In this lesson you will learn why “loving one another” is so important for us as disciples. Jesus indicated that we would be known by the fact that we love one another (John 13.35). In the text, we learn that God is love and John gives us three reasons why we ought to love one another: 1) Love is of God; 2) We are born of God; and, 3) We know God.

1. GOD
IS
LOVE
1 John 4.7-12, CB NT p. 423

3. “By this all people will know that you are my
disciples, if you have love for one another.”
(John 13:35, CB NT p. 191)

4. “If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing.”
(1 Corinthians 13.2, CB NT p. 305)

5. “If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my
body to be burned, but have not love, I gain
nothing.”
(1 Corinthians 13.3, CB NT p. 305)

6. “So now faith, hope, love abide these three; but
the greatest of these is love.”
(1 Corinthians 13.13, CB NT p. 305)

7. “By this all people will know that you are my
disciples, if you have love for one another.”
(John 13:35, CB NT p. 191)

8. “By this all people will know that you are my
disciples, if you have love for one another.”
(John 13:35, CB NT p. 191)

9. What
is
love?

10. What
is
love?

11. What
is
love?

12. What
is
love?
God is love.

13. God is love.
God sent his only Son into the world, so that we
might live through him.
(1 John 4:9, CB NT p. 423)

14. God is love.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only
Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
(John 1:14, CB NT p. 161)

15. God is love.
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent
forth his Son, born of woman, born under the
law, to redeem those who were under the law, so
that we might receive adoption as sons.
(Galatians 4:4-5, CB NT p. 331)

16. God is love.
Not that we have loved God
(1 John 4:10, CB NT p. 423)

17. God is love.
He loved us and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins.
(1 John 4:10, CB NT p. 423)

18. God is love.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no
sin, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.
(2 Corinthians 5:21, CB NT p. 317)

19. God is love.
“Beloved, let us
love one another”

20. God is love.
“we ought also to
love one another”

21. “we ought also to love one another”

22. “we ought also to love one another”
1. Love is of God.

23. “we ought also to love one another”
2. We are born of God.

24. “we ought also to love one another”
3. We know God.

25. “we ought also to love one another”
3. We know God.
2. We are born of God.
1. Love is of God.

26. “we ought also to love one another”

27. “we ought also to love one another”
“Love him out of it.”
—D. M. Lloyd-Jones

28. Will today be the day
you decide
to go to
heaven?

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30. Full Joy: 1 John
#20
God Is Love
1 John 4.7-12
Compiled and Presented by:
Dave Stewart
9 June, 2013
www.churchofchristmiranda.com
Synopsis: In this lesson you will learn why “loving one another” is so important for us as disciples. Jesus indicated that we would be
known by the fact that we love one another (John 13.35). In the text, we learn that God is love and John gives us three reasons why we
ought to love one another: 1) Love is of God; 2) We are born of God; and, 3) We know God.
“Let all that you do be done with love.”
“Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway
Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.”