Greater Friendship Baptist Church SSFFF
Dr. Derrick L. Miles, Pastor
I John 4:5-21
- The “they” spoken of here, are those who __________________________after the flesh. vs5
2. They have no hope, because they base __________________________ that they believe on what they can see with their eyes.
vs 6 3. The Old Testament and New Testament are the sole __________________________by which all of the teaching is to be tested.
vs 7 4. This verse conveys the idea of making sure that __________________________is a habitual practice.
5. Since God's nature __________________________ love as a chief characteristic (see also verse 8), God's children will also reflect that love.
vs 8 6. When you find a person __________________________with hate, you know that he, or she, has never experienced that great unselfish love that God has for each of us.
7. There is a need in every person to be __________________________.
vs9 8. The__________________________ of sin on the cross was the supreme example of God's love, for He poured out His wrath on His beloved Son in place of sinners (John 3:14-16; Romans 5:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 5:1-2).
9. The term emphasizes the _________________________of Christ, as the only one of His kind.
vs10 10. In this verse means appeasement or__________________________.
11. Hebrews 9:5 translates a form of this __________________________ as “the mercy seat.”
12. Christ literally became our mercy seat like the one in the __________________________of Holies, where the High Priest splattered the blood of the sacrifice on the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16:5).
vs11 13. God's sending His Son gives Christians not only the __________________________ of salvation, but obligation to follow this pattern of sacrificial love.
14. God taught us by example the __________________________love that we need to have for each other. If the world today needs one thing, it is love.
vs12 15. Love is the __________________________of Christian witness.
16. Johns argument (in verses 7-12), can be__________________________up as: love originated in God, was manifested in His Son and demonstrated in His people.
17. The more __________________________of Jesus we are, the more love we have for others.
vs 13 18. When Jesus went to __________________________to sit at the right hand of the Father, He promised to send the Holy Spirit to dwell within each of us.
19. The fact that we have the __________________________within us, tells us that He has never left us.
vs14 20. He is our__________________________and our Lord.
vs15 21. We know in our heart, and __________________________with our mouth as verification that we are full of Jesus.
vs16 22. If we are __________________________ with God's love to this extent, it should spring forth from us to others we are in contact with.
23. There is such a __________________________ and comfort that comes, knowing that God's love is always there.
vs17 24. __________________________ is a sign that love is mature.
25. The love that __________________________ confidence also banishes fears.
26. When this love and __________________________ becomes more and more, we become more like Jesus every day.
vs18 27. It is __________________________to please God, if we fear.
28. __________________________is of God.
vs19 29. He loved us, and __________________________ us how to love Him.
vs20 30. When I see this __________________________, I remember what Jesus said, “Inasmuch as ye have done it for the least of these, ye have done it unto me”.
31. When we love our brothers on the __________________________, we are in turn loving Jesus who made them.
vs21 32. One cannot love God without first __________________________his fellow believer.