god manifested in us! 1 john 4:12 people do not see god. ________________________________ if we love...
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God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:12
People do not see God.________________________________
If we love one another, they see God in us!
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:12
Takes us back to 3:24______________
Two aspects: faith and love ______________
This is why we must fight false teaching (4:1-7)
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:12
3:24 - Two aspects; one commandment_______________
If Jesus isn't the Christ, God's Son, who manifested God's love toward us, there is no
basis for love!
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:12
God is at home with those who exercise genuine Christian love!
Eph. 3:14-19
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:12
God's love reaches its highest expression when we reproduce God's love in the church!
John 13:34
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:13
When we love one another, we are participating in a spirit of love.
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Our love manifests the inward abiding Spirit of God.
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:13
When we love as He loves, God is loving our brothers and sisters through us!
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:14
By the Spirit, when we love one another, we can experience what the Apostles experienced!
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Christ, the Eternal Life, is re-manifested in our body, our local fellowship!
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:14
"And so..."
We can be living witnesses to the reality that the Son who saved us is the Savior of the world!
John 13:34-35
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:14
The church can be a source of evangelism when the reality of Christ's love is present!
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:15
We often do this in our fellowship in many ways; in prayer, in song, in instruction.
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:15
This is full-circle to what John wanted
1 John 1:1-4; 3:23_________________
John 11:25-27; 20:30-31
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:15
Matt. 16:16-17
This doesn't happen without God turning the lights on!
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:16
Our experience of this in the context of church is strengthening!
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We get a new experience and confidence in God's love!
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:16
"has for us" = "has among us"_________________
When we love one another, God's expression of love is "reincarnated" among us!
God Manifested in Us! 1 John 4:16
The value of the local Christian community could not be more important...
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...nor could the importance of our walking in truth and loving one another.
Boldness at the Judgment Seat - 4:17
Love reaches it's greatest expression in the Christian community!
Boldness at the Judgment Seat - 4:17
Day of Judgment
2 Cor. 5:10; Rom. 14:10-12; 1 Cor. 3:11-15
Boldness at the Judgment Seat - 4:17
God is love.
As we love one another, we express the reality of who God is and what He has commanded.
Boldness at the Judgment Seat - 4:17
We will have confidence because we will have done what He has required of us.
Boldness at the Judgment Seat - 4:18
"no fear" = "terror"_______________
"Perfect love" = "a mature love that has reached its goal or objective"
Hodges
Boldness at the Judgment Seat - 4:18
When we love as we are told, we don't need to be concerned about our future evaluation.
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Genuine love leads to genuine confidence before God.
Boldness at the Judgment Seat - 4:18
A failure to love as we have been commanded properly results in a fear of future evaluation.
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That fear alone is "punishment".
Boldness at the Judgment Seat - 4:19
Our love for God is sourced in His love for us!
John 14:21, 23-24
Boldness at the Judgment Seat - 4:19
When our fellowship loves, the glory goes to the God who first loved us!