Authentic Christianity an Exposition of 1 John THE

Authentic Christianity; an Exposition of 1 John THE PERFECTION OF LOVE 1 John 4: 7 -14 Pew Bible p. 1209

1 John 3: 18 NCV My children, we should love people not only with words and talk, but by our actions and true caring.

Authentic Christianity • Believe right • Do right • Love right

Truth to Take with You The more we love one another, the more God will be revealed to the world.

This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 1 John 3: 11 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 1 John 3: 23 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. John 13: 34

Dear friends, let us love one another. 1 John 4: 7 a Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4: 11

1 John 3: 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.

1 John 4: 7 c-8 a Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God…

1 John 3: 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

1 John 4: 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us… 1 John 4: 10 a …love comes from God. 1 John 4: 7 b God is love. 1 John 4: 8 b

1 John 4: 9 -10 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 3: 16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.

1 John 2: 9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.

1 John 3: 16 Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

1 John 3: 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

1 John 3: 18 NCV My children, we should love people not only with words and talk, but by our actions and true caring.

Two Reasons to Love 1. Jesus commands us to love one another.

John 13: 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Two Reasons to Love: 1. Jesus commands us to love one another. 2. Loving each other as God loved us through Christ displays the glory of God to the world.

1 John 4: 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

John 13: 35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.

Truth to Take with You The more we love one another, the more God will be revealed to the world.

Challenge Make it your goal to allow God to perfect His love in and through you.