{"id":8872,"date":"2020-04-20T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2020-04-20T23:28:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T06:28:54","slug":"1john4_7-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/1john4_7-12\/","title":{"rendered":"How God Shows His Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>1 John 4:7-12\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+John+4%3A7-12&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8873 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200421.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200421.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200421-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200421-450x225.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s passage is 1 John 4:7-12.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>1 John 4:7-12 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<sup>7\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.<br \/>\n<sup>8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.<br \/>\n<sup>9\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.<br \/>\n<sup>10\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.<br \/>\n<sup>11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.<br \/>\n<sup>12\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<p>On verses 7-12:\u00a0 This is my favourite passage 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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God\u2019s very nature is love (v8 \u2013 \u201cGod is love\u201d).\u00a0 To know God is to live a life of love (v7).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How it wasn\u2019t that we loved God, but that God loved us, showing it by sending Jesus Christ as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (v9-10).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How having received God\u2019s love, we are now called to love one another (v11).\u00a0 Like a cross, true Christianity is when a vertical love between you and God connects with a horizontal love between you and others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Though God is invisible, as a church we experience God and His love when we love one another (v12).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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<p><em>Heavenly 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<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s passage is 1 John 4:7-12.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n<p>1 John 4:7-12 (NIV)\u00a0<br \/>\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.<br \/>\n8\u00a0\u00a0Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.<br \/>\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&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>On verses 7-12:\u00a0 This is my favourite passage 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:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8872","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\/8872","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=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8903,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions\/8903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}