Where are we there? Our Father, help us to realise tonight, even as evangelical Christians, that without works faith is dead. Now turn with me for a moment to 1 Corinthians chapter 13, to the great passage on love and its definition. How can we say the love of God abides in us? The apostle Paul used the word love nine times in this short chapter and colorfully and powerfully illustrated what it is and is not. Godly love is the greatest gift God can impart to mankind and the greatest we can return to Him and share with others. This is serious stuff. He uses it ninety-nine times out of the two hundred and forty-eight times that it appears in the New Testament (also ten times in 1 John). The Greek word believe here is the word (G1400) Pist-yoo'-o. The Emperor Hadrian of Rome, in the early second century, called a man called Aristides to the palace to have him describe what Christians really were like. To God, in His holy eyes, hate is the moral equivalent of the murderous act, hate is the embryo of murder. … They don't consider themselves brothers in the usual sense, but brothers instead through the Holy Spirit of God'. How many of us tonight can say, including me: 'Lord, let me live from day to day In the Book of Revelation, what do they tell us happened to him because of his loyalty to Jesus? - because lust is the seed of adultery, and hate and anger are the seed of murder. Not a popular verse today! He was not only of the wicked one, but he practised wickedness because his own works were evil and his brother's righteous. w light and darkness (1 Jn. In which two chapters is love mentioned the same number of times? He talks later on in John 13, as He lays aside His towel to wash the disciples' feet, in verses 37 to 38 He talks again about laying down His life, and them laying down their lives for each other. He says: 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?' 1 John 4:19 - We love him, because he first loved us. The simple answer is that he was hostile towards Abel for no other reason than that Abel was right with God and Cain was not. The Holy Spirit Pt5: The Holy Spirit In The Old Testament, The Holy Spirit Pt4: The Person Of The Holy Spirit. Let me live for others, Demonstrating brotherly love proves the presence of eternal life. The Greek god 'Eros' takes a personification of this concept, and 'Aphrodite' and many other pagan gods were personifications of this fleshly, lustful love. He says in verse 18: 'If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. He gives us another illustration in contrast to that of Cain, and it is our blessed Lord Jesus. Also, the fact that 1 Corinthians 13 uses charity 9 times connects it … Let me read it in a slightly different translation just to bring it home, what is meant here, verse 4, and you can correspond in your own translation where you are: 'Love is patient, love is kind. David Jackman in his commentary, and with this I finish, speaks of one of the loveliest Christians he ever met, Dr Kenneth Moynihan was his name, and for years he was a missionary doctor in Rwanda. I think love, as a concept and indeed as a word, is one that, perhaps, has been more abused and misused than any other in our language, or indeed any world language - especially over the last decade. He gives us the illustration par excellence: Christ is the only source of true agape love, John is saying, and Calvary is the only measure and standard of that love. Early Christians received the second epistle of John from the aged apostle in the latter quarter of the first century. What John is saying here is that that's not man's chief problem - ignorance - man's chief problem is rebellion and sinfulness in their heart towards God, This is serious stuff. It's probably the most popular doctrinal belief of the whole lot. John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Then there is the Greek word 'filio' which is found in the New Testament, but it describes an affectionate love that could be among friends and brothers. The message of John is: if Jesus loved you enough to die for you, you ought to love your brothers enough to live for them! These materials may not, in any manner, be sold or used to solicit 'donations' from others, nor may they be included in anything you intend to copyright, sell, or offer for a fee. Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous'. Would you put your life on the line for someone else? 1 John Cross Reference Questions. Jesus said it twice. 1. He says: 'Well, if you go up that road and turn right, and then turn left again, come to a roundabout, go straight ahead...that's not where it is'. We looked at this in more detail last week, but what John is saying is that this proved that Cain was not of God, this characteristic of lack of love. That I may live like Thee'. The deacon said: 'Did the doctor really say that I was going to die?'. It is primarily the element of self-sacrifice, that He is dying there for us, not for Himself, for us, for the undeserving, for the iniquitous, the transgressors, the sinful, those totally unworthy. Not only are you still dead if you hate your brother, but you're a murderer like Cain, John says. You need to take that problem to God, because that thing, if it's habitual, if it's a lifestyle with that person, could be telling you that you're out of fellowship with God. This copyright is exercised to keep these materials freely available to all. Lord, it's not easy, we've all wronged others and there's many a time we've been wronged and we've felt it very keenly. www.preachtheword.com. Our verses for consideration are verses 10 through to 18, so let us begin at verse 10 under this title 'Brotherly Love': "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. John the Baptist son of Zechariah, figures prominently in the beginning of each of the four Gospels (Matthew 3:1). 