1. Grace Fellowship Church www.GraceDoctrine.org
Pastor/Teacher
Jim Rickard
Sunday,
September 7, 2008

2. 1 John Series 1 John 4:7-11

3. The Test of Impersonal Love

4. 1 John 4:8, “The person who does not operate in impersonal love, has not in the past and therefore does not currently know God, because God is love.”

5. HO ME AGAPAO Operating in I. U
HO ME AGAPAO Operating in I.U. love should be the ongoing state for the believer, however it is not generally or habitually occurring.

6. OUK GINOSKO HO THEOS If you reside in the Cosmic System, you won't know God and therefore you won't be able to express the love of God to mankind.

7. Why are people unable to love?

8. Why are people unable to love? They do not know God, who is love.

9. HOTI HO THEOS AGAPE EIMI “God is love” is a general statement of a timeless fact, which perpetually exists. It is an attribute and the essence of who God is.

10. 1 John 4:8, “The person who does not operate in impersonal love, has not in the past and therefore does not currently know God, because God is love.”

11. Principles of Verse 8: 1. Lack of impersonal love as a virtue directed toward man, is the manifestation of cosmic involvement.

12. 2. Cosmic involvement means failure to learn Bible doctrine, plus failure to develop virtue in life.

13. 3. Failure to learn Bible doctrine means ignorance of God.

14. 4. Ignorance of God means failure to execute His Plan in time.

15. 5. Failure to execute His Plan in time connotes non-residence in GPS.

16. 6. No-residence in GPS means failure to manufacture virtue, honor, and integrity for the execution of the Christian way of life and glorification of God in time.

17. 7. As a result the Christian becomes anti-Christ, the agent of the devil, the enemy of God, the enemy of the cross, living a lie, walking in darkness, etc.

18. 8. If you know God by learning His Word, you will operate in I. U
8. If you know God by learning His Word, you will operate in I. U. Love towards all of mankind, bringing rewardable eternal glory to God and Jesus Christ.

19. Communion

20. Romans 5:8, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

21. Offering

22. Needs: Houston Conference air travel = $350 -200 $150

23. Grace Fellowship Church
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Tape # 08S-034
Failure to Love is Failure
in Knowing God ~ Communion
1 John Series
1 John 4:7-8; Rom 5:8
James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2008