Embracing Divine Love: Overcoming Fear Together

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God is love and the one who remains in Love Remains in God and God remains in him in this love is made complete with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment because as he is so also are we in this world there is no fear in love instead perfect love drives out fear because fear involves punishment so the one who fears is not complete in love. [00:03:56]

When we are remaining in love it means that we live a self-sacrificial unconditional love just like God demonstrated to us since God is love those who are believers are called to live in a state of love for others and this is to be demonstrated by how we interact with people. [00:07:00]

Love is made complete not in any one person but when we are working together and loving one another as I thought about it this week I it gave me hope it gave me hope because I don't know if I'm alone in this have you ever felt like maybe you're not as loving as you should be. [00:08:43]

The love one has for God has an effect on the future the confession of Jesus as Lord and the mutual abiding between God and the believer allows for God's love to have its full expression this is why we can have faith and we can stand with confidence that word confidence there it means to stand unashamed to stand without fear on the day of judgment. [00:11:14]

Perfect love drives out fear perfect love is God's love for us you see God did not withhold his love for us before we believed God did not wait until we are good enough and then send his son instead perfect love is that Jesus suffered and died while we were still Sinners. [00:13:24]

Love for God and fear of God cannot coexist Romans 8:15 says for you did not receive a spirit of Slavery to fall back into fear instead you're received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out ABA father you see love drives out fear because fear involves punishment. [00:16:28]

We love because he first loved us we do not have to create love for others we simply have to allow the love of God to flow through us so don't act like you need to be stingy with your love like you need to ration love like it'll run out we have to remember our love comes from God. [00:20:17]

We are connected to this never NeverEnding spring of life and love that is God because there's such a necessity of connection between love and God and love for God and love for fellow Believers John goes on to say this if anyone says I love God yet hates his brother or sister he is a liar. [00:23:44]

Loving others is the visible manifestation of loving the Unseen God it's easy for us to say I love God who is not seen evidence of that is how do we love each other how do we love our fellow Believers here in first John we see that Jesus gives this command in verse the Jesus gives the command in verse 21. [00:28:57]

True Faith leads to love for God and others and true love results in obedience P are John's final words on the subject of love he's wrapping this up and he wants us to understand that true Faith always leads to love for God and others when we truly place our faith in Christ we will love God and love people. [00:32:43]

God's commands are not burdensome it says because loving God and loving others flows from God the heavy burdens that we carry they are selfish and pride and anger Envy greed and hate those are the heavy burdens that come from our flesh but Jesus says in in Matthew 11 come to me all of you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. [00:36:13]

Love is what unifies us in a world that is divided in a world that is constantly trying to separate we can be unified by the Conquering Love Of Christ do you see that if not then maybe you're seeing love as a burden instead of as a key love frees you from the chains of this world. [00:39:48]

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