'David Legge is kind, he does not envy, he does not boast, he is not proud' - but this is in effect what John is saying. Subscribe to our email updates to receive bi-monthly notifications of new content. You're persecuting Christ! I’ll show you how to do the research. Patience is love enduring in every trial and test. In fact, we sometimes speak of the "action model" of agape love. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. So what John is saying to us again is that here is a test of whether you're a child of God: do you have this love toward your brothers and sisters? 1 John 4:18 - There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. The first thing he gives us is the fact that he is of that wicked one, his parentage. How many times is the word love used in 1 John 5? How many times does the concept of love appear?, probably more than those 697. The word agape received a broader usage under later Christian writers as the word that specifically denoted Christian love or charity (1 Corinthians 13:1–8), or even God himself. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. You hear people talking today about 'Falling in and out of love' - I don't believe you do either of those two things. If He is in us, He will manifest the love of God. It is voluntarily - He lays His life down, John says, voluntarily. Now that is cold language, I believe, which means they aren't getting out of that relationship what they feel is their right. Remember, that's who John is writing to. The love of God is epitomised in Christ, perfected in Christ, and the greatest standard and expression and measure of that love is Calvary. What you are describing is that those things make you feel good, you get a measure of self-gratification tucking into a bar of Cadbury's, or spending your husband's money - it feels good! In which chapter is love mentioned the most times? 'Jesus is patient, Jesus is kind. It's something that blesses you, it's something that gives you a buzz, gives you a worthwhile feeling, a sense of gaining and getting - and certainly any concept of self-sacrifice is foreign to the modern understanding of love. This is my own personal favorite of all the sixty-six books of the Bible. Romans 5 and verse 8: 'God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us'. Sure, it's probably the most popular doctrinal belief of the whole lot. 2 John 1:1 The elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth--and not I alone, but also all who know the truth--3 John 1:2 Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, as your soul also prospers. Secondly, you have to have your eyes open to see the needs - and I think that's half the problem. A lack of brotherly love proves the absence of eternal life. First of all there is the doctrinal test, that we believe the historical gospel that was revealed at the beginning through the incarnation of our Lord Jesus, His death and resurrection, that we believe in the historical Christ and the historical authentic gospel. Would you put your life on the line for someone else? John is more intuitive, speaking as a bold witness. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Of course, last week we looked at John 8:44 that the devil was a thief and a murderer from the beginning, and here Cain is following in the footsteps of his spiritual father, committing murder. Now agape love is divine love, it is the love of God, it is what God is in His essence. January 2006 … Again the Emperor Julian the Apostate complained during his short reign from AD 361 to 363 that, I quote: 'The impious Galileans', another name for Christians, 'support not only their own poor, but ours as well!'. I don't mean everybody in the world, but is there a general principle, because of the life that you live and the stand that you take as one of Christ's children, it hates you - that's a sign that you've got God's life in you! Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me'. The apostle John was part of Jesus’ inner circle, one of the 12 disciples chosen by the Lord to walk and learn with Him during His time on earth. This is the brotherly love … John Mark, traditionally the author of the Gospel of Mark. Not only do its style, vocabulary, and themes strongly mirror the Gospel of John, but we also know 1 John is written by an eyewitness of Christ’s ministry (1 John 1:1-3). What we could do, if you keep your Bible open at this passage, 1 Corinthians 13, you could substitute - and I've done this with you before - the word 'love' for 'Christ' or 'Jesus'. Now I know, and I agree to differ with some who see this portion of Scripture outlining primarily the two natures of the Christian; but I believe that the sentiments here are too strong, because John, time after time after time, is telling us that these people who have an absence of these characteristics are proving that they do not have the life of God in them - and your old nature can never have the life of God in it. You see, this is not just the mark of one who is of the devil, to hate believers and to slay and murder believers, but it's the mark of this whole unbelieving world. Since the Bible tells us that God Himself is love (), it is fitting that this beautiful description of love should be well-known.. 