Sermon originally preached on July 12, 2015, at Crosspoint Bible Church in Omaha, Nebraska.

1. 1 JOHN 4:7-12
When God Wins, Love Wins

2. When God Wins, Love Wins

3. 3 For the time will come when people will
not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to
suit their own desires, they will gather
around them a great number of teachers to
say what their itching ears want to hear.
2 Timothy 4:3
What’s going on?

4. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for
a lie, and worshiped and served created
things rather than the Creator… 29 They
have become filled with every kind of
wickedness, evil, greed and depravity….
Romans 1:25, 29
What’s going on?

5. Dear friends, let us love one another, for
love comes from God. Everyone who loves
has been born of God and
knows God.
1 John 4:7
When God Wins, Love Wins

6. “Dear friends” = “beloved:”
“agapētos” = those who are loved
When God Wins, Love Wins

7. Dear friends, let us love one another, for
love comes from God. Everyone who loves
has been born of God and
knows God.
1 John 4:7
When God Wins, Love Wins

8. Dear friends, let us love one another, for
love comes from God. Everyone who loves
has been born of God and
knows God.
1 John 4:7
When God Wins, Love Wins

9. Dear friends, let us love one another, for
love comes from God. Everyone who loves
has been born of God and
knows God.
1 John 4:7
When God Wins, Love Wins

10. “knows God”
“ginōskō” = true understanding
When God Wins, Love Wins

11. Whoever does not love does not know God,
because God is love.
1 John 4:8
When God Wins, Love Wins

12. Dear friends, let us love one another, for
love comes from God. Everyone who loves
has been born of God and
knows God. 8Whoever does not love does
not know God,
because God is love.
1 John 4:7-8
When God Wins, Love Wins

13. 1 John 4:8 - “God is love”
When God Wins, Love Wins
John 4:24 - “God is spirit”
1 John 1:5 - “God is light”

14. This is how God showed his love
among us: He sent his one and only Son
into the world that we might live through
him.
1 John 4:9
When God Wins, Love Wins

15. “showed”
“phanaroō” = appear, make known
phanaros = shining
When God Wins, Love Wins

16. This is how God showed his love
among us: He sent his one and only Son
into the world that we might live through
him.
1 John 4:9
When God Wins, Love Wins

17. This is love: not that we loved God, but that
he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10
When God Wins, Love Wins

18. This is love: not that we loved God, but that
he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10
When God Wins, Love Wins
No pre-requisites

19. This is love: not that we loved God, but that
he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10
When God Wins, Love Wins
Active

20. This is love: not that we loved God, but that
he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10
When God Wins, Love Wins
Sacrificial

21. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we
also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:11
When God Wins, Love Wins

22. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we
also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:11
When God Wins, Love Wins
• No pre-requisites
• Active
• Sacrificial

23. When God Wins, Love Wins

24. When God Wins, Love Wins
Walking

25. When God Wins, Love Wins
Walking
Tabernacle / Temple

26. When God Wins, Love Wins
Walking
Tabernacle / Temple
Jesus Christ

27. When God Wins, Love Wins
Walking
Tabernacle / Temple
Jesus Christ
Holy Spirit

28. No one has ever seen God; but if we love
one another, God lives in us and his love is
made complete in us.
1 John 4:12
When God Wins, Love Wins

29. Verse 7 - command
When God Wins, Love Wins
Verse 11 - privilege
Verse 12 – consequence (evidence)
Our Love:
“…let us love…”
“…since God so loved…”
“…if we love…his love is made complete…”

30. No one has ever seen God; but if we love
one another, God lives in us and his love is
made complete in us.
1 John 4:12
When God Wins, Love Wins

31. No prerequisites
When God Wins, Love Wins
Active
Sacrificial
God’s Love:

32. No prerequisites
When God Wins, Love Wins
Active
Sacrificial
God’s Love:
Light – holy, righteous
Spirit – eternity in mind

33. When God Wins, Love Wins

34. No prerequisites
When God Wins, Love Wins
Active
Sacrificial
God’s Love / Our Love: