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1 JOHN 4:10 hvgaph,kamen {B}
As concerns the weight of external evidence, the two readings are more
or less equally supported. From a transcriptional point of view,
scribes would be likely to assimi...
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Verse 10. _NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD_] And that he was thereby induced to
give his Son _to be a propitiation for our sins_. No: we were enemies
to God, and yet Christ died for our ungodly souls. (See Roma...
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HEREIN IS LOVE - In this great gift is the highest expression of love,
as if it had done all that it can do.
NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD - Not that we were in such a state that we might
suppose he would mak...
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V. HEREBY WE KNOW
Chapter S 3:19-5:13
_ 1. Hereby we know that we are of the truth (1 John 3:19)_
2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God (1 John 4:1)
3. Hereby know we the Spirit of truth and of error...
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John returns to the theme of 1 John 3:14 ff., be cause if the Church
is the home of truth, still more is it the home of love. The evidence
for our Divine sonship is that the love manifested by God in...
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THE PERILS OF THE SURGING LIFE OF THE SPIRIT (1 John 3:24 B- 1 John
4:1)
_ 4:1 This is how we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he
gave to us. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but t...
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Beloved, let us love one another, because love has its source in God,
and everyone who loves has God as the source of his birth and knows
God. He who does not love has not come to know God. In this Go...
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HEREIN. In (App-104.) this.
PROPITIATION. Greek. _hilasmos._ Only here and 1 John 2:2. Compare
Romans 3:25.
FOR. concerning. App-104.
SINS. App-128....
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1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. God is Love
There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point
onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of
summary (1 John 5:13-21). T...
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_Herein is love_ -Herein" again refers to what follows: Love in Its
full perfection is seen, not in man's love to God, but in His to man,
which reached a climax in His sending His Son to save us from...
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Love is the Mark of the Children of the God who is Love
7. _Beloved, let us love one another_ See on 1 John 3:2. The
transition seems abrupt, as if the Apostle had summarily dismissed an
unwelcome sub...
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10. For ἠγαπήσαμεν ([728]3[729]) we should perhaps read
ἠγαπήκαμεν ([730]): [731]1 has the impossible
ἠγάπησεν.
[728] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery
of S. Catherine on...
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1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. GOD IS LOVE
There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point
onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of
summary (1 John 5:13-21). Th...
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7–21. LOVE IS THE MARK OF THE CHILDREN OF THE GOD WHO IS LOVE...
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ΆΓΆΠΗ (G26) любовь; здесь: качество
истинной любви. Подлинная любовь
самоотверженна (Brooke). О значении любви
_см._ DLNT, 694-700. ΉΓΑΠΉΚΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_
ΆΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить. Использование p...
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DISCOURSE: 2455
THE LOVE OF GOD IN GIVING HIS SON FOR US
1 John 4:9. _In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because
that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live...
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BUT THAT HE LOVED US,— St. John's meaning is, that God loved us for
it. See 1 John 4:19. Men are generally very ready to love those by
whom they are first loved: now, such was the astonishing love of...
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HEREBY WE KNOW
PART IV
1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 5:1-21
GOD IS LOVE
Divine Sonship Tested By The Inter-Relationship Of:
1.
Love
2.
Faith
3.
Righteousness
CHAPTER XII
_THE SOURCE OF LOVE_...
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Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent
his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
HEREIN IS LOVE - love in the abstract, in its highest ideal, is
herein. The love...
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VERSE 10. HEREIN IS LOVE.
The highest and grandest exhibition of love ever known, or that can be
known in the universe, God manifested to man. While man loved not
while man was an enemy to God God sen...
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3 The spirit of antichrist is the spirit of the world. It does not
want the Christ of the Scriptures, but prefers some substitute more
suited to its taste. This spirit has come to pervade, not only th...
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FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD IN LOVE
1. Try the spirits] RV 'Prove the spirits.' The verb is used of
testing metals.
2, 3. See on 2 John 1:7....
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THE PERFECT LOVE THE SUREST TEST (1 John 4:7).
(_a_)
_Fraternal love the necessary product of the true knowledge of God,
because God is love_ (1 John 4:7).
(_b_)
_The grand recent historical exhibi...
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The Blessedness of Love. “Beloved, let us love one another, because
love is of God, and every one that loveth of God hath been begotten
and is getting to know God. He that loveth not did not get to kn...
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The love which proves us children of God is not native to our hearts.
It is inspired by the amazing love of God manifested in the
Incarnation the infinite Sacrifice of His Son's life and death. Aug.:...
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THE TOKEN OF GOD'S LOVE
1 John 4:1
In those days the intense ferment of men's minds wrought many
delusions and heresies which were fraught with temptation to young
converts, and the Apostle wished to...
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Two closely related perils threaten our fellowship with God as love,
false prophets and the spirit which actuates them. Teaching is to be
tested by the indwelling Spirit. All who refuse to confess tha...
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GOD'S CHILDREN ARE KNOWN BY THEIR LOVE
God's children can be identified by their love for others, which was
first demonstrated by the Father. God was willing to give up His Son
for the good of those l...
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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone
that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. (8) He that loveth not
knoweth not God; for God is love. (9) In this was manifested the...
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10_Herein is love _He amplifies God’s love by another reason, that
he gave us his own Son at the time when we were enemies, as Paul
teaches us, in Romans 5:8; but he employs other words, that God,
ind...