'Murder!'. Serious stuff. Now that is not the Bible's definition of love. Gentleness is love yielding to all that is not sin, Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. Faith is love's eyes opened, the living Christ to see, But just as we were looking at last week, John is talking about those who commit sin and the word is 'a continuous habitual lifestyle of sin', and if you have a continual habitual grudge against some brother or sister in Christ, John says you need to beware. e. Expressions such as eternal life, a new commandment, abide in Christ, walketh in darkness, that your joy may be full. That's the explanation for why he behaved in this way, why there was a lack of love. In verse 11 John reminds them of a command he says they had from the beginning: 'This is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another'. A brother comes into the meeting, and he's in great need, and somebody pats him on the back and says: 'We'll pray for you brother, the Lord bless you, safe home'. 2 John 1:7-9 KJV (7) For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. In this same epistle in chapter 2 and verse 11 he's already stated that not only are we dead, but we're in the dark: 'He that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes'. We have an obligation to lay down our lives for the brothers, to meet known needs of our brothers, and thirdly and finally: we are to love in action rather than in words alone, verse 18, that's a sure sign that we are the children of God - without it we cannot be. Meekness, love not fighting, but bowed at Calvary. If we lived like that today, our Christianity, just like the early church, would be infectious, it would be contagious, it would explode, it would mushroom. Now right away we see that love is more than an airy fairy feeling, it is more an act of our will rather than a feeling. He wasn't a child of God, he was a child of the devil! That's your problem, isn't it? Thirdly, you have to have a willingness, once you see the needs and have the means to meet them, to do the deed and help that person. But the Bible is all about Love the very and true meaning in the Bible is about Love. The negative repetition oude en, prorsus nihil, not even one thing (stronger than ouden nihil), excludes every form of dualism (against the Gnostics), and makes the panta absolutely unlimited. You can almost see it as well in the way that people talk about relationships. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. We're all for free grace, grace is free! You can know that you have eternal life, but it's hard to know as you observe the life of people who profess Christianity whether or not they really love their brothers and sisters. Sometimes we have to get what a thing is not to understand a little bit more about what it is. That's what the Lord said to the Pharisees: 'Ye are of your father, the devil; and the works of your father ye will do'. Tigger313tig. George Harrison mentioned this in his 1981 song "All Those Years Ago" with the line, "But you point the way to the truth when you say 'All you need is love.'" Find out more about us, ourministry and how to use our site, David Legge ministers in theUnited Kingdom and Ireland, Send us an email or leave a comment via our Guestbook, I think love, as a concept and indeed as a word, is one that, perhaps, has been more abused and misused than any other in our language - especially over the last decade. When He sees lust, He cries 'Adultery!' So we begin in chapter 1 and chapter 2 of this book with several core cardinal themes that John's going to take right throughout this book as threads, but each time he revisits it in this spiral he adds another aspect of truth to it or another application to it. What other books of the Bible did he pen? - are you persecuting a child of God? And wherefore slew he him? 8. Rather you should have in your life the attributes of Christ: when He was reviled, He reviled not again. We've seen that there are three tests within this book whereby we can know that we are the children of God, we can have assurance. 1 John 3:18 Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth. Love one another! He does not envy, He does not boast, He is never proud. The word "believe" appears in the Book of John 43 times: However, believing isn't enough. That believers could be envious and jealous of one another?' 1. The last time we visited this theme was in chapter 2 verses 7 to 17, we're not going to look at those tonight, but it would be good for you to recap at your own leisure and cover that again, what we have already studied in those verses. Here's what he says: a true child of God will display the love of Christ first of all, verse 16, in laying down their lives for the brethren. Love never fails'. And wherefore slew he him? That fact is not as difficult to discern as this love in the life of some people who call themselves Christians. B. All my nature refine, First of all, let me point out from the beginning of verse 14 that you can know, and that puts the lie to those who say you can't really know and be sure of your salvation. Are we all mouth, all talkie-talkie and very little walkie-walkie? What is it? Does the world hate you? Ultimately what it was was rebellion towards God, God wanted an offering and Abel came God's way with a little slain lamb, and Cain came his own way with an offering from the fruit of the ground because he was a farmer. He referred to himself as "the elder" and is certainly the last apostle living at the time. There are some names that are always popular, John being one of them. Where in the bible does it mention that Jesus was a 'man of color'. 