While self-preservation is the first law of physical life, self-sacrifice is the first law of the spiritual life. Take out time to visit our catalog for more information on similar topics. - because lust is the seed of adultery, and hate and anger are the seed of murder. One is not responsibility for the other. What you are describing is that those things make you feel good, you get a measure of self-gratification tucking into a bar of Cadbury's, or spending your husband's money - it feels good! What worse accusation could be made, therefore, than to say that a person is unloving? "The one who does not love, does not know God" (1John 4:7-8). He was not only of the wicked one, but he practised wickedness because his own works were evil and his brother's righteous. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. John wrote the Epistle in the later part of his life at Ephesus, where he spend most of his old age. Moreover, John had lived for Christ some sixty years daily walking with Him. But, if were going by the numbers, 1 John 4:7-21 wins in a close one. It refers to familial love, Gods love, romantic love, or the brotherly love between brothers and sisters in Christ. The word love inside the Bible can take on several different meanings since the Bible was not originally written in English. God could not have created a sinful world. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. "We know that we love the children ofGod when we love God and do his commandments" (1John 5:2). John gives us, first of all, an illustration of what this love is not, what this love is not like. Now I know we don't throw money at everybody coming, sometimes that would harm people and do them less good than it ought - but here's a brother coming into James' church, and he doesn't have any clothes and he doesn't have any shelter, he doesn't have any food and he doesn't have a job. 'Preach The Word' is a not-for-profit Christian ministry which exists to provide sound Bible teaching to all. Your support as a supervisor is invaluable. united with the material, because material is evil. Pete said: 'Well, I was talking to the bellboy, I actually led him to the Lord Jesus'. So you can see how this great word, beautiful word, has been perverted in our day. Thats roughly 1.3 times per verse. About one in every 50 words is a form of "love"that makes for about 52 mentions of love in just five short chapters. Now, maybe that's why we don't take it as seriously as murder, but that's why God does. Ultimately what it was was rebellion towards God, God wanted an offering and Abel came God's way with a little slain lamb, and Cain came his own way with an offering from the fruit of the ground because he was a farmer. 2. He claims to have personally known Christ. Now in Genesis 3 we have the story of how fellowship between God and man broke down, and then when we come to Genesis 4 we find that the offshoot of the fellowship between God and man breaking down is that man's fellowship with his fellow man breaks down, and Cain slays Abel. In the Old King James Version (KJV), the word love is mentioned 310 times. Charity appears in the King James Bible approximately 24 times. We are to examine the real item to make sure that we have itthen bask in the full reality of the fact that we are the Children of God! Does the world hate you? If you don't love your brother, you're still dead, you're a murderer like Cain, and he says at the end of verse 15 you do not possess eternal life. to live" of a Christians life in Christ. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying, I'm not saying that if you've been angry with somebody at some time, or you've fallen out with them, that you're on your way to hell - we all get angry with one another from time to time, like any family, and we all fall out with each other now and again. Whether it's singers envying other singers, churches envying other churches, preachers envying other preachers, elders envying other elders, deacons of deacons, businessmen in the fellowship envying the success of others who are businessmen, professionals, parents envious of children's success, students envious of others academic success - we could go on and on and on, and we begin to appreciate the seriousness of how this thing can multiply to extremes. Transcribed by: In John chapter 5 the Lord Jesus said that when we believe the Gospel we pass from death unto life, Ephesians 2 verse 1, ye who were once dead in your trespasses and in your sins have now been made alive unto God. Find out more about us, ourministry and how to use our site, David Legge ministers in theUnited Kingdom and Ireland, Send us an email or leave a comment via our Guestbook, I think love, as a concept and indeed as a word, is one that, perhaps, has been more abused and misused than any other in our language - especially over the last decade. After he died a poem of his was published, and it took the ninefold fruit of the Spirit from the book of Galatians that I mentioned to you at the beginning, and made them a kind of character study of the Lord Jesus - because that's what they are, they're the characteristics of the Lord Jesus Christ within the Christian. Answer (1 of 5): The word "love" occurs 240 times in the Old Testament in the King James version. [Read guidelines]. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Sosthenes in Ephesus. ", That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life (1 John 1:1). I don't know many. It is vicarious, He lays His life down for us - 'huper' (sp?) Additionally, it appears 46 times in the First Epistle of John. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. The deacon with the grudge sadly took sick, and he was lying on his deathbed, and all the other deacons bar one came to see him. "This is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another" (1John 3:11). That's roughly 1.8 times per verse. John's understanding of love has two main foundations: Jesus Christ is the origin and example of true godly love and without that love in us, we cannot be saved by him. In this same epistle in chapter 2 and verse 11 he's already stated that not only are we dead, but we're in the dark: 'He that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes'. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. Some people say that their marriage or their relationship has broken down irretrievably because they've 'fallen out of love'. Thus Christ and the message are one. How many times is God's love for us mentioned in the Bible? Whether it really is the authority over that of 1 Corinthians 13 is up for debate. Chapter 5 and verse 21: 'Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire'. Gentleness is love yielding to all that is not sin, John 15:13 Verse Concepts Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Out of love! But I wonder how many of us could substitute our names for this word 'love'? d. Same words used in the Gospel of John, as life (15 times ), light (6 times),love (33 times), fellowship(4 times), know (38 times), darkness, world. Comment * document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a665a0465510d9472b1ae7108738d8db" );document.getElementById("e218d56cc5").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. He SAW: He includes the reference to seeing with the eyes, which means it was not spiritual "seeing". It will also provide some examples of what the Bible says about love. If they see a stranger they take him home and are happy as though he were a real brother. Do we express sincerity through practicality? Do you know what's nearer the truth? This is what he said, I quote: 'They love one another. If you don't, or if you hate your brother, it's a sure sign that you lack eternal life. The Emperor Hadrian of Rome, in the early second century, called a man called Aristides to the palace to have him describe what Christians really were like. called gospels of Jude and dozens of other spurious books claiming to be from God. This expression 'lay down the life' is used many times in John's writings - John 10, 11 and 15. But a sure sign that you haven't is that you're going the whole way of the world, and they think you're it's best buddy. But if you don't love your brethren, you're still dead! Remember, that's who John is writing to. Here's how the poem went, listen very carefully: 'Joy is love exalting, and peace is love at rest, This includes love found in Song of Solomon or even in unhealthy places mentioned where sex and sexual immorality become an idol for certain communities. Sometimes we have to get what a thing is not to understand a little bit more about what it is. The last time we visited this theme was in chapter 2 verses 7 to 17, we're not going to look at those tonight, but it would be good for you to recap at your own leisure and cover that again, what we have already studied in those verses. It does not store any personal data. 1 Corinthians 13 is often referred to as the love chapter in the New Testament, and rightfully so. An examination of the five most common nouns shows they reflect the primary subjects of the Bible the main characters in literary terms. Now, we all know well John 3:16, 'For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son', and we've memorised that one - but one I'm sure you have never memorised, let alone exemplified, is 1 John 3:16: 'We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren'. Deuteronomy 6:5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Now the church at Antioch in Syria, and those in Asia Minor were influential. There you have the theory and practice! Give us that spirit we pray, and none other, for His name's sake we ask it, Amen. He who does not love abides in death" (1John 3:11-15). He gives us the application to us: if we are truly children of God the world will hate us too, we will love our brothers - but if we're not, we'll still be dead in our sins, murderers like Cain, and we don't even possess eternal life no matter what we say. Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features. To give the believer full assurance of salvation The simple answer is that he was hostile towards Abel for no other reason than that Abel was right with God and Cain was not. int main() {. He wasn't a child of God, he was a child of the devil! Saint Peter and Saint John Run to the Sepulchre, by James Tissot c. 1886-1894. The supreme act of love, John says in John 15:13, 'Greater love hath no man than this, but that a man lays down his life for his friends'. 'Murder!'. If you are truly a child of God, the world will hate you. Now that is cold language, I believe, which means they aren't getting out of that relationship what they feel is their right. By the numbers, 1 John 4:7-21 is definitely the authority on love for Johns writings. Love is walking in God's commandments (verses 4-6). The true Christian, this is John's point, at that point would be content to suffer and even die rather than cause suffering or pain or death to his brethren. If this is something that you're holding onto, if it is a lifestyle of hate, you need to beware - why? It is not something that revolves around self or self-gratification, but at the very centre - and, ironically we could say, at the crux ('crux' is the Latin word for 'cross', of course) - there is self-sacrifice as the foundation of everything that can be described as love. Christ had ascended to heaven, yet he was vitally real and every present hour by hour in John's life. It may not be the act of murder. That believers could be envious and jealous of one another?' This is the love of Christ. Peter replied three times that he did, but the word he used was phileo or brotherly love (John 21:15-19). The first two times Jesus asked Peter if he loved Him, Jesus used the appropriate form ofagp; Peter responded, with a form ofphila,a lesser form of love, less familiar and less intimate. The first time that love is mentioned in the Bible is in Genesis 2:4-5. Those of John's day unto the present are far removed from the physical Jesus, yet can have as deep or closer relationship spiritually with Him as John had who had actually been with Christ. My friend, what John is saying is that if you have a lack of love towards your brothers it proves an absence of eternal life. This means that in 1 John 4:7-21, love makes up 26.4% of its usage in 1 John and the Gospel of John combined. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. After theresurrection, Jesus appeared to some of His disciples while they were fishing. My friend, if that is your problem, that is a big problem, a big problem. Then there are others who see love as agreeing with everyone, being cordial, harmonious, even with others whose cultures and beliefs perhaps don't agree with yours, but yet you accept them and live and let live - they understand that to be love. That is why you cannot build a society, a community or even a family on love alone. - is it not? It's probably the most popular doctrinal belief of the whole lot. How often does it happen? Rather, love is a commitment to keeping God's word. Tap the title above, next to the arrow, to go to thatlesson with a link back to thispage. Thirdly, you have to have a willingness, once you see the needs and have the means to meet them, to do the deed and help that person. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. In 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, Paul describes what love looks like through a list of characteristics or qualities that characterize it: Love is patient, kind, humble, peaceful, forgiving, generous and selfless (1 Corinthians 13:4-8). The Lord Jesus was commanding them: 'You see the agape love that I have and am going to display for you at the cross, I want you to show that same love to one another'. And that section is 1 John 4:7-21. It always protects, always trusts, always . The third time, Jesus uses a form of phila, to which Peter finally responded with agp. Christ was a man, thus could not have been God. What is it? The women might say: 'I love shopping'. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. 4:2. e. To bring believers unto full assurance of salvation. To do that one would need to look at walking in darkness, loving the world, not keeping commandments, not practicing righteousness, idolatry, etc. I hope that as we preach these messages each of us will honestly seek Gods truth. A brother comes into the meeting, and he's in great need, and somebody pats him on the back and says: 'We'll pray for you brother, the Lord bless you, safe home'. The presence of it should make us know that we have eternal life, but the absence of it proves that we do not have eternal life. Thank you for supporting me in [specific task]. James is saying, just as John, if you close your hand to him, and if you close your home to him, and if you close your heart to him, how does the love of God dwell in you? The word love appears in the Bible hundreds of times, and though it is not the most used word in the Bible, it is one of the central themes and driving forces of Gods Word. It is tantamount to accusing another Christian of being godless, because John says, "He who does not have love does not know God" (1John 4:7-8). Is the word love mentioned in the Old Testament? What John is saying to us again is that here is a test of whether you're a child of God: do you have this love toward your brothers and sisters? (d) A judgment about a person's love should be based on that person's performance, not personality. Thats roughly 1.8 times per verse. Your email address will not be published. Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. Living Waters Church of Hastings, 1302 South Hanover Street, Hastings, MI, 49058, United States. Tonight we're looking again at this great subject of love, and of course this is an epistle to do with assurance and how we can know that we have fellowship with God and His Son Jesus Christ. . How many of us tonight can say, including me: 'Lord, let me live from day to day d. I think it clearly is the message of Jesus, the Word, which is the Gospel, that is the source of life. Now in ancient Greece, in biblical Greek and ancient Greek, there were three or perhaps four definitions for love. That's your problem, isn't it? This does not include hosting or broadcasting the materials on another website, however linking to the resources on preachtheword.com is permitted. Now the false teachers in John's day were advocating that the problem for all mankind is ignorance, they need to learn more, they need to get a special knowledge from God. (a) Love is deeds, not talk. I know they're portrayed as being doctrinal disputes, but most of the time they're just personality struggles fuelled by jealousy, fuelled by envy - and they're singing praise, one on one side of the church and one on the other, and they're sworn enemies as they praise to God with their tongues! love is not the most used word in Bible. To put it into a bit of perspective, love, loved, loves, and loving is used a total of 46 times throughout all of 1 John. Who wrote the music and lyrics for Kinky Boots? This fellowship can be hadthis life eternal is real, purpose and an absolute truth. You can know that you have eternal life, but it's hard to know as you observe the life of people who profess Christianity whether or not they really love their brothers and sisters. The life he is referring to in V2 is the result of the message. Demonstrating brotherly love proves the presence of eternal life. It's not just a grudge against a group of people, or a denomination, or a sect, it could be a grudge against one individual. This means that in 1 John 4:7-21 we find 8.5% of its usage in the New Testament and 3.5% in the entire Bible. This love marks us apart as disciples of our Lord ( John 13:35; 15:12-13 ). This is a blog about how many times love is mentioned in the Bible. Love is one of the driving ideas in the Bible, reflected in its prominent use, but the subjects are more important. If we lived like that today, our Christianity, just like the early church, would be infectious, it would be contagious, it would explode, it would mushroom. Then secondly there is the moral test, we cannot claim to be Christ's-ones and live ungodly lives as some were doing in John's day - the moral test. 2. John 14:21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. How can we say the love of God abides in us? This is his illustration, an illustration of a lack of brotherly love that proves an absence of eternal life. All material by David Legge is copyrighted. Love is obedience to God's commands. O Thou Saviour divine, However, love of country, love of family, even love of self can rally people to powerful action, even if that love is misplaced. Here John is showing us, here is an illustration of the proof of the absence of this love, which proves the absence of this life of God. Now in Genesis 3 we have the story of how fellowship between God and man broke down, and then when we come to Genesis 4 we find that the offshoot of the fellowship between God and man breaking down is that man's fellowship with his fellow man breaks down, and Cain slays Abel. ( Matthew 26: 34, 74; Mark 144:30; Luke 22:34; John 13:38 ). (d) We cannot love God (and therefore be saved) without loving one another. The first Greek word for "love" is eros, which refers to romantic or sexual love. For Christ is love in person, and love, Christ in the soul'. You cannot know the message of life, the Gospel, without knowing the source of life Jesus Christ. We all ought to come to 1 Corinthians 13 ready and willing to be examined by God through Scripture because what Paul says there is no less than definitional about love. John is likening it to murder, to butchery, to slaughter. Besides the obvious words like articles such as the, or conjunctions like and, the most common words in the Bible appear thousands of times. True love is beautifully described in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. : "Love is patient, love is kind. Peter had not yet received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; he was incapable of agape love. If they have something they give freely to the man who has nothing. The church in Jerusalem had been destroyed with Jerusalem in 70 AD and no longer existed. May I add.If you do not accept God, there is not point of going further. If you do not accept the Genesis account of Creation then you cannot trust the Bible as Gods infallible inerrant word and you are left with no Savor and no Salvation. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. What this agape love is, and this agape love is the love of God that has been displayed and manifested for us in Christ, is the love that we ought to show to one another. It can only happen once, once we've given our life we haven't got another one to give, but John is saying we are daily called to live for others, to meet known needs. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The word love is found 33 times in the Epistle. King James Pure Bible Search John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. Love is not a sweet and benign attitude that smiles at "a sin unto death". Indeed Paul said in Galatians 5:23 that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance - but love is the fruit of the Spirit, the Spirit of God. Don't miss part 11 of 1 John: 'Confident Christianity', ------------------------Back to Top But this word 'love' is found fifty times within 1 John, and it's remarkable when you consider that 1 John is only a book of five short chapters - but this theme of love is found fifty times right across those five chapters. Israel - mentioned over 2700 times . Christians used to be arrested, and they were required to give up the names of their associate Christians, and if they didn't they would suffer and die. Chicago: Moody Press) " ( Agape) Love is an attitude of selflessness. I hope each of us would let God shine the light of truth on our hearts and prove our relationship with Him is real. How many times is love mentioned in the Torah? These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. It was transcribed from the tenth recording in his '1, 2 and 3 John' series, entitled "Brotherly Love" - Transcribed by Preach The Word. This is the watch where there is an heightened amount of satanic activity and . #define MAX_SIZE 1000 //define maximum size of the array. Because, just as the Lord Jesus said again in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6 and verse 15, 'If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses'. They've chosen no longer to love the person because, one way or another, they're not getting their way any longer. Greetings to the elect lady (verses 1-3). Here Paul outlines for us what this agape love really is, and he defines it, and that's the word for love that he uses here. 3 Where in the Old Testament does it talk about love? 2. What drives people? It has been "manifested" or it is revealed to us. Was there a reason for Cain slaying Abel? In fact, the Bible says that "love is of God" and "God is love" ( 1 John 4:7-8 ); in other words, love is a fundamental characteristic of who God is. It's something that blesses you, it's something that gives you a buzz, gives you a worthwhile feeling, a sense of gaining and getting - and certainly any concept of self-sacrifice is foreign to the modern understanding of love. Of course, last week we looked at John 8:44 that the devil was a thief and a murderer from the beginning, and here Cain is following in the footsteps of his spiritual father, committing murder. In Matthew 5:20-22, Jesus begins a series of statements that have this pattern: "You have heard but I say to you" Tap the title above, next to the arrow, to go to thatlesson with a link back to thispage. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. Verse 10: 'In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother'. And the Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering; Genesis 4:8. A loveless man, John is saying, is a lightless man - he can't see his way. Now right away we see that love is more than an airy fairy feeling, it is more an act of our will rather than a feeling. 3. People - mentioned over 2200 times "Love" does make the top 100 most used words in the Bible, along with other important concepts from the Bible like Heaven, sin, peace, and Christ. The Bible uses several different words for "love" in the Hebrew and Greek . The mention of 'love' in the Bible varies based on the Bible's version. The apostle John is known to us because of his proximity to Jesus Christ in the gospel accounts; he's one of the inner circle of three - Peter, James, and John - the brother of James, as you well know. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". Now, probably none of us will ever be called to die for someone else, that's very rare these days - at least in Europe. It is the "How c. If the Gospel? How many times are the words lie, lies, liar, liars and lying mentioned in 1 John 4? The command "love one another" appears eleven times in the Bible, all in the New Testament. Are we all mouth, all talkie-talkie and very little walkie-walkie? What John is saying here is that that's not man's chief problem - ignorance - man's chief problem is rebellion and sinfulness in their heart towards God, This is serious stuff. Wonder not then that the serpentine world hates and hisses at you who belong to that seed of the woman that is to bruise the serpent's head'. We are to lay down our lives for our brothers, whoever they are and wherever they hang their hat. Internal evidences indicate it was written around 90 AD after the Gospel of John was written. The New Testament mentions love 179 times, while in the Old Testament, love is mentioned 131 times. bohemianrapcity tiktok age. Where are we there? The most used words are Lord. 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