2023 Evangel Gathering - Friendship and Flourishing for Missions

D evotional 1 A World to Win, 1 John 4.9-10 Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis

We are running out of time. What’s at stake in our salvation? The world.

God’s Gospel workers flourish in friendship for the sake of winning the world.

1 John 4.9-10 (ESV) – In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. [10] In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

I. Love’s Ultimate Manifestation, 1 John 4.9

A. God’s love truly manifest among us, v. 9

B. God sent his Son into the world, v. 9b

C. That we might live through him, v. 9c

II. Love’s Decisive Act, 1 John 4.10

A. Love’s ultimate definition, v. 10a

B. Negatively said: not our love for God, v. 10b

C. Positively defined: that God loved us, v. 10c

D. Jesus, our atoning sacrifice, v. 10d

Love for the Entire World John 3.16 (ESV) – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

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