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1 JOHN 4:7-12When God Wins, Love Wins
When God Wins, Love Wins
3 For the time will come when people will not put up with
sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great
number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
2 Timothy 4:3
What’s going on?
25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and
worshiped and served created things rather than the
Creator… 29 They have become filled with every kind of
wickedness, evil, greed and depravity….
Romans 1:25, 29
What’s going on?
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has
been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7
When God Wins, Love Wins
“Dear friends” = “beloved:”
“agapētos” = those who are loved
When God Wins, Love Wins
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has
been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7
When God Wins, Love Wins
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has
been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7
When God Wins, Love Wins
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has
been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7
When God Wins, Love Wins
“knows God”
“ginōskō” = true understanding
When God Wins, Love Wins
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is
love.
1 John 4:8
When God Wins, Love Wins
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has
been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not
love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:7-8
When God Wins, Love Wins
1 John 4:8 - “God is love”
When God Wins, Love Wins
John 4:24 - “God is spirit”
1 John 1:5 - “God is light”
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.
1 John 4:9
When God Wins, Love Wins
“showed”
“phanaroō” = appear, make known
phanaros = shining
When God Wins, Love Wins
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.
1 John 4:9
When God Wins, Love Wins
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 4:10
When God Wins, Love Wins
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 4:10
When God Wins, Love Wins
No pre-requisites
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 4:10
When God Wins, Love Wins
Active
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 4:10
When God Wins, Love Wins
Sacrificial
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love
one another.
1 John 4:11
When God Wins, Love Wins
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love
one another.
1 John 4:11
When God Wins, Love Wins
• No pre-requisites
• Active• Sacrificial
When God Wins, Love Wins
When God Wins, Love Wins
Walking
When God Wins, Love Wins
Walking
Tabernacle / Temple
When God Wins, Love Wins
Walking
Tabernacle / Temple
Jesus Christ
When God Wins, Love Wins
Walking
Tabernacle / Temple
Jesus Christ
Holy Spirit
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God
lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:12
When God Wins, Love Wins
Verse 7 - command
When God Wins, Love Wins
Verse 11 - privilege
Verse 12 – consequence (evidence)
Our Love:
“…let us love…”
“…since God so loved…”
“…if we love…his love is made complete…”
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God
lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:12
When God Wins, Love Wins
No prerequisites
When God Wins, Love Wins
Active
Sacrificial
God’s Love:
No prerequisites
When God Wins, Love Wins
Active
Sacrificial
God’s Love:
Light – holy, righteous
Spirit – eternity in mind
When God Wins, Love Wins
No prerequisites
When God Wins, Love Wins
Active
Sacrificial
God’s Love / Our Love: