8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:7-12
These are some of the most loaded verses in all of scripture. I love this passage. It really sums up everything really well. God is love, whoever has been born again also loves, therefore let us love one another.
It is through loving one another that the love of God is perfected in us. This is the evidence if one is really saved or not. God abides in love, and therefore abides in us when we love. It is very simple yet one of the most difficult areas for a lot of the church to grasp for some reason. Why is there so much slander, gossip, back stabbing, and hypocrisy? Why do Christians not just simply love one another as they are commanded? God initiated love period. We did not. God sent His Son as a propitiation for our sins. Only through true repentance and reconciliation can we love God and our brother. Love does not just happen, at least the kind of love that is lasting, enduring, sincere, and eternal. We need a revolution of this Kind of Love in the church today. The kind of love that heals broken relationships, that forgives past hurts, that restores marriages, that considers another better than self. By this kind of love will the world see that God is real and that God is love. The stakes are high friends, we are responsible for bearing fruit through loving God and loving one another.
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