God Is Love

1 John 4:7-9 - Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

John 4:24 - God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

John 1:18 - No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.

John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Conclusions:

• Only those who are to some degree like Him truly know Him
• In His essential nature and in all His actions, God is loving
• John similarly affirms that God is spirit and light, as well as holy, powerful, faithful, true and just
• The place of worship is irrelevant, because true worship must be in keeping with God’s nature, which is spirit
• In John’s gospel, truth is associated with Christ, a fact that has great importance for the proper understanding of Christian worship
• God the One and Only is an explicit declaration of Christ’s deity
• Sometimes in the Old Testament people are said to have seen God
• We are also told that no one can see God and live
• Since no human being can see God as He really is, those who saw God saw Him in a form He took on Himself temporarily for the occasion
• Now, however, Christ has made God known
• God so loved the world is the great truth that motivated God’s plan of salvation
• The world is all people on earth—or perhaps all creation
• Although believers are also called sons of God, Jesus is God’s Son in a unique sense

Application:

• Are you to some degree like Christ?
• Do you worship in spirit and in truth?
• Has Christ made God known to you?
• Do you believe in CHrist?

All Scripture verses taken from NIV

Conclusions derived from NIV Study Bible