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: