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Verse 18. _THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE_] The man who feels that he loves
God with all his heart can never _dread_ him as his _Judge_. As he is
now made a partaker of his Spirit, and carries a sense of t...
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THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE - Love is not an affection which produces
fear. In the love which we have for a parent, a child, a friend, there
is no fear. If a man had perfect love to God, he would have no...
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V. HEREBY WE KNOW
Chapter S 3:19-5:13
_ 1. Hereby we know that we are of the truth (1 John 3:19)_
2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God (1 John 4:1)
3. Hereby know we the Spirit of truth and of error...
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John returns to the theme of 1 John 3:14 ff., be cause if the Church
is the home of truth, still more is it the home of love. The evidence
for our Divine sonship is that the love manifested by God in...
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THE PERILS OF THE SURGING LIFE OF THE SPIRIT (1 John 3:24 B- 1 John
4:1)
_ 4:1 This is how we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he
gave to us. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but t...
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Beloved, let us love one another, because love has its source in God,
and everyone who loves has God as the source of his birth and knows
God. He who does not love has not come to know God. In this Go...
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NO. not, 1 John 4:3.
PERFECT. App-125.
TORMENT. punishment. Greek. _kolasia._ See Matthew 25:46....
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Love is the Mark of the Children of the God who is Love
7. _Beloved, let us love one another_ See on 1 John 3:2. The
transition seems abrupt, as if the Apostle had summarily dismissed an
unwelcome sub...
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Proof of the preceding statement that perfect love will give us
boldness, by shewing the mutually exclusive nature of love and fear.
Love moves towards others in the spirit of self-sacrifice: fear
shr...
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1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. God is Love
There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point
onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of
summary (1 John 5:13-21). T...
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1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. GOD IS LOVE
There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point
onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of
summary (1 John 5:13-21). Th...
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18. Proof of the preceding statement that perfect love will give us
boldness, by shewing the mutually exclusive nature of love and fear.
Love moves towards others in the spirit of self-sacrifice: fear...
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7–21. LOVE IS THE MARK OF THE CHILDREN OF THE GOD WHO IS LOVE...
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INFLUENCE AND IMPORTANCE OF LOVE
1 John 4:18. _There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out
fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect
in love_.
TH...
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THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE, &C.— "This perfect love is of such a
delightful nature, that though it be ever attended with a holy filial
reverence of God, and cautious filial fear of offending; yet there...
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CHAPTER XIV
_RIGHTEOUSNESSDEMONSTRATION OF LOVE_
1 John 4:17-21; 1 John 5:1-3
A.
_The Text_
Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the
day of judgement; because as he is...
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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because
fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Fear has no place in love. Bold confidence (1 John 4:17), based...
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VERSE 18. THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE.
The word fear is here used in the sense of terror. Now, this kind of
fear is banished when love appears. There may be, and there is, and
there ought to be the fear...
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3 The spirit of antichrist is the spirit of the world. It does not
want the Christ of the Scriptures, but prefers some substitute more
suited to its taste. This spirit has come to pervade, not only th...
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FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD IN LOVE
1. Try the spirits] RV 'Prove the spirits.' The verb is used of
testing metals.
2, 3. See on 2 John 1:7....
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NO FEAR IN LOVE] not the rightful awe which pertains to reverence, but
servile or guilty fear....
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HOW CAN I BE SURE?
1 JOHN
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 4
TEST THE *SPIRITS TO SEE IF THEY ARE TRUE (1 JOHN 4:1-6)
V1 My friends, do not believe every *spirit. First, make sure where
they are from. Se...
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THE PERFECT LOVE THE SUREST TEST (1 John 4:7).
(_a_)
_Fraternal love the necessary product of the true knowledge of God,
because God is love_ (1 John 4:7).
(_b_)
_The grand recent historical exhibi...
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The Blessedness of Love. “Beloved, let us love one another, because
love is of God, and every one that loveth of God hath been begotten
and is getting to know God. He that loveth not did not get to kn...
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Bern.: “Amor reverentiam nescit”. φόβος, the opposite of
παρρησία. κόλασιν ἔχει, “implies punishment,”
the portion of slaves. The portion of slaves is punishment
(κόλασις) and their spirit fear; the p...
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THE TEST OF OUR LOVE
1 John 4:12
If we are willing to be channels through which God's love flows to
others, there need be no limit to the fullness of that holy current.
In humility, selflessness, an...
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Two closely related perils threaten our fellowship with God as love,
false prophets and the spirit which actuates them. Teaching is to be
tested by the indwelling Spirit. All who refuse to confess tha...
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MATURE LOVE GIVES ONE BOLDNESS IN JUDGMENT
When the love of God becomes mature in His children, like the ripening
of fruit, they can face the judgment with boldness. Such boldness
arises from the fact...
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There is no (k) fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in
love.
(k) If we understand by love, that we are in God, and God in u...
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Fear is not in charity, &c. By the fear, which a perfect charity and
love of God excludes, we may understand a fear of temporal losses in
this world, of the loss of goods, of banishment, of torments,...
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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone
that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. (8) He that loveth not
knoweth not God; for God is love. (9) In this was manifested the...
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_FEAR AND ITS ANTIDOTE_
‘Happy is the man that feareth alway.’ ‘Perfect love casteth out
fear.’
Proverbs 28:14 (with 1 John 4:18).
Fear has a place in the Gospel, may we but find it. The object of...
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_LOVE AND FEAR_
‘Perfect love casteth out fear.’
1 John 4:18
This principle, that ‘perfect love casteth out fear,’ is a
universal principle, and belongs to all human things. It is shown most
comple...
