Tag: love

• First John 4:19-21: God is Love

  

  Mature Love is Expressed through Love for One Another 4:19 We love because He first loved us. 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his fellow believer, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his fellow believer whom he has seen, cannot love the God whom he has not…

  Matthew Jones

  October 4, 2024

  1 John, God is Love

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• First John 4:13-18: God is Love

  

  The Presence of Mature Loves Provides Assurance of Fellowship 4:13 This is how we know that we abide in Him and He abides in us, by virtue of His Spirit whom He has given to us. 4:14 We have seen and we testify that the Father sent the Son as the world’s Savior. 4:15 Whoever…

  Matthew Jones

  September 27, 2024

  1 John, God is Love

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• First John 4:9-12: God is Love

  

  God’s Love was Revealed in Jesus Christ and is Expressed Through Us 4:9 And this is how the love of God was revealed among us: God has sent His one and only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 4:10 This is love: Not that we have loved God, but that…

  Matthew Jones

  September 20, 2024

  1 John, God is Love

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• First John 4:7-8 / Overview: God is Love

  

  Third Proclamation Section: God is Love. 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God because God is love. 4:9 And this is how the love of God was revealed…

  Matthew Jones

  September 13, 2024

  1 John, God is Love

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• First John 3:9-10: God is Righteous

  

  Practicing Righteousness or Sin is a Result of Paternity 3:1 Look at the kind of love the Father has given to us, that we are called God’s children. And we really are! Because of this the world does not know us. And it is no wonder, because it did not know Him. 3:2 Beloved, right…

  Matthew Jones

  August 2, 2024

  1 John, God is righteous

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• First John 2:9-11: God is Light

  

  Walking in the Darkness vs. Walking in the Light 2:9 The one who says, “I am in the light,” and yet hates his fellow believer, is still in the darkness. 2:10 The one who loves his fellow believer abides in the light and there is nothing in him to cause others to stumble. 2:11 But…

  Matthew Jones

  May 24, 2024

  1 John, God is Light

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• First John 2:7-8: God is Light

  

  Walking in the Darkness vs. Walking in the Light 2:7 Beloved, what I am writing to you is not a new commandment, but an old commandment which you have possessed from the beginning. This old commandment is the message which you have heard all along. 2:8 And yet, what I am writing to you is…

  Matthew Jones

  May 17, 2024

  1 John, God is Light

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• First John 2:3-6: God is Light

  

  Walking in the Darkness vs. Walking in the Light 2:3 Now the way we know that we know ˹God˺ is if we keep His commandments. 2:4 The one who says, “I know Him,” while not keeping His commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in this person. 2:5 But whoever keeps ˹Christ’s˺ word,…

  Matthew Jones

  May 10, 2024

  1 John, God is Light

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• Love

  

  22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23) Word Focusloveἀγάπη / agapē<Hear It> In the previous post I introduced Galatians 5:22-23 which is a list of nine character virtues known as the Fruit of the…

  Matthew Jones

  May 19, 2023

  Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians, Love – ἀγάπη, Word Focus

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