{"id":28680,"date":"2023-11-05T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/1-john-4_1-6-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T19:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T02:39:33","slug":"1-john-4_7-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/1-john-4_7-12\/","title":{"rendered":"How God Shows His Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 John 4:7-12<\/strong>\u00a0 (CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 1 John\u00a04:7-12.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

1 John\u00a04:7-12 (NIV)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 7-12:\u00a0 This is one of my favourite passages in 1 John, so much so that when Sharleen and I got married this was the passage we chose to be read at our wedding.\u00a0 This passage is not just beautifully written; more importantly, it is one of the best summaries you will find in the Bible of what Christianity is all about, teaching us that:<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0God\u2019s very nature is love (v8 \u2013 \u201cGod is love\u201d).\u00a0 To know God is to live a life of love (v7).<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0It wasn\u2019t that we loved God, but that God loved us, showing His love by sending Jesus Christ as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (v9-10).<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0Having received God\u2019s love, we are now called to love one another (v11).\u00a0 Just as a cross consists of a vertical bar and horizontal bar, true Christianity is when a vertical love between you and God connects with a horizontal love between you and others.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0Though God is invisible, as a church we experience God and His love when we love one another (v12).<\/p>\n

I encourage you to store up this passage in your heart. Try memorizing this passage until you can recite it from memory.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be blessed when you do.<\/p>\n

Father, thank You for Your amazing love, displayed when You sent Jesus Christ for us.\u00a0 Since You loved us, may we also love one another.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2021 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 1 John\u00a04:7-12.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

1 John\u00a04:7-12 (NIV)\u00a0
\n7\u00a0\u00a0Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.\u00a0
\n8\u00a0\u00a0Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.\u00a0
\n9\u00a0\u00a0This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.\u00a0
\n10\u00a0\u00a0This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.\u00a0
\n11\u00a0\u00a0Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.\u00a0
\n12\u00a0\u00a0No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
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\nOn verses 7-12:\u00a0 This is one of my favourite passages in 1 John, so much so that when Sharleen and I got married this was the passage we chose to be read at our wedding.\u00a0 This passage is not just beautifully written; more importantly, it is one of the best summaries you will find in the Bible of what Christianity is all about, teaching us that:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28683,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28680\/revisions\/28683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}