1. I John 4:7-21

2. 1) What God Is: “God is Love”
1 John 4:7-8

3. 1) What God Is: “God is Love”
 God is spirit (John 4:24)

4. 1) What God Is: “God is Love”
 God is spirit (John 4:24)
 God is light (1John 1:5)

5. 1) What God Is: “God is Love”
 God is spirit (John 4:24)
 God is light (1John 1:5)
 God is love (1John 4:8)

6. 1 Timothy 6:16
…who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

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8. 1 John 4:9-11 1) What God Is: “God is Love”
2) What God Did: “He Sent His Son”
1 John 4:9-11

9. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people

10. that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all people,
but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has

11. brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8

12. Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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14. 2 purposes for Christ’s death on the cross:

15. 1) That we might live through him (verse 9)
2 purposes for Christ’s death on the cross:
1) That we might live through him (verse 9)

16. 1) That we might live through him (verse 9)
2 purposes for Christ’s death on the cross:
1) That we might live through him (verse 9)
2) That he might be the propitiation for our sins (verse 10)

17. If Christ, by dying, has made full satisfaction, then God can consistently pardon the greatest of sinners that believe in Jesus.
John Flavel

18. I John 4:7-21

19. Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you have been saved….

20. 2 Corinthians 5:21
(God) made (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

21. in Us” 1 John 4:12-16 1) What God Is: “God is Love”
2) What God Did: “He Sent His Son”
3) What God is Doing: “God Abides
in Us” 1 John 4:12-16

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23. John 5:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

24. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury
Love of God is the root, love of our neighbor the fruit of the Tree of Life. Neither can exist without the other, but the one is cause and the other effect.
William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury

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