1 JOHN 4:7-16

Knowing Godthrough Love

7 Dear friends, let us love one another,because love is from God,and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. 10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God.If we love one another, God remains in us and his love is made complete in us. 13 This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.14 And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent his Son as the world’s Savior. 15 Whoever confessesthat Jesus is the Son of God—God remains in him and he in God. 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

UP, IN, OUT 

UP: Looking up at God - what does this text say about God?  

IN: The Holy Spirit ministers to us. What can we receive from this passage?

OUT: How can we use this text to pray out on behalf of others?