121 terms. In days when many are disillusioned and seeking for more, through the ministry of David Legge we seek to provide Bible-based teaching and preaching which will lead you into a deeper relationship with God. Again we could remind ourselves of what John said in chapter 2 and verse 6: 'We ought to walk even as he walked', in every aspect, not least showing that great agape love in our lives. Jesus said it three times. Do we express sincerity through practicality? is the Greek word, 'on our behalf, in place of, as a substitute'. 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! 5. And wherefore slew he him? A loveless man, John is saying, is a lightless man - he can't see his way. Your just on more example of someone who is spiritually illiterate, who trys to condemn Christians because you can't get your own life in order.You talk about love when its you that is full of hatred and want to spread hatred upon others as well, Your no less than a hypocrite.You might like to read Isa. [829] John 1:3, with a probable allusion to Gen. 1:3, "God said," as en arche refers to bereshith, Gen. 1:1. Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous'. 1 John Cross Reference Questions. We see that here in this verse, if you look at it again, verse 15, he changes from talking about 'brethren' that he talked about in verse 14 in the plural to talking about the singular 'brother' in verse 15. The example he gives us is Cain. It is voluntarily - He lays His life down, John says, voluntarily. Do you have brotherly love? 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. And 1 John has been given to us to help encourage us to, in fact, love. 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'. Five times altogether, according to the New King James version: How many times does the word love appear in the standard New International Version Bible? How many times is the Father mentioned in John? 1. 'Murder!'. The Greek word that refers to the love of God, one of the kinds of love we are to have for people, is agape. The Socinian interpretation, which confines it to the moral creation, is grammatically impossible. The expression "God is love" (ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν) occurs twice in the New Testament: 1 John 4:8,16. Agape is the very nature of God, for God is love (1 John 4:7-12, 16). Now the false teachers in John's day were advocating that the problem for all mankind is ignorance, they need to learn more, they need to get a special knowledge from God. Love one another! You don't have to commit the act to have a murderous heart, because God is not as much concerned with the outward appearance as He is with the heart. One we know today is that of 'eros' describing sexual love and physical love, and we get the word 'erotic' from it. 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. Early Christians received the second epistle of John from the aged apostle in the latter quarter of the first century. AndrewBibleBee. He does not envy, He does not boast, He is never proud. John 13:1 It was just before the Passover Festival. John is saying that where there is no love there is no life. How much does this agape love impact on our personal lives, in our own backyard, when our own back door is closed? Sometimes we have to get what a thing is not to understand a little bit more about what it is. John is likening it to murder, to butchery, to slaughter. 'He was of that wicked one', at the beginning of verse 12 we see, so there are two things that he is citing to us as an explanation for this lack of brotherly love in Cain's experience. Then there are others who maybe wouldn't stretch their definition that far, but understand love as a sentimental sort of fluffy feeling that's akin to butterflies in the tummy - it's an emotion, purely, it is a tendency. The first thing he gives us is the fact that he is of that wicked one, his parentage. 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. You hear people talking today about 'Falling in and out of love' - I don't believe you do either of those two things. 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). God rejected Cain's offering and accepted Abel's - and out of envy and jealousy, because God never accepted Cain's way, he slew his brother. 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. Goodness is love in actions that flow from Christ within. Not only was there his parentage, but there were his practices. Wonder not then that the serpentine world hates and hisses at you who belong to that seed of the woman that is to bruise the serpent's head'. It's a test of fellowship, it's something that can give us assurance and confidence that we know God. How many times is the word love used in 1 John 5? Then we must move on quickly to the positive aspect of things that John deals with, because he says that demonstrating brotherly love proves the presence of eternal life, verses 16 to 18. That's your problem, isn't it? Who here tonight doesn't subscribe to the precept that we have to love one another? 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'. Friends, that's the way we behave, isn't it, sometimes, towards our brethren? Maybe it's not the man next door, maybe it's the man or the woman in the next pew. 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). The word "believe" appears in the Book of John 43 times: However, believing isn't enough. Would you put your life on the line for someone else? 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. The number of times that love is mentioned in the Bible depends on the version of the Bible. If you don't, or if you hate your brother, it's a sure sign that you lack eternal life. This is what he said, I quote: 'They love one another. That's often the case, but he was still not going to forgive his brother. 8. 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'. 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. And 'smiting' certainly appears more than once, but certainly not more than 700 =). Jesus said it three times. 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.'" 