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Now, to make use of this last proof, caution was required, for many
false prophets would assume, and even in the time of the apostle had
already assumed, the semblance of having received communication...
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HEREIN IS LOVE,.... The love of God, free love, love that cannot be
matched: herein it is manifested, as before; this is a clear evidence
of it, an undoubted proof, and puts it out of all question:
N...
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Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent
his Son _to be_ the propitiation for our sins.
Ver. 10. _Not that we loved, &c._] _Deus prior nos amavit, tantus,
tantum, et grat...
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_Herein is love_ Worthy of our highest admiration; _not that we loved
God_ First; for we were, on the contrary, in a state of enmity to him,
in which, if we had remained unsolicited and untouched by h...
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HEREIN IS LOVE, NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT HE LOVED US AND SENT
HIS SON TO BE THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS. THIS PARAGRAPH IS ONE OF
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND, AT THE SAME TIME, ONE OF THE MOST POW...
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The greatness of God's love:...
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But there must be guards as to the operation of the Spirit of God,
that is, the child of God must be guarded against all that would
imitate the operation of the Spirit. Satan is extremely cunning, and...
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7-13 The Spirit of God is the Spirit of love. He that does not love
the image of God in his people, has no saving knowledge of God. For it
is God's nature to be kind, and to give happiness. The law o...
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In comparison of this wonderful love of his, in sending his Son to be
a sacrifice for sins, our love to him is not worthy the name of love....
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1 John 4:10 In G1722 this G5129 is G2076 (G5748) love G26 not G3754
that G3756 we G2249 loved...
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‘In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.'
This is the final definition and revelation of love. It is not found
in any love t...
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1 John 4:9-11. God is love; and IN THIS WAS THE LOVE OF GOD MANIFESTED
IN US: it had its one supreme expression ‘in our case,' ‘in us' as
its sphere. This explains what follows, in the perfect. THAT G...
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The ruling idea of the third part is Faith in the Spirit's testimony
concerning the Son of God incarnate. The close of chap. 3 introduces
the theme by the first explicit mention of faith and the Spiri...
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NOT THAT
(ουχ οτ)--BUT THAT
(αλλ' οτ). Sharp contrast as in John 7:22; 2 Corinthians 7:9;
Philippians 4:17.WE LOVED
(ηγαπησαμεν). First aorist active indicative, but B reads
ηγαπηκαμεν (pe...
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PROPITIATION
(Greek, "hilasmos").
(_ See Scofield) - (1 John 2:2). _...
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1 John 4:7
Love is of God; God is Love.
I. "Love is of God." This does not mean merely that love comes from
God and has its source in God, that He is the Author or Creator of it.
All created things a...
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1 John 4:9. _In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because
that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live
through him._
There is love in our creation; there is lov...
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1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
the world._
If John had need to say that in the early mornin...
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1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirit
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
the world._
This is an unction of which there is great need i...
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1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit,_
A simpleton believes every word that he hears, but «the wise man's
eyes are in his head,» so he examines what he sees and hears, and
does not blindly...
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1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
the world._
It was so in John's day: it is so in these days....
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CONTENTS: Christians warned of false doctrines concerning Christ's
person and work. Tests of the true.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, anti-christ, John.
CONCLUSION: God's people must be ever c...
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1 John 4:1. _Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
they are of God._ Whether those teachers believe that Christ is come
in the flesh, which to the present hour the unbelieving jews den...
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THIS IS WHAT LOVE IS. "This is the example for us to follow. God did
not wait for us to love him first (1 John 4:19), but while we were
still sinners (Romans 5:8) God sent his Son to be the means (1 J...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 4:10 NOT THAT WE HAVE LOVED GOD. God’s love
sets the standard for the love Christians should show. PROPITIATION.
See note on 2:2....
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1 JOHN 4:7 The Assurance of God through the Love of God. John’s
teaching in these verses is like the apostle Paul’s “love
chapter,” 1 Corinthians 13:1.1 JOHN—NOTE ON
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Would someone please check the Psalm number in sentence formatted in
blue in the 3rd note of ver. 18.
CHAPTER 4
1. _Most dearly beloved_, &c. By the word _spirit_ he means
suggestion, inspiration, im...
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 John 4:7.—The previous verses are in some sense an “aside.”
The apostle now resumes his proper theme. His main truth is
this—Love is the mark of the children of God,...
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EXPOSITION
1 JOHN 4:1 - 1 JOHN 5:12
(2) _The source of son-ship. _Possession of the Spirit.
1 JOHN 4:1
Confession of the Incarnation is
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to I John chapter 4. As we go back to
verse 1 John 4:24 of chapter 3, the later portion, "Hereby we know
that He abides in us by the Spirit which He has given us." I kn...
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1 John 2:2; 1 John 3:1; 1 John 4:19; 1 John 4:8; 1 John 4:9;...
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Propitiation. See on 2 2....
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TESTING THE TRUE AND THE FALSE
1 John 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We have in our opening verses some important admonitions, and also
some important instructions.
1. IMPORTANT ADMONITIONS.
(1) "Believe...
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THE LOVE OF GOD CHAPTER
1 John 4:7
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We have always thought of the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians as
the Love Chapter. However, we have in the Word of God another chapter
whic...
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HEREIN IS LOVE; that is, the clearest, the fullest, the highest
expression of free and undeserved love that ever the world was
acquainted with.
Observe, That the wisdom and power of God did not act to...