating Perfect Love…
Casting Out All Fear
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.
1 John 4:16 ESV
On the American calendar we designate one day a
year for love. February 14th is reserved for “Valentine’s Day”. It is
a day designated to express and receive love. As great as that is, think about
this…
God your Heavenly Father expresses His love 365
days a year, around the clock, twenty four hours a day! He never forgets or
fails!
God is love! In the New Testament book of 1st
John, God has a lot to say about love. His love is freely given to any, and to
all, who receive. 1st John speaks to the nature, identity, and definition of
God, when the writer explains that,…“God is love”.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God,
and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God,
because God is love. 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.
1 John 4:7-9 ESV
Life and love go
hand in hand for those who receive Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. The
scripture continues in verse 10, Jesus is the propitiation (payment) for our
sins.
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. 1 John 4:10-11 ESV
When we abide in Him, His love abides in us, and
that makes us “loveable”. (Smile)
His love is perfected
in us as we learn to receive and to give love.
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. By
this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for
the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out
fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been
perfected in love. 1 John 4:16-18 ESV
There is no fear
in perfect love. God’s love is perfect.
So this is what I
know…
A. God is love.
B. God’s love is
perfected in us.
C. Perfect love
casts out all fear!
The Creator is
defined by love, and Love is defined
through relationship with the Creator.
God is love…A
perfect God, demonstrating perfect love, casting out all fear.
We have come into an
intimate experience with God’s love, and we trust in the love he has for us. God
is love! Those who are living in love are living in God, and God lives through
them. 1 John 4:16 TPT
Passionate
for the cause of Christ,
Pastor
Randy R. Urich
MAG
Church, 02-21-2020
For from his fullness
we have all received,
grace upon grace, John
1:16 ESV
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