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18_There is no fear _He now commends the excellency of this blessing
by stating the contrary effect, for he says that we are continually
tormented until God delivers us from misery and anguish by the...
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Now, to make use of this last proof, caution was required, for many
false prophets would assume, and even in the time of the apostle had
already assumed, the semblance of having received communication...
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THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE,.... In the love of the brethren; where that
is, there is no fear: so far as that prevails and gains ground, fear
removes; not the filial fear of God, the new covenant grace o...
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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because
fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Ver. 18. _There is no fear in love_] But complacence and acquiesce...
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_There is no fear in love_ No slavish or tormenting fear, diffidence,
or distrust, can be where love reigns; _but perfect_, mature _love
casteth out_ such _fear, because_ such _fear hath torment_ And...
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FEAR HATH TORMENT; literally, fear hath punishment. It is this towards
which fear looks, and the dread of it fills the soul with misery....
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Perfection in brotherly love:...
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THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE, BUT PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT FEAR; BECAUSE
FEAR HATH TORMENT. HE THAT FEARETH IS NOT MADE PERFECT IN LOVE....
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But there must be guards as to the operation of the Spirit of God,
that is, the child of God must be guarded against all that would
imitate the operation of the Spirit. Satan is extremely cunning, and...
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14-21 The Father sent the Son, he willed his coming into this world.
The apostle attests this. And whosoever shall confess that Jesus is
the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. This confe...
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That he proveth from the contrary natures of fear and love. The fear
which is of the baser kind, viz. that is servile, and depresses the
spirit, hath no place with love, but is excluded by it, by the...
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Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Seventh
For, fearing the Lord, you will not do these deeds, but will refrain
from them. For fears are of two kinds:[2]
Clement of Alexandria Who is the Rich Man that S...
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G235 perfect G5046 love...
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‘ 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, beca...
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1 John 4:17-19. Here enters the second point of 1 John 4:12: ‘His
love is perfected in us.' The ‘His' is omitted; HEREIN IS LOVE MADE
PERFECT WITH US, that is, in all that concerns our estate. Love is...
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The ruling idea of the third part is Faith in the Spirit's testimony
concerning the Son of God incarnate. The close of chap. 3 introduces
the theme by the first explicit mention of faith and the Spiri...
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FEAR
(φοβος). Like a bond-slave (Romans 8:15), not the reverence of a
son (ευλαβεια, Hebrews 5:7) or the obedience to a father (εν
φοβω, 1 Peter 1:17). This kind of dread is the opposite of
παρρησια...
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PERFECT
(_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
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1 John 4:18
I. We can scarcely conceive how anything could live in such a world as
this that had not the element of fear. For surely every part of life,
not alone of the human family, but down to the...
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1 John 4:9. _In 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._
There is love in our creation; there is lov...
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1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit,_
A simpleton believes every word that he hears, but «the wise man's
eyes are in his head,» so he examines what he sees and hears, and
does not blindly...
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1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
the world._
It was so in John's day: it is so in these days....
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1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirit
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
the world._
This is an unction of which there is great need i...
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1 John 4:1. _Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
the world._
If John had need to say that in the early mornin...
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CONTENTS: Christians warned of false doctrines concerning Christ's
person and work. Tests of the true.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, anti-christ, John.
CONCLUSION: God's people must be ever c...
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1 John 4:1. _Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
they are of God._ Whether those teachers believe that Christ is come
in the flesh, which to the present hour the unbelieving jews den...
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1 JOHN 4:7 The Assurance of God through the Love of God. John’s
teaching in these verses is like the apostle Paul’s “love
chapter,” 1 Corinthians 13:1.1 JOHN—NOTE ON
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 4:18 God’s PERFECT LOVE for believers CASTS
OUT the FEAR of wrath and eternal punishment....
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Would someone please check the Psalm number in sentence formatted in
blue in the 3rd note of ver. 18.
CHAPTER 4
1. _Most dearly beloved_, &c. By the word _spirit_ he means
suggestion, inspiration, im...
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 John 4:15. SON OF GOD.—St. John was jealous of the double truth of
the person of Jesus—His Divinity and His humanity.
1 John 4:17. MADE PERFECT.—Or reaches its purpo...
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EXPOSITION
1 JOHN 4:1 - 1 JOHN 5:12
(2) _The source of son-ship. _Possession of the Spirit.
1 JOHN 4:1
Confession of the Incarnation is
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to I John chapter 4. As we go back to
verse 1 John 4:24 of chapter 3, the later portion, "Hereby we know
that He abides in us by the Spirit which He has given us." I kn...
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1 John 4:12; 2 Timothy 1:7; Hebrews 12:28; James 2:19; Job 15:21;...
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There is no fear in love [φ ο β ο ς ο υ κ ε σ τ ι ν ε ν
τ η α γ α π η]. Lit., fear is not. It has no existence. The
fear is that spoken of in 1 Peter 1:17; Hebrews 12:28; godly fear;
filial reverence;...
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TESTING THE TRUE AND THE FALSE
1 John 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We have in our opening verses some important admonitions, and also
some important instructions.
1. IMPORTANT ADMONITIONS.
(1) "Believe...
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THE LOVE OF GOD CHAPTER
1 John 4:7
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We have always thought of the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians as
the Love Chapter. However, we have in the Word of God another chapter
whic...
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There is no fear in love — No slavish fear can be where love reigns.
But perfect, adult love casteth out slavish fear: because such fear
hath torment — And so is inconsistent with the happiness of lov...
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If love casts out all fear, why are we told to fear God?
PROBLEM: John affirms here that “perfect love casts out all fear.”
Yet we are told that the “fear of the Lord is the beginning of
knowledge” (P...