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For it is God's nature to be kind, and to give happiness. The law of God is love; and all would have been perfectly happy, had all obeyed it. The provision of the gospel, for the forgiveness of sin, and the salvation of sinners, consistently with God's glory and justice, shows that God is love.
a. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God: True prophecy, and true teaching, will present a true Jesus. In John’s day, the issue was about if Jesus had truly come in a real body of flesh and blood.
1 John 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love: Greek - o me agapon (PAP) ouk egno (3SAAI) ton theon hoti o theos agape estin (3SPAI) . Wuest - The one who is not habitually loving has not come to know God, because God as to His nature is love.
First of all, we know it by their witness of Jesus Christ. Secondly, Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. And he that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love ( 1 John 4:7-8 ).
16 lip 2001 · If He provides, He provides in love; if He judges, He judges in love. Love is inherent in the nature of God; it is at the heart of all God is. It is not possible to reverse “God is love” to “love is God.”. Love is of God, but love and God are not the same thing.
He that loveth not, knoweth not God - Has no true acquaintance with God; has no just views of him, and no right feelings toward him. The reason for this is implied in what is immediately stated, that “God is love,” and of course if they have no love reigning in their hearts, they cannot pretend to be like him.
But what the Apostle says consists of three parts. He first shews an evil dangerous to the faithful; and therefore he exhorts them to beware. He prescribes how they were to beware, that is, by making a distinction between the spirits; and this is the second part.