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. This does not include hosting or broadcasting the materials on another website, however linking to the resources on preachtheword.com is permitted. What other books of the Bible did he pen? 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. 1:5) w love and hate (1 Jn. If we're to demonstrate brotherly love that proves the presence of eternal life we need to lay down our lives, but we need to meet the known needs of our brothers. So this is the test that we're looking at tonight, the test of brotherly love. So let's look at the first aspect that John deals with in verses 10 to 15, and it's simply this: a lack of brotherly love proves an absence of eternal life. Both of these verbs are translated “I love.” The latter appears in John thirteen times (5:20; 11:3, 36; 12:25; 15:19; 16:27; 20:2; 21:15-17). For Christ is love in person, and love, Christ in the soul'. To God, in His holy eyes, hate is the moral equivalent of the murderous act, hate is the embryo of murder. If you go to Romans 16, you find that Priscilla and Aquila put their neck on the line for the apostle Paul, and he counted it as a great act of love and commends them for it. So we're going to find week after week that we're covering the same ground, but yet we'll have added to us each evening an extra truth or an embellishment of the original truth. Many commentators say that it is impossible adequately to outline John’s argument. My friend, there could be a hundred Christians that you know, and you love 99 of them, and there's just one that you hate - and John says if you hate that one you're in deep spiritual trouble! O Thou Saviour divine, - is it not? This is serious stuff. Where are we there? I believe this is seen often in how, sometimes, we casually use the word - even as Christians. John is saying the same: that if there is a similar lack of love, it's a sure sign that you do not have eternal life. Nobody would fall out with you over that one! He wasn't a child of God, he was a child of the devil! Even as a Christian...and it's a sure sign that you don't possess eternal life. 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? 'David Legge is patient' - I'd have to stop right away! How many times does the concept of love appear?, probably more than those 697. Now, of course, we could go back to Deuteronomy 6 and verse 5 where God commanded in the law that all men should love the Lord their God with all their heart, with all their soul, with all their mind and with all their strength. You might say: 'I love golf'. 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. I think there are few things today that have hurt the cause of Christ more than this very thing: jealousy, enviousness among God's people. Transcribed by: It doesn't mean that God is against sexual union, it just means the concept was totally depraved and perverted. Where in the Bible is Jesus first mentioned by name? 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? 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. Demonstrating brotherly love proves the presence of eternal life. He gives us the explanation: it was Cain's parentage of the wicked one, his practices of wickedness. 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. Have you ever scandalised? John Mark, traditionally the author of the Gospel of Mark. January 2006 The problem in Cain's heart was simply jealousy or envy, and someone has said it is the most destructive force in the world to be jealous or envious. 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. button. That believers could be envious and jealous of one another?' Meekness, love not fighting, but bowed at Calvary. Then Paul says: 'Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus'. 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. Someone has said: 'To love the world to me is no chore, my big trouble is the man next door'. 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. It always protects, it always trusts, it always hopes, it always perseveres. Patience is love enduring in every trial and test. 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. Yet this Gospel does not use the word pistis, faith. Oh, we skite over that one very quickly! Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me'. Now what is it that gives the love of God at the cross its character? Not only were they renowned for doctrinal purity, but early Christians were renowned for practical charity. That I may live like Thee'. This love marks us apart as disciples of our Lord (John 13:35; 15:12-13). Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. John, the relative of the High Priest (see Acts 4:6) 3. Two Christians were at an evangelism conference on one occasion. That was all the reason Cain needed to hate him and to murder him - a sure sign he wasn't a child of God. Let this my motto be: This John is mentioned frequently in the Synoptic Gospels , but always (with a lone exception) in company with his brother James or with Peter or often with both ( Matthew 4:21). The Lord Jesus was commanding them: 'You see the agape love that I have and am going to display for you at the cross, I want you to show that same love to one another'. The first is “not.” “Herein is love, not”--“not that we loved God.” Very naturally many conclude that this means “not that we loved God first.” That is not exactly the truth taught here, but still it is a weighty truth, and is mentioned in 1 John 4:19 in express words--“We love Him because He … 'All His compassion and purity; He referred to himself as "the elder" and is certainly the last apostle living at the time. The Greek god 'Eros' takes a personification of this concept, and 'Aphrodite' and many other pagan gods were personifications of this fleshly, lustful love. If they see a stranger they take him home and are happy as though he were a real brother. 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. James is saying, just as John, if you close your hand to him, and if you close your home to him, and if you close your heart to him, how does the love of God dwell in you? 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