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God Is Love 1 John 4:7–12 INTRODUCTION “What Is Love God is Love 1 John 4:7–12 INTRODUCTION “What is love?” That’s the question a British newspaper was asking in an article I read several years back. The writer of the article garnered opinions from those whom they considered to be experts. They asked a physicist. His answer was that love is basically chemistry, and we really have no control over it because we’re talking about the release of chemicals such as pheromones and dopamine. Not only that, love is a survival tool that we have evolved over time to promote long-term relationships. They asked a psychotherapist. Her answer was that love is a variety of emotions—sexual, non- sexual, brotherly—but that we must not forget self-love, because unless you love yourself, you can’t love others. They asked a writer of romance novels. Unsurprisingly, she couldn’t really define love. After all, from her vantage point, it depends on your situation. But one thing is certain, it’s the emotion that drives all great stories. Is love chemistry? Is love emotions? Is love the undefined driver of good novels? What is love? We use the word love in a variety of ways. We use the word love to refer to just about everything and anything. We use love in reference to what we cherish most: “I love God.” “I love my family.” But we also use the word love to regularly refer to things that are of lesser value. My wife made an apple pie the other day, and halfway through the first piece I said, “I love apple pie.” So, what is love? We’ve been talking about the attributes of God since mid-February. The perfections of God. The things that make him who he is. We’ve looked at attributes such as his supremacy, his sovereignty, his holiness. And today we look at his love. But it’s not just that God has love or shows love. In two verses, verses 8 and 16, of 1 John 4, we find this phrase: “God is love.” In other words, any discussion about love has to begin with God, because that’s who he is. And if the very essence of God is love, then we would be remiss to try and understand love apart from him. If we fail to understand what is meant by that phrase, “God is love,” will we be able to even experience the love that humanity longs for? TRANS: J. I. Packer once said, ‘“God is love’ is one of the most significant and misunderstood statements in all the Bible. False ideas have grown up round it like a hedge of thorns, hiding its real meaning from view, and it is no small task cutting through this tangle of mental undergrowth. Yet the hard thought involved is more than repaid when the true sense of the text comes home to the Christian soul.” What makes it hard, in my opinion, is the fact that we come to the word “love” with all sorts of ideas drawn from experience, romanticism, and culture, and we run the risk of projecting onto God something other than what he is. Well, my hope this morning is that we would come away with a true sense of God’s love. READ 1 JOHN 4:7–12…. John was an older man by the time he wrote his first letter. Some thirty to sixty years have passed since the resurrection. When he was younger, he had the privilege of walking daily with Jesus for three years. He heard his sermons, he saw the miracles, and he witnessed first-hand how Jesus dealt with people. He had been part of that inner circle with James and Peter. He watched Jesus die as well as saw him after his resurrection. He was there at Pentecost, seeing the church grow day by day. And now, even with the passage of time, John still finds himself enamored by the love of God. It hasn’t grown stale or cold. Here’s how I know. John 3:1: “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God.” 1. Love has its origin in God (vv.7–8). As John begins, he points out that love has its origin in God. In verses 7 and 8, you’ll notice that he says something about us, but grounded in God. He says two things: One, you need to love one another. Why? Because love is from God. Second, he says our lack of love for others is indicative of our relationship with God. Why? Because God is love. It is God’s very nature to love. In the same way the Bible says that God is Spirit or that God is light, it is true that the nature of God is love. But notice what he doesn’t say. He doesn’t say love is God. And the reason he doesn’t is because to say that love is God is to say that love defines God. Yet, what we see is that God defines love. And as a result—although hard to grasp at times—everything that God does is love. So, how should we think of the love of God? Let me briefly give you six ways in which we should think of God’s love: #1 God’s love is uninfluenced. This may be hard to understood, but there was nothing in you that moved God to love you. Of course, I’m not trying to say that you’re an unlovable person, but when we think about God’s love towards his children, it’s important to know that he loves us because he loves us. Listen to what it says in Deuteronomy 7:7–8. Speaking to the Israelites, “It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the LORD loves you.” Here’s why I think this is so important. Because it also means that God loves before we even have a chance to love him. It means God loves his children even when they’re unlovable. #2 God’s love is eternal. Did you know that God loved his people even before heaven and earth were called into existence? In Paul’s letter to the believers at Ephesus he writes, “He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption.” Think about that. If you’re a believer, God’s love towards you has no beginning and will certainly have no end. #3 God’s love is infinite. There is a depth to his love that none can understand. There is a height, a length, and breadth to the love of God which we cannot fathom. That’s why Paul prays in Ephesians 3 that believers would have strength to comprehend it. #4 God’s love is unchanging. After all, God himself cannot change. And if God is love, then that too remains the same. In those final hours with his disciples, about the time he was getting ready to wash their feet in an act of service and humility, the Apostle John reminds us that “he loved them until the end” (John 13:1). Through all of their shortcomings, and through all of the trials, Jesus’ love remained the same. Yet we hear people all the time, for whatever reason, claim that they have fallen out of love or no longer love so-and-so. #5 God’s love is holy. You’ve probably heard it said that love can cause a person to do foolish things. Not so with God. His love is not blind to sin. Perhaps that is why the author of Hebrews tells us that God disciplines those whom he loves (Hebrews 12:6). His love is not driven by sentimentality or subjectivity. #6 God’s love is gracious. We will see this a bit further in 1 John, but suffice it to say the love of God was most clearly shown in his determination to give his Son to sinners. And when we’re tempted to doubt God’s love for us, we need only to go back to the crucifixion and see God’s gracious love in the giving up of his Son. The love of God summons us to love (7). Well, because of all this, John addresses his readers in verse 7 as “beloved.” You could even render that as “dear friends.” He cares about his readers, and he is summoning them to love one another. This isn’t the first time he has told them to do so in this book. But now, John is grounding it a bit differently. He tells them to love one another “for love is from God.” Keep in mind, John is talking about believers loving one another. This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t love those who have not trusted in Christ. I think that becomes clear a bit later on. But he’s also not saying that unbelievers are incapable of love. All of us probably know lost people who are very loving, and in fact are more loving than some of the believers we know. After all, everyone is created in the image of God. Even though the fall has marred that image, God in his common grace has allowed humans the capacity to love.
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