Title: Perfect Love/1 John 4:16-18
16 - We have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. He who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
17 - In this way love has been perfected for us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, just as you are, so are we in the world.
18 - There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, for fear has a penalty, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
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⇒ A young man and a young woman fell in love with each other. Even though they had just met, if they were not in front of them, they wanted to see them again. When we meet, we want to talk to each other while listening to each other's voices. I don't have anything special to say, but once we meet, the days are short and how time passes. Even when I opened my eyes and closed my eyes, I was dazzled, and even when I was sleeping and working, I only thought about him. I don't want to live apart from him anymore. We want to eat together, sleep together, and play together. So the two decided to merge their lives. This life is a marriage and a family.
. When a man and a woman they love become wives and husbands, a child resembling them is born in the house. The family is happier because of the children. Because children are the fruit of happiness that wives and husbands love. God loved all mankind. He wanted to raise people from the dead and live with them. So, God came into the world in a human body and died as the price for their sins. That is Jesus. Now God lives with those who have saved him forever, and that person is the Holy Spirit.
. Sunlight and rain fall from the sky. On the earth, it receives sunlight and rain as the sky sends it down. Among the things that illuminate every day are the sun, which gives light by day, and the moon and stars, which illuminate the darkness at night. Sunlight is the beginning of all light. The sun emits its own light. It also gives its light to other stars. However, neither the moon nor the stars emit their own light. It can reflect light only by receiving light from the sun every day. The sunlight is dazzling in brightness and gives light to all the stars. However, the stars are dim and illuminate only a certain part. God is like sunlight. All life and blessings come from God.
. Because God is spiritual, it cannot be seen with human eyes. There are many ways to describe who God is. Holy God, the ever-living God of life, the Almighty God, the perfect God. However, the most intimate and important thing with people is the God of love. In today's verse 16, it says, 'We have known and believed the love that God has for us, that God is love'. God Himself is Love. A spring is the source from which water begins and springs. The spring water that springs up fills and overflows and continues to flow down to a lower place to wet it. God is also the source of love. Everything in heaven and on earth lives by the love of God. God's love is infinite and unchanging. This love is Agape (Hell, ) love. God's love is the creative love that made things in heaven and on earth. This God does not forsake or depart from what He has made. In particular, when creating us humans, God gave us an image that resembled Himself. The presence of God in the human body gave him holiness, love, wholeness, and eternal life.
. There are many types of love that people make. There is a blood and fleshly love (Hel, Stolge) that parents give to their children. Also, there is love that men and women like, (Hell, Eros). And there is human love, such as friendship or sympathy for friends (Hel, Philia). All this love is important and necessary. But the beginning of all this love is God's love. Just as the moon and stars receive light from the sun every day to illuminate the dark night, all the love that people give must begin with the grace that God has for us. God's love does not change, but human love does change. I love when I like it, but leave when I hate it.
. The love of parents is great. Parents' love for their children must also come from faith in serving God. The love between a man and a woman in marriage must also be done in the faith to serve God. Friendships that make friends must also be done in faith to serve God. Love without God is incomplete. It changes according to the world situation. Without God, believing in one's heart and loving others, then abandoning him and betraying him. He believed in and loved another person, and then lost his heart and is sad. God's love for us This is the first love. We must love others with this love that comes from God. Hallelujah! Amen
. love is fun Love is good for everyone. However, until love is reaped as the fruit of happiness, there must be a life of planting and nurturing love. We should cover each other's faults with love. We must trust each other and wait for a bad situation that can be misunderstood with what people say. You have to put up with the difficulties of life and the disturbances of others who come because you love them. If you truly love him, you will overcome all these pains for him. God has loved humans since the first creation. He blessed people, set them free, and made them happy to live with God forever.
