Address—A.M. Barry
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Reimbursed successful of John and chapter 4 reading from the eighth verse First Epistle of John chapter 4 and verse eight. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love.
And this was manifested the love of God toward us.
Because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world.
That we might live.
Through him.
During his love.
Not that we love God.
But that we loved us and fed his son to be the officiation.
For our sins.
Delivered if God loved us.
We ought also to love one another.
No man hath seen God at anytime if we love one another.
God dwelleth in US, and his love is perfect, said in US.
Thereby no way that we dwell in him.
And we are not, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God.
God dwelleth in him.
And he in God.
And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Therein is our love, Martin says. Love with us made perfect, that we may have boldness.
In the day of judgment.
Because as he is.
So are we in this world?
There is No Fear in love.
The perfect love casteth out fear.
Because here have torment, he that spirit is not made perfect in love.
We love him because he first loved us.
Man say I love God and hateth his brother. He is a liar.
For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this is his commandment, that.
His commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God, loveth his brother also.
We often hear this stated.
God is light and God is love.
We find both the amnesty pistol.
But they're not put together as it's often stated and often heard.
But we have.
Between these two statements.
We have the 2nd, 3rd till we get to the 4th chapter.
That is between the two wonderful statements that God is like and God is love. We have that distance because before the soul can enter into the wonderful, marvelous love of God, we have to know that God is light.
And that everything about us is exposed and brought into the release.
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In his presence and when we found that we are entirely.
That nothing is hidden from him, just like fear. When he was in the boat on the lake and he gets a big draft of fishes, he realized that he was in the present.
The very Creator who made all things, and he falls down at his feet, saying, Depart from me, for I'm a sinful man, O Lord. That is, He had discovered what God is in light.
And then we learned what God is in love and when we found out that we have to do.
With a thin hating God and everything is manifested and made naked and open in the eyes of him with whom we have to do. And still, in spite of all our nothingness and all our sins and guilt and failure, that God loves us. That's what breaks down.
By every opposition and brings us to know that wonderful love that God will love the world.
That He gave His only begotten Son, that was, whoever belameth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Now in the verses I've read where we have the word love mentioned so many times.
You'll notice where I began.
In the ninth verse, and this was manifested the love of God toward us.
That the first thought the love of God toward us and then we get in the the 12Th verse.
God dwelleth in US and his love is perfected in US. There we got God's love in it, and then we get in the in the.
The 17th 1St.
Wherein is, I'll leave that as it is in the margin. Here is love with a paid person. So we have the love of God toward us, we have the love of God in US, and we have the love of God with us.
I just love towards us.
Takes us back before we came into existence.
Or tell us when this was manifested, the love of God toward us, the cause of God, sent His only begotten Son into the world.
That is, God has displayed that love toward us when we were lost and before we were lost. Anticipating.
The time when we would be in need and he spent his his son in that love toward us, and then we get his love in it.
If we love one another, God dwelleth in us. That's the 12Th verse and his love, his perfect dad in US, There's the love of God in US Now that's what is true to be wonderful thought, the love of God in a poor Sinner down here just because he has accepted Christ.
As his own personal savior.
And then we get in my 17th verse here in yes, love toward us, love with us rather made perfect. So you have you see the whole existence, our whole existence brought before us when God sent his Son, and now at the present that love in.
US. And then we get it. We are carried on to the judgment day.
And then we get the love of God with us. So what a full display we have.
All the love of God.
Without toward sinful man.
Well, in the ninth verse. And this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
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Now the first thought is life, because in our natural state.
We're dead in practices and in sin. Isn't it just as dead as someone that's lying in the cemetery?
No desire, no heart, no thought, no interest in divine things, no concern about hereafter. But it's a marvelous thing that we're told this in the 5th chapter of John.
That the hour cometh, and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.
Well, beloved friends, you might say, then if I'm a dead Sinner, there's no hope for me. Ah, there is.
Is this just to tell the dead man to get out of his grave and go to work? Isn't it? Can't do anything. It's all over. Death has taken him away.
That for a Sinner that is as morally and seriously.
House bid. There's one thing that's possible, and that is that he can hear the voice of the Son of God.
Or are there any here that have never listened to the voice of the Son of God? Think of how he's speaking at this moment. Live until his grace is good.
As he says, Come unto me, all ye that.
That labor and your heavy labor, and that will give you rest.
So you see, the first thing is that we might live. That is, the first thing the soul needs is life.
That we might.
Lived through him.
Well then we get here in His love. Not that we love God, but that He loved us.
And sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins, where we get the love of God displayed in its holiness.
And we need to remember, friends, that God is our holy God.
And so because of His Holiness, we needed one that would take our place to bear the judgment, and that's where propitiation is brought in.
Not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the Pro 58 for our sins.
You notice in these verses there's a very opposite of the demands of the law.
The Lord said, Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all our minds, and with the whole life thing, and then it says, And thy neighbors thyself.