1:5) w love and hate (1 Jn. John 13:23 One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. button. So we pray tonight that folk in this gathering, that all of us, will be done with grudges, will be done with keeping scores and records of wrongs. I'm thinking of the Irish man, and somebody from England stops him at the lights, and says 'Can you tell me the way to Belfast?'. A second application of how we can know we are truly a child of God is found in verse 14, the first part of it: 'We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren' - you love your brothers and your sisters in Christ. Friends, that's the way we behave, isn't it, sometimes, towards our brethren? John 15:13 - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. I know they're portrayed as being doctrinal disputes, but most of the time they're just personality struggles fuelled by jealousy, fuelled by envy - and they're singing praise, one on one side of the church and one on the other, and they're sworn enemies as they praise to God with their tongues! The word "love" appears 310 times in the King James Bible, 348 times in the New American Standard Bible, 551 times in the New International Version and 538 times in the New Revised Standard Version. Goodness is love in actions that flow from Christ within. Then there are others who see love as agreeing with everyone, being cordial, harmonious, even with others whose cultures and beliefs perhaps don't agree with yours, but yet you accept them and live and let live - they understand that to be love. Can I ask you tonight: do you know many people who would put their lives on the line for you? Who here tonight doesn't subscribe to the precept that we have to love one another? People are oblivious to needs that may be around them. 121 terms. Word Counts: How Many Times Does a Word Appear in the Bible? Because of this divine love, God sent his only Son into the world so that by Christ’s death for sin (1 Corinthians 15:3; 1 Peter 2:24; 3:18) all those who believe might have eternal life (John 3:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:16; 1 John 3:1; Titus 3:4). He didn't lay aside His attributes, but He thought it not something to be grasped at, and relinquished them voluntarily as He came to earth to live as a man - why? This, John says, is the supreme definition and illustration of love, and that's the love that we ought to show to one another. Two Christians were at an evangelism conference on one occasion. If you don't, or if you hate your brother, it's a sure sign that you lack eternal life. After he died a poem of his was published, and it took the ninefold fruit of the Spirit from the book of Galatians that I mentioned to you at the beginning, and made them a kind of character study of the Lord Jesus - because that's what they are, they're the characteristics of the Lord Jesus Christ within the Christian. It is not something that revolves around self or self-gratification, but at the very centre - and, ironically we could say, at the crux ('crux' is the Latin word for 'cross', of course) - there is self-sacrifice as the foundation of everything that can be described as love. Nobody would fall out with you over that one! The supreme act of love, John says in John 15:13, 'Greater love hath no man than this, but that a man lays down his life for his friends'. The true Christian, this is John's point, at that point would be content to suffer and even die rather than cause suffering or pain or death to his brethren. John, the Apostle 2. (8) Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Jesus said it twice. Many times people use words in ways that are not technically correct, and strict definitions of words are not always honored The distinctions between the different kinds of love do not completely hold up within the New Testament itself. The Structure of 1 John: John does not structure his letter in a logical, closely reasoned style, as Paul often does. THIS SET IS OFTEN IN FOLDERS WITH... Cross References - 1 John . Now that word 'slew' in verse 12 literally could be translated 'to butcher' - 'Do not be like Cain, who was of that wicked one, who butchered or slaughtered' - it literally means 'slaughtered by smashing his throat'. - is it not? That's what this epistle is all about, and here he is repeating it again: 'Hereby we can know that we have this eternal life'. Here Paul outlines for us what this agape love really is, and he defines it, and that's the word for love that he uses here. Matthew Henry noted well in his commentary on this verse: 'The great serpent himself reigns as the god of this world. Answer (1 of 7): Love may not be the most used word in the Bible. Sadly, love has come to be described in awful terms, some of the most hateful and perverse practices that are known to man today are now being described as 'love'. Give us that love that is nothing but the love of Jesus, that when He is hated He says 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do'. This does not include hosting or broadcasting the