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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:7-8

God Is Essentially Light and Love, Holy Love, And Therefore Those who Are His and Know Him and Abide in Him Will Reveal That Love To All Who Are His (1 John 4:7 to 1 John 5:3 ). ‘Beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God, and every one who loves is begotten of God, and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.’ This statement, beloved of all, especially the world which interprets it totally incorrectly, is not at all quite so simple to understand, and... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:9

‘In this was the love of God manifested in us, that God has sent his only unique Son into the world that we might live through him.’ God’s love as in mind in this passage is a love revealed in sending ‘His only unique Son’, (in other words the only One of the same essence and being as Himself. This is using human terminology to depict a divine truth), into the world that we might live through Him. He sent Him in His great love, so that those who would truly respond to Him might have life. And... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:10

‘In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.’ This is the final definition and revelation of love. It is not found in any love that we have, but in God’s great love in which He sent His own beloved Son to be the propitiation for our sins. It is a love that has provided a way back to Him. It is a love that provided a means of doing all that was necessary to remove the effects of sin from those who respond to Him.... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:11

‘Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.’ The greatness of this love of God, so wonderfully revealed, can only move those who believe in it and respond to it to love one another. How can we know that love and not love those whom God has called through it? We are one in that love. To know and to respond to God’s love should and will result in a desire to reveal that love to all who truly love Him, for we will be transformed by that love and desirous to ensure that the... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:12-14

‘No man has beheld God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit, and we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.’ We do not abide in God by seeing Him. Indeed no one has beheld God at any time. But His presence among us, and His abiding in us is revealed in the love that flows from us to our fellow-believers.... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:15

‘Whoever will confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.’ God’s salvation is only effective through His Son. Each one who truly confesses Jesus as God’s Son, and as the Saviour of the world, believes in the fact that the only Son became flesh in the man Jesus and dwelt among us, and makes that confession as a response of faith in the light of all He has done for us in dying for us. Then as a result of this true faith he has God abiding in him, and himself abides in... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:16

‘And we know and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.’ John wants there to be no doubt about the love that God has for His own, and how it affects us. We who are His, know and believe the love that God has in us. Note that it is in us as well as for us. We have come to the Saviour of the world and experienced and come to appreciate that love, and rejoice that it is within us, resulting in an outflowing of love... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:17-18

‘ Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment, and he who is afraid is not made perfect in love.’ The one who knows the love of God in Christ in him and abides in Him finds that that love is made perfect within him (see 1 John 4:12). He is aware of that love as revealed in the giving of a Saviour, and the suffering of a... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:19

‘We love, because he first loved us.’ ‘We’. That is, we who are His, who have come to believe in Jesus Christ as our Saviour and Lord, who come together with His people that we might learn more of Him, who know that Jesus Christ is true man and true God, who have received Him as our means of reconciliation with God, of propitiation before God, who have come to understand His purposes for His own, all His own, who are continually experiencing the working of His Holy Spirit within us. But what is... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:20

‘If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who loves not his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.’ The result is that we will love all who are true brothers in Christ, those who are of and speak forth the truth. For they share the love that we enjoy, and they too are in His love. And they minister to us of Christ, as we should minister to them. Must they not then be within our love, which He has produced within us? It would be an impossible... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:7-8

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:9

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:10

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:11

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:12-14

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:15

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:16

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:17-18

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:19

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:20

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