But this verse tells me it's not that we love God.
Well, here's the love that goes out in the very opposite way. Not because there was a love in my heart to the God to whom I was responsible. It was when there was hatred in the heart toward him that God.
Proved and manifested His love, not that we love God, but that He loved us. Oh beloved friends.
And meditate on those few words that he loved us.
And sent you from these approaches for our sins that takes us to the cross that tells us how he.
Wears suffered there the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God.
The propeciation for our sins. Then we get in the 11Th verse. If God full of dust, we ought to love one another.
From the command of the law, first you see us to ourselves, that we're the love God, our soul, mind and strength. And then there's still the neighbor. The law said thy neighbors, I felt. Now here's the principle of grace. If God so loved us, there is a motive for it.
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Not a demand of the law.
Precious appeal to the heart. If God so loved us, we ought to love one another.
Now speaking about the love of God in it, no man has seen God at anytime. If we love one another, God dwelleth in US.
And His love is perfected in US.
In the first chapter, the Gospel of John.
We have the same difficulty that way. I just turned to John One and verse 18 for a moment. John one and 18.
Your man has been God at anytime, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared him.
We told that God dwelleth in thick darkness.
In light unaccoable, whom no man hath been nor can be, that is, we are just shut out from the present.
Our holy God of majesty and power.
But oh how lovely the verse comes in. The very verse that tells us that no man has seen God, tells us how we can see God, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father.
We have declared it. Think about one who came from the bosom of a Father. All the love that's expressed in that gift of all gifts, when God gave the front of his left and set him into this world of spending thought to live here below among men, until the world put him out of his team by the cross.
And buried him and sealed his graves as though they would never have him.
Again, among them, well, that's.
At the core heart of man in this world. But that's the one, friends, that has revealed the unseen God whom it is impossible for you and me to see her to behold.
Now we find the same difficulty ways in this chapter before.
No man hath seen God at anytime. If we will love one another, God dwelleth in US.
And His lovest perfected in US. Wonderful, isn't it? That the very way or the very time when God seems to be shut out and the sun has manifested that love in this scene. Now those that are His can have the very love of that One in their heart and manifest that love.
In their love for one another.
Power, secure love, beloved friends. And it's the love that speaks always the good or the one that the opposite of that love and care.
They wouldn't be then guilty of in any way encouraging another to go on in the wrong course. And if we can give them to see that the courts they're following is a mistake and that wrong court, well, when there is restoration for restoration, but love can be shown out and displayed.
Just like when Peter came back, I'm sure after the Lord and visited him and had a controversy with him alone. You know, we find Peter with his brethren there in the 24th chapter of Luke. For we're told that when the two from the May have came back to Jerusalem, they found the 11 gathered together saying the Lord is living.
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And half appeared under Simon. 4 Simon after denying the Lord, and the Lord looked at him.
We got up and went out, left the company of those enemies of Christ, never to associate with Him again. But there is something more and something more precious. And that was when the Lord restored Peter's school, and he went back to his brother, and there was a full happy restoration. And then in the we find them.
Pray first of John, how his publicly restored curious ministry when he asked Judge Luke of his failure, when the Lord has said, Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me all? What a test it was Peter, and to know how his reply was, he said, Lord thou north.
Just as much as to say, Lord, I know that no one else can see any love in my heart.
After the way I feel that I know that you can see that love and when Peter has taken that humble.
Confession.
Of how he had dishonored his his Lord by them. He is happily restored among his brethren, and the Lord tells Peter that he's going to honor him in the very way that he had dishonored him by denying him when he was by ambassador.
Being condemned to be here crucified.
No, we might think, beloved friends.
Communion is something that beyond the.
Rank and file among God's people.
That is for those who have gone on for years.
In a devoted and consistent way, but I like to read this.
It fell in the 50s. First, whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he and God, well, there we have an expression of communion. It's just the owning the confession.
Of who he is that gives that precious happy communion with himself.
Now I'll just go on to the last thought I had before me.
And the 17th verse here in his love without me perfect, that we may have bound in the day of judgment.
Times that we can think of the the before the judgment seat and all that past history to come there before the judge would be the last occasion we can think of where we'd have boldness. Well, we'd think, oh, what shame, what a humiliating thing I feel that time.
And now it's come up here at this perhaps this judgment seat, but then that marvelous beloved friend, that we can have goodness even in the day of judgment.
And why does the reason given that we can have that holy boom at a time when everything will be manifested in that day? It says because as he is.
So are we not when we get to heaven, but in this world? Don't say as he was know when the Lord was here. He was on his way to judgment in the cross. Now he's beyond the cross. He's beyond the other side of the judgment.
And if just as he is in that thing where he is now seated every time you ourselves as he is just like the very one who seated there and that's why in view of of the coming judgment that will set free from any sort of fear down.
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Because as he is, so are we in this world.