materials on another website, however linking to the resources on preachtheword.com is permitted. They said: 'Dear brother, you're not going to go into eternity with this grudge in your heart, are you? The command "love one another" appears eleven times in the Bible, all in the New Testament. I know it's free, but not at any price - forgive your brother, or you'll not be forgiven of God. There are many passages that I could have based this talk on, but I chose 1 John 4:7-11. Love, for many, has become lustfulness. But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? He learned about godly love from God, who Himself is love (1 John 4:8 1 John 4:8 He that loves not knows not God; for God is love. Twice in John 13:34 and once in John 13:35. This verb means “I believe.” It is one of the great words in John’s Gospel. The early church were renowned for their love. Jesus is not rude, He is not self-seeking, He is not easily angered', so on and so forth. For Christ is love in person, and love, Christ in the soul'. Oh, we skite over that one very quickly! This is the brotherly love … Remember Cain was the first baby ever born, and he becomes a murderer. Verse 16: 'Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he', the Lord Jesus Christ, 'laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren'. A sad fact is that conflicts and battles are what mark many an assembly of God's people in the 21st century. Let this my motto be: Here John is showing us, here is an illustration of the proof of the absence of this love, which proves the absence of this life of God. Have you ever scandalised? What this agape love is, and this agape love is the love of God that has been displayed and manifested for us in Christ, is the love that we ought to show to one another. Jesus says in Luke 6:32, “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Jesus said it three times. If this is something that you're holding onto, if it is a lifestyle of hate, you need to beware - why? This sermon was delivered at The Iron Hall Assembly in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Pastor David Legge. They said 'Aye, he did'. Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone'. If they see a stranger they take him home and are happy as though he were a real brother. He gives us several reasons how we can know whether or not we are truly a child of God. is the Greek word, 'on our behalf, in place of, as a substitute'. A lack of brotherly love proves an absence of eternal life, he gives us the illustration: Cain. His life, it was said, was filled with the fragrance of Christ. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. A lot of people don't really know what love is to define or to experience in their own lives and environment. The table below gives some word counts for four popular versions of the Bible. We don't talk about the big red thing that beats in our chest, we talk about the seat of our emotions. Yet this Gospel does not use the word pistis, faith. Now, probably none of us will ever be called to die for someone else, that's very rare these days - at least in Europe. Galatians 2:20, Paul says: 'I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me'. But if you love your brother, even imperfectly at times, it's a sign that you have the life of God in you - but let us all ask ourselves tonight: how much of that Christlike love is seen in me? The word for love that we find in John's first epistle, and indeed many times right throughout the New Testament is the Greek word 'agape'. AndrewBibleBee. Translation is a tricky thing. John wrote the Epistle in the later part of his life at Ephesus, where he spend most of his old age. Once in John 15:12 and once in John 15:17. But then there is the social test, and that is the one we're looking at tonight again, and that is that of love towards our brothers specifically in Christ - and our sisters of course - and indeed love that we are to show to all men. Now in ancient Greece, in biblical Greek and ancient Greek, there were three or perhaps four definitions for love. A loveless man, John is saying, is a lightless man - he can't see his way. Any exceptions to these conditions must be explicitly approved by Preach The Word. Last updated Jan 31 2010. 'David Legge is patient' - I'd have to stop right away! The number of times that love is mentioned in the Bible depends on the version of the Bible. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. All material by David Legge is copyrighted. But this word 'love' is found fifty times within 1 John, and it's remarkable when you consider that 1 John is only a book of five short chapters - but this theme of love is found fifty times right across those five chapters. The word for love that we find in John's first epistle, and indeed many times right throughout the New Testament is the Greek word 'agape'. Give us that spirit we pray, and none other, for His name's sake we ask it, Amen. How often does it happen? Now don't shoot me at the door, I'm only the messenger, this is God's word, take it or leave it! Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. Of all the “loves” mentioned in the New Testament, love for the brethren is one of the most prominent (see, for example, John 13:34-35; 15:12, 13, 17; Romans 13:8; 1 Peter 1:22; 2:17; 4:8; 1 John 2-4). They never fail to help widows, they save orphans from those who would hurt them. 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