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1 John 4:17-21 Exploring The Way


1 John 4:17-21 And as we live with Christ, our love grows more perfect and complete; so we will not be ashamed and embarrassed at the day of judgment, but can face him with confidence and joy, because he loves us and we love him too.

We need have no fear of someone who loves us perfectly; his perfect love for us eliminates all dread of what he might do to us. If we are afraid, it is for fear of what he might do to us, and shows that we are not fully convinced  that he really loves us.

So you see, our love for him comes as a result of his loving us first.

If anyone says "I love God," but keeps on hating his brother, he is a lair; for if he doesn't love his brother who is right there in front of him, how can he love God whom he has never seen?

And God himself has said that one must love not only God, but his brother too.

1 John 2:28-29 And now, my little children, stay in happy fellowship with the Lord so that when he comes you will be sure that all is well, and will not have to be ashamed and shrink back from meeting him.

Since we know that God is always good and does only right, we may rightly assume that all those who do right are his children.

1 John 4:7-11 Dear friends, let us practice loving each other, for love comes from God and those who are loving and kind show that they are the children of God, and that they are getting to know him better.

But if a person isn't loving and kind, it shows that he doesn't know God--for God is love.

God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into this wicked world to bring to us eternal life through his death.

In this act we see what real love is; it is not our love for God, but his love for us when he sent his Son to satisfy God's anger against our sins.

Dear friends, since God loved us as much as that, we surely ought to love each other too.