> Measuring the Unmeasurable Love of God
> 1 John 4:7-21
> Main Point: God’s perfect love begins in Himself, is demonstrated most clearly in the Gospel, and finds it perfection (completion) in our loving one another.
> God is the Source of Love itself.
> v. 1   “Love is from God.”
> v. 16 “God is Love.”
> God’s Perfect Love is most clearly demonstrated in the Gospel.
> v. 9   “In this the love of God was manifested…that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.”
> v. 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.”
> v. 14 “And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.”
> God’s Love is not perfected (completed) unless and until we love one another.
> v. 7   “Beloved, let us love one another.”
> v. 19 “We love, because He first loved us.”
> v. 20 “If anyone says, ‘I love God’ and yet hate his brother, he is a liar.”
> v. 21 “And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.”
> 1 John 3:17, “But whoever has the world’s goods, and beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?”
> 1 John 4:12, “No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected (completed) in us.”