Title: I Love God
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love God
1 John 4:16-21
While unbelievers criticize the saints, those who believe in Jesus
When you hear that you seem to be good at what you do, but only words seem to precede actions, you realize the guilt and lack of not being able to live a life that is an example of your faith.
Not being able to achieve as much as I said is a reflection as a member of the church and makes me realize how important practice is.
The Apostle Paul also makes us think about what kind of evidence a person who loves God should show toward those who say that he loves God easily.
If you want to love God
The fact that the source of love is God and only those who can prove that they belong to God through the practice of that love can boldly come before God on the day of judgment.
Love that is not based on the true truth, the gospel of Christ's redemption, is a worldly love that has nothing to do with God by nature. Satan's ark, which satisfies the lives of people, will be hidden.
Even though the existence of the saints itself was created from the love of absolute redemption, the practice of love should be the mode and method of the saints' survival.
Apostle John must have been born of God the Beloved
Those who do not love say they do not know God
Because the relationship between God, the subject of redemption, and man, the object of redemption, is essentially love.
Only those who love can have fellowship with God, and when they love, God's love abides in them.
It is said that perfect love for one's brother can be shown.
1. First, we must be able to thank God for His love.
One of the ways to distinguish whether a believer's heart has been thoroughly changed or is simply a nominal believer.
When I pay attention to the words on his lips
If thanks and praise and virtuous words continue on his lips, will he acknowledge the change of heart?
If language such as complaining, gossip, envy, and jealousy continues on his lips, the change he advocates will be questioned.
Being able to be truly grateful will give you the evidence that you are a person who realizes God's love and truly loves God.
Those who are convinced of the fact that he has saved himself, who is bound to be destroyed by sin, and transformed him into heirs of God, the supreme ruler of all, will love God and give thanks for his love.
The Apostle Paul repeatedly emphasized the unchanging fact that God first loved us.
I am expressing my gratitude and emotion for that love.
Those who have experienced God's love deeply and have God's deep love can confirm the thrilling gratitude (Zechariah 3:11, Psalm 136:1-26, 1 Corinthians 1:4)
Like the forefathers of faith, our hearts should be able to constantly overflow with the utmost love for God.
2. We must cast off the fear caused by sin
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. He who loves God must never fear God.
Fear is the cause of sin that comes from a lack of love through hate, indifference, selfishness
Fear is not the awe you have as a creature for God, the Lord of heaven and earth.
The fear of fearing God draws closer to God and makes efforts to purify oneself, but those who have fear of sin try to avoid God, hate Him, and dislike Him.
After Adam and Eve, the ancestors of mankind, sinned, they feared God
If you truly love God, even if you have sinned temporarily, it is more necessary to come to God and sincerely repent than to avoid God in fear.
Now it is time to shake off the useless fear of God.
God has already forgiven us of all our sins and of course commanded us not to fear.
God's love is demonstrated when we boldly shake off the fear of sin that Satan gives us.
Those who love God will love their brothers and neighbors
If you truly love God, you will keep the commandments God has commanded and love your brother and neighbor.
Anyone who says I love God and hates his brother is a liar.
If you want to be full of God's love and passionately love God
First, you will spread love to your close family and neighbors
The love that is bestowed, though seemingly insignificant, will prove the love of God and the will to obey the word of God.
God's love is a love of sacrifice
Because he loved us only for our sinners who have turned away from the love of God and are enemies of God.
He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross as the price for our sins
God loved us first, even when we did not love, even when we turned our backs on us and became enemies, and sent His Son as a propitiation.
This unconditional and sacrificial love of God should not be a condition of selfish benefit.
God commands us to do sacrificial and unconditional love just as the Lord has given us.
God's infinite love
I, the LORD, appeared to Israel of old, saying, "I have loved you with undying love, so I have led you with kindness."
God's love has no limits and is eternal as an infinite love that transcends time and space.
He gives the same love and encourages people who are still in their sins and cannot expect the hope of tomorrow. God's love does not change easily and He loves the saints to the end.
It is always unchanging, unshaken by nothing, and it is a love that is unchangingly given even to those who have betrayed themselves and are enemies, and it is a love that is given endlessly until they turn back.
God's love is a love that gives hope
God's love for us has a purpose to save and bless us
We put a lot of hope in the world for wealth, fame, and power.
The desires for wealth and fame and power in the world are not eternal and temporary
Life's greatest hope is to have eternal life
However, as we are sinners who cannot but die, we cannot use any power in the world that leads to destruction.
there is nothing that can be done
No matter how hard we work in the world, we will never be able to achieve that wish.
So, life can only be lived in emptiness and despair.
The Lord God loves us and has given us eternal life so that our hopes may come true.
We should seek the love that gives eternal hope, not the vain hopes of the world.
True love does not end with momentary pleasures, but is eternal and life-giving.
Why Saints Should Love One Another
God has come into history specifically to express God's love through love itself.
This is the greatest event in history, the incarnation of Christ.
In this way, God?셲 love through Christ is not selfish but sacrificial.
It is the love of the power to save sinners.
We became children of God by that love, and this is the great love he has for us.
The reason God told us to love one another in imitation of the love of God is because He loved us.
God unconditionally saves us, who have no power to be destroyed forever in our sins.
He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to save us by dying on the cross to pay for our sins.
Because God so loved, we ought to love one another.
We love one another because God dwells in us.
It is a miracle that walks with us that a holy God dwells in us as sinners.
When you give love with love, which is the attribute of God, you will live in the saints who have restored the image of God and give them the ability to continue to love more abundantly.
On the other hand, when we do not love each other, it means that God is not with us.
We are to have the same essence as God in our love for one another, and we must embrace it
Through love, God dwells in us and we also have the wonderful experience of grace to share in His character
We must be active practitioners of love so that God always dwells in us.
to make full love
When we love one another, God's love is fully realized in us.
God's great and great love is already being realized in the life we love each other.
It means the state of being fulfilled and completed, and at the same time, it means the state that must be practiced and completed in our lives.
When we love one another, God's love is fully realized in us.