12-24: Advent :: Christmas Love

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1 John 4:7-16

God’s Love and Ours

[7] Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. [8] Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. [9] 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. [10] This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. [11] Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. [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.

[13] This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. [14] And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. [15] If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. [16] And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

Notes Outline

1. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

2. The Origin of Love

   1. 1 John 4:7-8

      1. Eros - sensual love.

      2. Storge - natural love.

      3. Phileo - closeness due to relationship

      4. Agape - sacrificial love that manifests itself even when there is no relationship

3. The Example of Love

   1. 1 John 4:9-10

      1. It is visible.

      2. It is decisive.

      3. It is sacrificial.

      4. It is purposeful.

      5. It is judicial.

   2. 1 John 2:2

4. The Outworking of Love

   1. 1 John 4:11-12

   2. John 14:21