Perfect Sacrifice

Saturday, December 12, 2015
1 John 4:9-16 KJV

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. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world. 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) How was the love of God manifested toward us? Why? (v.9)
2) How did God demonstrate His love for us? (v.10, 14)
3) Since God so loved us, what are we to do for others? (v.11)
4) How do we abide in God's love and how is it perfected in us? (v.12-13)
5) How do we know that we abide in the love of God and that God abides in us? (v.15,16)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
6) How do you know that you abide in God and that His love indwells you?

LIFE LESSONS
7) Our love for others is evidence that the love of God abides within us.