Title: Those who live in love (1 John 4...
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Those who live in love (1 John 4:12-21) 09.03.
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The typhoon 'Pirapirun', which came one after another in torrential rain, died. 30 missing people and property damage of 14.4 billion won. 'Pirapirun' means 'God of rain' in Thai, and recorded the maximum wind speed of 58.3m at the moment in Heuksando, Jeollanam-do. Among the typhoons that have had an impact on the country so far, there is even controversy over the theory that it is the highest wind strength. On land, the car overturned and the roof was blown away, and on the sea, it was difficult to tell the difference between water bubbles and splashes, so you can feel the greatness of nature once again. It is God who rules this great nature. Another thing that God reigns in and reveals His power and greatness is love.
God's power includes power over nature, power over demons, power over death, and power over disease. If I add one more thing to this, God has the power to rule and rule over love.
Many lives have come and gone since the beginning of human history until today, but their achievements can be classified into three categories. In other words, those who left evil, those who left behind good ones, and those who were harmless and virtuous. Among them, there are people who left the worst and there are many who left the best, but I think the apostle John was the one who left the best example. Because the Apostle John was the one who taught love.
The world is changing. Every day, when you wake up, it's like meeting another world, and it's changing so rapidly. Just like a rugby ball, we live in an uncertain world where we don't know which direction it will run in, and we don't know which direction it will change.
But if you look closely, there are some things that don't change. Perhaps we will feel that the things that never change are coming closer and more certain to our eyes. Let's think about your song. One thing is clear, every song, any country song, the theme is love. There is no song that left love. Everyone is singing about love. Lost love, waiting love, longing love, and love are themes. It doesn't change. Because love is life. When we love each other, there is life in it. Even scary beasts must love once to produce life. And life grows in love. It's amazing to see a hedgehog love my cubs, but because of such love, life is born, nurtured, and nurtured. Therefore, in life we exist, that is love.
Man certainly lives by love. Even those who die are revived because of love. If you think about it, anything that happens without love leads to death. Only with love can we live, there is meaning with love, with love we gain the power to revive, and with love we can even heal diseases. However, when there is love, even death can be accepted very happily, and if you are moved by true love, death is not a problem at all. This is the power of love.
This is a true story that happened during the Vietnam War. The charter was unfavorable, so they retreated, and one of them was shot. I'm staggering now because I've been shot from behind. At that time, the platoon leader stopped me when a friend I loved said that he was going to rescue me by going through the middle of the rain. "I've already been shot and bled a lot, and that person can't live. Don't you have to go in there and you'll die too? Don't go." However, this young man raised his hand there and looked at his friend who was lying there. He couldn't stay still, so he went straight through the bullet and carried his friend out. The carried friend put it to his ear and said to the friend who was carrying him. He smiled and said, "I thought you would come. I was happy to have a friend like you. I have no free time." And then I died. When he came carrying a dead body and put it down, the platoon leader said, "Look! You're the one who's going to die, and you almost died while trying to save someone who's going to die anyway"
At that time, this friend said: "No. My friend got on my back and said, 'I thought you would come. I'm happy to have a friend like you'"
Everyone, I love you! If you are moved by a great love, you can overcome hardship, disease, or even death without any problems. After all, this is love. This precious love is the problem. The problem is the lack of love, the problem is love is sick, the problem is false love, and the problem is ignorance of love. It's not that I don't have love, it's that I don't know love. Another problem is that love doesn't work. Obviously being loved, but not communicating love. So love is cut off. The problem is because I don't believe it. He is clearly in love and being loved, but if he does not believe in love, he will not know love, if he does not know love, he has no emotion, and if he does not know love, he has no choice but to despair. Today's text continues with precious words that explain the original nature of love. That love has to be reborn. It means that love must be changed into the meaning of true love. It means that love must find its meaning again as true love.
True love is not our love for God, but God's love for us (10).
True love was shown in that God, who was angry for our sins, gave his only son as a sacrifice instead of punishing us. This is the pinnacle of love (10).
??When we love one another, God lives in us and strengthens the love of God in us (12) ??He sent the Holy Spirit to prove that we live with God and that God is with us (13) ?줚f anyone believes and confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God is in that love, and that love is living with God (15).
2. God's love can be felt with the skin and is perfect love
??God is love. Therefore, whoever lives in love lives with God, and God dwells in him (16).
??As we live with Christ, our love grows and becomes more perfect (17) so that on the day of judgment we will be able to face the face of the Lord with confidence and joy, without shame or embarrassment (17). )
??God's perfect love drives away all fear of God's judgment (8). Because God loved us, we also learned to love him (19).
1. If someone says 'I love God' with his mouth and continues to hate the brother of faith, he is a liar (20)
2. How can a person who does not love the brother before his eyes love the invisible God?(20)
3. God's command is 'He who loves God must love his brother' (21)
Most people say that they love to be loved, but that it is difficult to give. The reason is the lack of love. They start to fall in love, and soon they start complaining and dissatisfaction. That is the limit of love. If you have a lot, you can give, but if you don't have enough, you can't give. Love does not spring from within. There is a source. It is the Lord. ??1 John 4:8) God is love.????John 7:38) Whoever believes in me, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.??
When you fill an empty bucket with tap water, it fills up little by little from the bottom, but eventually overflows. If it overflows in me, I can give.
What is love?
It's sacrificing yourself to help someone else's real needs. Unconditional and one-sided sacrifice is not love. If my 6-year-old daughter gave me a 10 million won mink coat because she thought it was cute, even if it was a sacrifice, it's not really necessary.
There are two needs. There are real and factual needs. Jesus met our real needs first. ??John 3:16) For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.??
1. God's love
??God is the source of love.
It is said that these days, companies are facing a crisis of stopping production due to a material shortage. Love must be supplied like raw materials. (1 John 4:7,8) Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God, and whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God is the substance and source of love. Therefore, first receive the full supply of God's love.
??Who should I love?
In order to be a beautiful love no matter how you look at it, you must first know the object of love. All I need to do is to love what God, who is the body of love, loves. However, many Christians live the opposite way. Love what God hates and hate what God loves. Who does God love? You love people. Specifically, He loved sinners. ??John 3:16) For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.??
The world here is a world in which sinners who cannot but perish are inhabited. The Bible says, "There is none righteous, not even one" (Romans 3:10). We say we are righteous, but in reality we are all sinners. They were just declared righteous by faith.
"(Romans 5:1) Therefore, since we have been justified by faith" (Romans 3:24-36), being justified freely by the grace of God through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus... that he might justify him.??
The Lord loved sinners. He loved Peter, who betrayed him, and he loved Paul, the blasphemer, persecutor, and murderer. (1 Timothy 1:12-16) I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, for he has considered me faithful, and has entrusted me with the ministry. I did." Yes. You know, you can't do that.
??Luke 23:34) Then Jesus said to them, ?쏤ather, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.??