NTCC Sunday 10/27/2024 SLIDE 1 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. 1 John 4:16-19 ESV SLIDE 2 GRAPHIC SLIDE 3 Fear the LORD= Reverence, Respect, Total Acknowledgment Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! Psalm 34:9 ESV SLIDE 4 Fear= Dread, Terror, Timidity, Alarming SLIDE 5 “Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. Isaiah 54:4 ESV SLIDE 6 For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV SLIDE 7 Casts and drives out fear: LOVE. SLIDE 8 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.” 1 John 4:18 ESV SLIDE 9 “Perfect” means to be mature, complete, fully developed, made whole -perfect tense= wholeness that is to be continued SLIDE 10 “Love” is “agape” which means “unconditional, sacrificial”- verb SLIDE 11 “Perfect love casts out fear” =Matured unconditional love drives out fear =Complete, fully developed sacrificial love drives out fear (timidity, terror) =Whole, selfless love drives out fear SLIDE 12 “By this is love perfected with us…” (V.17) In order to drive out fear you must be perfected in love: 1.) Know & Believe the Love God has for you 2.) Abide in God (love) 3.) God Abide in you SLIDE 13 1.) Know & Believe the Love God has for you So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. (V.16a) SLIDE 14 “Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:7-8 NIV SLIDE 15 2.) Abide in God (love) God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God… (V.16b) SLIDE 16 “We love because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 ESV SLIDE 17 To abide means, “ to remain”, “to stay in and with” - perfect tense= “endure to remain” SLIDE 18 Whoever says he abides in Him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. 1 John 2:6 ESV If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. John 15:10 ESV SLIDE 19 3.) God Abide in you …and God abides in him. (V.16c) SLIDE 20 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 1 John 14-15 ESV SLIDE 21 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:11-12 ESV SLIDE 22 How is love perfected? How to have mature unconditional love? 1.) Knowing & Believing the Love God has for you 2.) Abiding in God (love) 3.) God Abiding in you SLIDE 23 I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.