. If you live only in the love of God, you are happy. none of them are lacking But man's love for God is not like that. They change in this way and that according to their own interests. But are you happy if you leave God and love other things? no. It is deceiving. Adam believed the words of the devil and ate the fruit of the forbidden fruit rather than the words of God. Since then, humans have been unhappy. lost his life I am afraid of being a sinner and being punished for my sins. It is shameful to live by defiling oneself with sin. There is an impenetrable sin barrier between God and humans. Life without God has no hope. There is neither joy nor pleasure in living. I worry about living day by day, weighed down by the problems caused by sin.
. The day-to-day lives of everyday life are heavy burdens that I cannot bear. Therefore, the body and mind that could not bear it became ill and suffered from sorrow and pain. But God loved these sinful people who left because God hated them. God loves this enemy who has repaid God's love with evil. So, Jesus is the love of God that was revealed to save mankind from dying in sin. The love that causes the Son of God to die for our sins, this is redemptive love. It is the love that kills the Son of God and raises us from the dead instead. Jesus' death on the cross is the life that saves us from death. The blood of Jesus shed on the cross purifies our hearts that have been polluted by sin. Heals all diseases that come from sin. Hallelujah!
. Those who believe in Jesus and have their sins forgiven know the love of God the Father. Those whose unclean heart and diseased body have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus know the love of the Lord who shed His blood for me on the cross. Let's all sing verses 3 and 4 of hymn 196, 'Jesus who saved me'
3. The Lord died for our sins by the shedding of blood.
Spread the love that you have only in front of all the people.
4. I can't forget the love of the Lord Jesus, I always cry
Wherever I go in this world, I only think of my Lord.
Who Loves God? He is someone who knows the heart of God the Father who made his son Jesus die for a sinner like me. Is there anyone who cannot forgive in front of this cross love? Who can't love? I love everyone in the world when I think of Jesus who died on the cross for those who were suffering from sin. how do you love I love you by making me believe in Jesus who died on the cross. Just as Jesus visited and cared for the sick and poor, those who received the love of Jesus live the same way and rejoice and give thanks every day. Hallelujah!
. The difference between death and life is what can be done and what cannot be done together. As long as you are alive, you can love others and live life with them. But when you die, your life changes. The reason that man sinned and died was that he could not live with the God who made him. Just as the dead cannot receive the love of the living, so those who are blocked by God and sin cannot receive the love and grace that God gives them. God created the heavens and the earth and blessed them. Because God loved everything he made, God lives in them. One of the great graces and blessings that those who believe in Jesus receive from God is the blessing of Immanuel that God is with.
. Because God is love, He is always with us, guiding us and caring for us throughout our lives. My physical parents gave birth to me and raised me, but they stay with me until I become an adult. Husband, wife, and children live together and love each other, but that love also leads their own lives, so when they die, they leave and the paths they go along are different. But God made man. No man can come into my life, but God does come into my life. God is in my heart and in my life through the Holy Spirit, helping me in my life.
. A person without God has two fears in his heart. One is the fear that is oppressed and uneasy because of sin. Another is the fear that comes from my lack of self compared to the reality of human life. However, when the Holy Spirit of God comes into the hearts of those who believe in Jesus, this fear goes away. As the grace of Jesus, who died as the price for human sin, takes away sin, fear also disappears. As the love of God overflows with joy in the heart, the hatred of people disappears. God is omnipotent. The Spirit of God gives me the power to do anything in me. so bold No matter who you meet and what you do, people are not afraid or afraid. When faced with a crisis or doing something, it reminds you of what to do and gives you what to say and what to say. This is the blessing of Immanuel, who lives with God and I, and this is the perfect life that God's love has created in me. Here is an episode related to today's Word.
. Love in the world is not perfect, so they leave people behind. But God's love for us is perfect love. In any case, the God of love who has come to us through the Holy Spirit does not leave us nor forsake us. As long as God is in my life, I have no fear at all. Because God is the shepherd and guides and takes care of me, I am lacking in every aspect. Why? It is because of the perfect love of God that has been accomplished in me. In today's Word verses 18 and 19, God speaks. 'There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, for fear has its punishment. He who fears is not perfected in love. We love because he first loved us'. Amen Hallelujah!